COL 113

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COL 113

Autobiography and Professional Choice COL 113 FA

Crosslistings: HUM 113

Next Offered in 9899 FA

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, Simone
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.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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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