The wider world of core texts and courses
Subtitle: selected papers from the Association for Core Texts and Courses' seventh annual conference, April 5-8, 2001, at the University of Notre Dame
By: edited by Anthony Brunello, Michael Chiariello, and J. Scott Lee
Contributors: Brunello, Anthony; Chiariello, Michael; Lee, J. Scott, 1948-
Publisher: Association for Core Texts and Courses
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Irving, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781888009255
Subjects: Universities and colleges; Congresses; Curricula; Curriculum planning; Humanistic Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Wider worlds at the core. --; title: The humanities: democracy and the question of authority  -- Jean Bethke Elshtain.; title: Genesis within the context of the ancient Near East  -- Richard Rawls.; title: City centered  -- Isaiah and the city.; title: Ibn Battuta's culture shock  -- Stephen Varvis.; title: Hsun-Tzu in a first-year seminar  -- Jack Furlong.; title: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: using an 18th century Korean autobiography as a core text  -- Michael Seth.; title: Broadening students' horizons: letters on guns and opium in "Eurasia: science and humanities"  -- Jeffrey Brautigan.; title: Contemporary African women writers: "Nothing for the core, there?"  -- Margaret Downes.; title: The place of African literature in the core and Camara Laye's The Dark Child  -- Kathleen Mullaney.; title: Part Two: Science in the core texts. --; title: The world of Descartes  -- Michael S. Mahoney.; title: The difference between teaching history of science and teaching science historically  -- James Donovan.; title: Reading religious metaphor in Charles Darwin  -- Katherine Streip.; title: The narrow road to the deep cosmos: Stephen Hawking, Matuo Basho, and nature  -- Anthony R. Brunello. -- Part Three: Teaching in wider worlds.; title: Kennedy, Achilles, Marx, and Dickens: an amateur teaches the search course at Rhodes  -- Michael Nelson.; title: Itinerarium mentis in Deum: adapting a 13th century text to a 21 century education  -- Michael Chiariello.; title: Teaching the virtue and pleasure of friendship in Augusting and Dante  -- Kim Paffenroth.; title: Teaching religious texts in a core course  -- Frederick A. Niedner.; title: Tearing into core texts: using Thrasymachos' Critique and Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy  -- Randolph Horn. -- Part Four: Voices of transformation; title: Core texts and race relations in the 21st century  -- Joyce A. Joyce.; title: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, "On Civil Disobedience", and "Letters from Birmingham Jail"  -- Terese B. Hartman.; title: How a local work can make core questions home: Winona LaDuke's Last Standing Woman -- Jonathan Steinwand.