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COL 104
Teachers and Their Teachings: From Socrates to Foucault
COL 104 FA
Crosslistings: HUM 120
Next Offered in 9899 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: Discussion Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA COL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-03-1998
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