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