France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1560-1789. Students experience Old France through a wide variety of media including a CD-Rom recreation of the Chateau of Versailles in 1685. Creative homework problems help students discover applications of Calculus to topics in higher mathematics, including Combinator-ics, Numerical Analysis, and Real Analysis. Study includes a trip to Worcester Art Museum to look at its art collection from Greece, a research-oriented tour of the d'Alzon Library's philosophical holdings, and a class dinner and symposium. Students work on a special project on Descartes concerning his proofs for the existence of God.
Students design and completetheir own experiments to answer questions which arise in the course.
The class goal is for students to construct their own theory of writing as a construction of self. Here is Professor David Thoreen's Guide to the Perplexed Student Writer .