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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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