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Academic Year 2005/2006

Autobiography and Professional Choice
COL 113 SP

The purpose of this course is to make students reflect upon the decisions, unconscious as well as conscious, that are involved in career choices. It is intended to assist the process of determining professional and vocational options, as well as to encourage greater reflection in all matters; to promote the awareness that no decision need be automatic or imposed; and that decisions appearing to have those qualities are not by virtue of that rendered value-free. To achieve these ends we shall read books and essays by persons (mostly contemporary, or nearly so) representing as wide a range of professional fields as possible. All readings will be autobiographical. Students will write a short (1-page) paper on each weekly reading assignment, and papers will be distributed to be read by the entire class to furnish a major constituent of the material for class discussion.

MAJOR READINGS

Readings will be selected from among the work of such writers as: Maya Angelou, Marc Bloch, Richard Rodriguez, Zora Neale Hurston, Werner Heisenberg, G. H. Hardy, Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Isadora Duncan, James D. Watson, George Orwell, Lillian Hellman, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Igor Stravinsky, and others far less well known.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

One-page paper every week.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Needler,Howard I.   
Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM;     Location: BTFDC314;
Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 20)
SR. major: X   Jr. major: X
SR. non-major: X   Jr. non-major: X   SO: X   FR: 20

Special Attributes:
Curricular Renewal:    Speaking, Writing
FYI:    FYI Seminar
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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