PDP150: Personal Development and the Liberal Arts
Texts

PDP150 Intro

Objectives

Requirements

Policies

Assignments

Activities

 

Note: Texts that you must purchase are indicated with an asterisk*.

Abbey, Antonia, Tina Zawacki, Philip O. Buck, A. Monique Clinton, and Pam McAuslan, Pam.  Alcohol and Sexual Assault.:  Alcohol Research & Health 25:1 (2001): 43-52.  (Find EBSCOhost on the library home page and practice searching for the article on your own.)

Agresto, J.  “The Public Value Of The Liberal Arts.”  Academic Questions 7 (1999, Fall): 40-45. (Available on EBSCOhost)

Barlow, John Perry. “Is There a “There” in Cyberspace?”  Utne Reader 68 (March-April 1995): 50-75.  Available at http://www.eff.org/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/utne_community.html

BC Survey on Alcohol Use.  Available from instructor.

Brooks, David.  The Organization Kid.”   Atlantic Monthly  (April 2001). Available at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/brooks-p1.htm

Browne, M. Neil, and Stuart Keeley.  *Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN 0-13-089134-7  

“The Classroom of the Future.”  Newsweek (29 October 2001). Available at http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5389761&db=afh

Feynman, Richard P. *The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7382-0166-9  

Gerdes. E.  Managing Time in a Liberal Education.: A Parent’s Perspective.”  Liberal Education  87 (2001): 52-58.   (Available on EBSCOhost)

Guterson, David. *Snow Falling on Cedars. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. ISBN: 067976402X  

Hardin, Garrett.  Extensions of `The Tragedy of the Commons.'Science  280, no. 5364, (March 01 1998): 682-4. (Available on EBSCOhost)

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.” 

King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail.  

LaDuke, Winona. *All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 0896085996

Lightman, Alan. *Einstein's Dreams. New York: Warner Books, 1994.  ISBN 0-446-67011-1  

Plato,  Apology.   

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)

Rubenstein, Richard L. *The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future. 1975; New York: Harper Collins, 1987. ISBN: 0061320684

Schaefer, N.  “Campus Crackdown.: Is The Party Over?”  National Review 51 (1999, April 5): 31-33. (Available on EBSCOhost)

Additional materials will be interpolated into this list.

Posted by Dr. Alice Trupe Aug. 26, 2002