M. Neil Browne & Stuart Keeley, Asking the Right Questions (Prentice Hall)
ISBN 0-13-089134-7
Plato, Apology. Available at: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
Alan P. Lightman, Einstein's Dreams (Warner Books) ISBN 0-446-67011-1
Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
Richard Rubenstein, The Cunning of History (Harper Collins) ISBN: 0061320684
Richard Feynman, The Meaning of it All (Addison-Wesley) ISBN 0-7382-0166-9
Two additional Units will have required texts, but the choice of material to be used is open to the professor
*****UNIT ON CHARACTER AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY: CITIZENSHIP IN A PLURALISTIC COMMUNITY
A text is required at this point in the syllabus, but the specific work may be chosen by Professor.
Appropriate choices would be works that challenge students to explore the conflicts between diverse ethnic /cultural identities and the dominant culture. The text should underscore that critical thinking requires people to reflect on their personal identity in light of individual choices, accountability, and responsibility to a broader social and political context.
Recommendations include:
Gish Jen: Mona in the Promised Land
Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Margot Adler: Heretic's Heart
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost
Shusaku Endo: Silence
Beaty: The White Boy Shuffle
******UNIT ON CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
A text is required at this point in the syllabus, but the specific work may be chosen by Professor.
Appropriate choices should demonstrate critical thinking about current issues in public policy while highlighting students' responsibilities as national and global citizens. Most texts would likely consider environmental issues in light of individual freedoms and communal obligations.
Recommendations Include:
Mark Kurlansky, Cod
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Brooks, David. "The Organization Kid." Atlantic Monthly (April 2001): 16 pp. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/brooks-p1.htm
Agresto, J. "The Public Value Of The Liberal Arts." Academic Questions 7 (1999, Fall): 40-45. (No Link Established. Find EBSCOHOST on the library home page and practice searching for the article on your own.)
Josefson, J. "Learning is Not Fun: Reflections on the Liberal Arts and Living Your Best Life" http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/josefson'slearningisnotfun.htm
Ross, S.E., B.C. Niebling, & T.M. Heckert, Sources of stress among college students." College Student Journal 33 (1999): 312-318. (Available on EBSCOhost)
Gerdes. E. " MANAGING TIME IN A LIBERAL EDUCATION.: A Parent's Perspective." Liberal Education 87 (2001): 52-58. (Available on EBSCOhost)
Barlow: "Is There a "There" in Cyberspace?" Utne Reader 68 (March-April 1995): 50-75.
Hardin, Garret. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. available at: http://dieoff.org/page95.htm with accompanying discussion "The Tragedy Of The Commons Revisited"
Hardin, Garrett; "Extensions of `The Tragedy of the Commons.'" Science 280, no. 5364, (March 01 1998): 682-4. (Available on EBSCOhost)
Suggestions for expanding section on the Liberal Arts and Intellect:
Gregory Dunn, "C. S. Lewis on Liberal Arts Education" http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v7n2/dunn.html
J.S. Mill, "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion" On Liberty http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/John Stuart Mill.htm
Available on Infotrac:
Martha Nussbaum, "Cultivating Humanity" Liberal Education 84.2 (1998): 38ff.
Richard Hersh, "Generating Ideals and Transforming Lives: A Contemporary Case for the Residential Liberal Arts Colleges" Daedalus 128 (1999): 173ff.
Peter Gomes, "Affirmation and Adaptation: Values and the Elite Residential College," Daedalus 128 (1999): 101ff.
Clark Lemons, "Public Presentation and the Liberal Arts" Liberal Education 87.4(2001): 50ff.
Roger Herman, "Liberal Arts: The Key to the Future" USA Today (Magazine) 129 (2000): 34ff.
