The course seeks to stimulate students moral imagination to raise recognition of ethical issues. Meaning A study of the history and ethical implications of the Holocaust. The course includes aspects of Jewish history and anti-Semitism, WWII, and German efforts to eliminate the European Jewish population. Beyond the study of the facts, the course will engage students in critical analysis of the psychological and ethical meaning of these events. As You Like It, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest.
Students share and write stories of their sea year adventures.
Chinese Civilization Introduction to the central aspects of the historical and contemporary culture of China, one of the great non-Western civilizations of the past, East Asia s source of classical civilization, and the last major, contemporary communist state. The course includes analysis of geographical environment, population dynamics, spoken and written languages, classical thought and religion, the traditional imperial order, traditional society and economy, pre-modern science and technology, China s modern encounters with the West, foreign imperialism in China, the rise to power of both nationalist and communist movements, and China s recent experiences under state socialism. An assignment of two of the most important imperial systems in world history Rome and Han China. Each empire decisively shaped the subsequent civilization of Europe and East Asia. Major topics or themes include politics and government, military strategy and tactics, ideological and religious rationalization for empire, and the processes by which imperial systems rise and fall.