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Author:
Association for Core Texts and Courses. Conference (9th : 2003 : Atlanta, Ga.)
Title:
The place of core texts : selected papers from the ninth annual conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses : Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2003 / edited by Patrick Malcolmson, Darcy Wudel, and J. Scott Lee.
Publisher:
University Press of America,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
ix, 164 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States--Congresses.
Education, Humanistic--United States--Congresses.
Other Authors:
Malcolmson, Patrick.
Wudel, Darcy.
Lee, J. Scott, 1948-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Free to hear our calling / Kirby Godsey -- Is the classroom a paradise lost or regained? / Paul Hawkins -- Does liberal democracy stifle liberal education?: Nietzsche's challenge to the core / Peter Busch -- Common readers and Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse / Vicki Tromanhauser -- Netscape-induced hysteria and the proper place of the book / Anne Leavitt -- An American conversation: Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass / Thomas W. Jodziewicz -- Guiding curiousity: Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno / Thomas Festa -- Three philosophical heroes: King, Boethius, and Socrates / Nancy du Bois Marcus -- A place for silence in the core text curriculum: Benedict's Rule and the great books dialogue / Christopher Metress -- "The king-becoming graces": linking core courses in a first-year learning community / Ellen Belton -- Wooing tyranny in Shakespeare's Richard III / Christine Cornell -- Ancient historians and modern history: Herodotus and Thucydides on patriotism / Joseph M. Knippenberg -- Imagine that: some latent lessons in Thucydides' History / Robert Good -- Achilleus now: core texts, the good life, and democratic society / Robert T. Miller -- Staging as teaching: The Philoctetes in the liberal arts curriculum / Shirley Kagan -- The necessity of eloquence / Donald Phillip Verene -- The compleat protestant reformation in a single core text: the pedagogy of historicity / Mark Z. Muggli -- Using Thomas More's Utopia in the western civilization survey / Theresa L. Ast -- Sundiata: an epic of old Mali-a case study in diversification of the core / John McClain -- The hungry gene as a core text in a freshman learning community / Mary Kot -- Educating women: classic texts and modern films / Anne Marie Flanagan -- The secret of The secret history, or adding a New York Times best seller to Columbia's core / Lisa H. Cooper -- The reader's Odyssey: teaching Homer, Keats, Tennyson, and Cavafy / So Young Park -- "It doesn't have to be that way": the place of the core and Mike Rose's Lives on the boundary / James Beasley.
ISBN:
076184015X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761840152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)216935849
LCCN:
2008920219
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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