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Part One: Wider worlds at the core. -- The humanities: democracy and the question of authority -- Jean Bethke Elshtain. Genesis within the context of the ancient Near East -- Richard Rawls. City centered -- Isaiah and the city. Ibn Battuta's culture shock -- Stephen Varvis. Hsun-Tzu in a first-year seminar -- Jack Furlong. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: using an 18th century Korean autobiography as a core text -- Michael Seth. Broadening students' horizons: letters on guns and opium in "Eurasia: science and humanities" -- Jeffrey Brautigan. Contemporary African women writers: "Nothing for the core, there?" -- Margaret Downes. The place of African literature in the core and Camara Laye's The Dark Child -- Kathleen Mullaney. Part Two: Science in the core texts. -- The world of Descartes -- Michael S. Mahoney. The difference between teaching history of science and teaching science historically -- James Donovan. Reading religious metaphor in Charles Darwin -- Katherine Streip. The narrow road to the deep cosmos: Stephen Hawking, Matuo Basho, and nature -- Anthony R. Brunello. -- Part Three: Teaching in wider worlds. Kennedy, Achilles, Marx, and Dickens: an amateur teaches t

Author

Anthony Brunello, Michael Chiariello, and J. Scott Lee

Publisher

Irving, TX: Association for Core Texts and Courses

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781888009255