February 15, 2011 at 5:45 pm
The Core Journal is now accepting submissions from current students and alumni, to be published in print this May. We’ll consider all kinds of content, including: class assignments interviews with Core authors, faculty, and lecturers creative non-fiction, and expository and personal essays research articles from the Natural and Social Sciences courses original poetry and fiction […]
February 15, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Starting today, students can log-on to the Link to see course listings for the coming fall semester. If you use this information to start planning ahead for Fall 2011, and you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask your discussion leader or to contact Core Program Administrator Liberty Davis.
February 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm
A reminder: The Spring Career Expo will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, February 16, 12-3:30pm in Metcalf Hall in the George Sherman Union. Here you can meet recruiters to help you find internships and jobs.It is open to BU undergrads, graduate students, as well as alumni. Don’t forget to dress professionally and bring your resume! Sponsored […]
February 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Following the tradition started last year, the Core Curriculum is proud to continue in the effort to raise awareness of the value of biodiversity, and how we can positively and negatively affect it. Professor Daniel Hudon provides context for this year’s events on the Ecolympics blog: This year is the International Year of Forests and […]
February 15, 2011 at 12:55 pm
On Friday, February 11th, a crew of Core congregants convened on Boston Common with a few of the faculty, for an evening of frivolity and physical fitness: skating on that iciest of seasonal attractions, the Frog Pond rink. Cocoa was had, our sources report. Happiness levels were uniformly elevated in all participants. Photo courtesy Prof. […]
February 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm
American Interest Online offers a book review with commentary on How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell. The review offers first insight into the peculiarities of Montaigne’s approach to his writings, and then on happiness itself, providing humanities scholars a cohesive argument on […]
February 15, 2011 at 10:47 am
Sexual initiation! Not to be mentioned in our house! . . . I hunted in books, but wore myself out without finding the road. . . . For my schoolteacher the question did not seem to exist. . . . A book finally showed me the truth, and my overexcitement disappeared; but I was most […]
February 15, 2011 at 9:20 am
Prof. Thornton Lockwood writes… In my CC204 lecture on race earlier this month, I raised the issue of the Historian’s fallacy, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (Latin for “after this, therefore because of this”), which consists in attributing a causal sequence between two events based on the fact that one event follows another. My lecture […]
February 14, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Prof. David Roochnik, Core seminar leader, lecturer, and professor in the Department of Philosophy, wrote in to the Core blog to share this thoughts about the production of Ajax Core students and faculty attended this weekend. Interesting production. Brilliant idea to use the video screens for the chorus. But the disconnected speeches they uttered were, […]
February 14, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Professor Steve Esposito, a longtime member of the Core Humanities faculty and associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Classics, writes about a recent Core excursion to a new theatrical version of Ajax… This weekend, 85 Core students and 10 members of the Core faculty attended the very successful production of Sophocles’ […]
