Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education

by Flynn, Patrick T.; Kauth, Jean-Marie; Doyle, John Kevin; Lee, Scott J.

• ISBN13: 9780761850175
• ISBN10: 0761850171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education selectively presents the thoughts of scholars and teachers of liberal arts, core text education on how their programs formulate and advance a _value-centered_ education. What emerges from this selection is the wide scope of core text programs underlying the semantic intention of words such as _value-centered,_ _judgment,_ or even _liberal arts_ or _collegiate_ and _colleague._ This volume records the cooperation and thoughtful consideration of faculty from a wide range of higher education institutions - research universities, comprehensive universities, colleges, and community colleges - who have chosen to come together to form such programs across North America. This volume should be of value to any dean, director, or faculty member who seeks to work with colleagues and texts across disciplines to form a coherent undergraduate program of study within general education.

Author Biography

Patrick T. Flynn is a professor of philosophy, Jean-Marie Kauth is an assistant professor of language and literature, and John Kevin Doyle is a professor of business administration at Benedictine University.
J. Scott Lee is executive director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and series editor of ACTC's Selected Proceedings.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Liberal Learning
Liberal Learning, Chicago Style: Reflections on a Founding Tradition in Liberal Arts Education - Plenary Address	p. 3
Plato and the Ideal of Liberal Education	p. 17
John Henry Newman on Liberal Learning and Openness to the Mystery of Creation in The Idea of a University	p. 23
Learning and Life
Identity, Liberal Education, and Vocation - Plenary Address	p. 33
Plato on Educating Rulers	p. 49
Beatrice and Pearl	p. 55
Of Stomachs and Gold Teeth: The Limits of Dehumanization in Elie Wiesel's Night	p. 61
Albert Camus's The Plague: Finding Meaning in a Post-Modern World	p. 69
Memory is Necessary for Freedom	p. 75
Core Texts and Context: Reading Poems of World War I in 2005-2006	p. 83
Expanding the Core Text Canon
Non-Canonical Core Texts Reflections from Experience: Liberal Arts Education in a Columbian Technological University - Plenary Address	p. 91
Sulwan Al-Muta': The Wisdom of Stories for Leaders	p. 105
Core Texts as Critical History: How Studying Works by Dead White Men Can Be Radical	p. 113
Reading Bob Dylan's Chronicles as a Required Freshman Text	p. 121
"Be Not Afraid of My Body": Whitman's Courageous Corporeality	p. 127
The Selective Transformation of Reality in Life of Pi: A Model for Artful Living	p. 133
On the Waterfront: Claude McKay's Banjo as a Core Text of African Diasporan Literature	p. 139
"I Know Now How History Is Made": Wole Soyinka and the Drama of Existence	p. 145
Core Texts in Science
Copenhagen, Bohr, & Heisenberg: How Did We Learn to Love the Bomb?	p. 153
Galileo in Kansas: The Strange Timeliness of the Letter of the Grand Duchess Christina	p. 161
Foundations of the Natural Sciences: "Great Books" Course at Carthage College	p. 167
"Analogy to What is Old": Francis Bacon's Four Idols Today	p. 173
Arctic Dreams and Nightmares	p. 179
Teaching Scientists to See: A Possible Bridge between C.P. Snow's Two Cultures	p. 187
"Rocks of Ages: A Critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Thesis on the Relationship Between Science and Religion	p. 193
Teach the Science Not the Controversy: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, and Intelligent Design	p. 199
Pedagogical Models for Teaching Core Texts
Michelangelo and the Copernican Revolution	p. 211
Teaching Humanities through The Milton Moment	p. 217
Using Core Texts to Promote Students' Critical Thinking Skills	p. 227
The Rule of St. Benedict as a Business Core Text	p. 233
Engaging the Text: Reading the Opening Stanza of Dante's Inferno With Alumni in a "Great Books and Midlife" Weekend Course	p. 241
How To Understand A Primary Source: Undergraduates And Ancient Biography: Appraising Athanasius's Life of Antony	p. 247
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