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Academic Year 2000/2001
Teachers and Their Teachings: From Socrates to Foucault
COL 104 FA
This course is about teachers and students and powerful ideas; it is also about maturation, longing, power, deception and self-deception. We will be asking important questions about the educative process, examining
different models of what that has
meant for those who presume to teach, as well as for those who crave deeper understanding, from the time when Socrates provoked the young with unsettling questions to Michel Foucault's teaching that the expression of
sexuality is socially constructed.
MAJOR READINGS
David Mamet, OLEANNA Allan Bloom, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Plato, REPUBLIC The Gospel according to Saint Matthew, selections from Corinthians and Romans and Acts. John Holt, FREEDOM AND BEYOND
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, EMILE Friedrich
Nietzsche, "Schopenhauer as Educator", and selections from ZARATHUSTRA Michel Foucault, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH, and "The Subject of Power."
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
NO EXAMS - WRITINGS
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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