This course has been designed to enable adult students to reflect upon their life experiences within the context of new educational perspectives and goals. Selected readings in the philosophy of education are geared to issues of personal development in the educational experience, past and present. Through shared reflection and class discussion the students learn how to establish continuity between their past educational histories, formal and informal, and the program of studies they have selected. Class procedures are designed toward the development of collaborative modes of learning. This course is the first core requirement for Integrative Majors.
Students work closely with faculty to develop their degree plans.
Cultural perspectives and their impact on the development of narrative are also explored. This course will select and organize multicultural readings and other relevant materials in literature, psychology, anthropology and the arts to enable students to recognize, criticize and critically examine this dimension of narrative in their own quests for meaning in both personal and academic contexts. INTD 212 Self, Society and Institutions Three Credits LA Self -understanding and the quest for personal and professional realization are mediated by a host of social and institutional forms, including the family, social class, the economy, schools and modern governmental and corporate structures. This course will select and organize readings and other relevant materials in sociology, political science and economics to enable students to analyze some contemporary institutional forms and to appreciate the dynamic interaction between such forms and the individual's personal experiences and areas of study. The adult quest for meaning and value assumes mature form in a grasp of the possibilities of the historical moment.