December 3, 2012 at 11:41 am
In his recent work Gilgamesh: An Epic Obsession (http://bit.ly/TDl2BN), Theodore Ziolkowski takes a look at the ways in which the epic has manifested into our literature, art, music, and popular culture. The students of CC101 experienced this through David Ferry, whose translation of Gilgamesh they read this semester. David Ferry has also written: Bewilderment (http://bit.ly/RwrwnD), which […]
November 29, 2012 at 5:10 pm
On November 20th, Professor Greg Fried (Suffolk University, Department of Philosophy), a long-time friend and colleague of the Core, lectured to the students of CC101 about Plato’s Republic. Here we offer an excerpt from his lecture: MORPHEUS: Do you want to know what it is, Neo? The Matrix is everywhere; it’s all around us, even now in […]
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October 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm
An excerpt from The New Yorker magazine on “The Woman Reader” by Belinda Jack. In the history of women, there is probably no matter, apart from contraception, more important than literacy. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, access to power required knowledge of the world. This could not be gained without reading and writing, […]
September 27, 2012 at 10:52 am
Earlier this week, Prof. Eckel lectured to the students of CC101 on the Book of Exodus. As an introduction to the topic, he showed the clip above from the 1956 feature film, The Ten Commandments.
September 25, 2012 at 10:52 am
Prof. Eckel, during his lecture on the Book of Exodus this morning for the students of CC101, showed a clip of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking on the night before his assassination in 1968.
March 29, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Pre-reg advising sessions are available for undeclared students in Core courses who would like to talk over requirements, degree concentrations, and other questions with a Core faculty member before they meet their CAS staff advisor and receive a registration code. Although each faculty member has an academic specialization — and you’re welcome to come to […]
October 5, 2011 at 4:16 pm
“Reason and heart will give you words, Telemakhos; and a spirit will counsel others. I should say the gods were never indifferent to your life.” – Homer, from The Odyssey Book III, lines 31-33. Translation by Robert Fitzgerald.
April 8, 2011 at 10:47 am
Music and Ideas, from Mozart to the Jazz Age Fall 2011 T, Th 3:30-5:00 Professor James Johnson This interdisciplinary seminar (HI 426) offered by Professor James Johnson of the History Department explores the cultural context of major works of music, from Don Giovanni and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Each week […]
February 8, 2011 at 5:52 pm
The faculty in Core Social Sciences have introduced an exciting new version of CC204 (second-semester Social Sciences) on the theme of “Inequality.” Prof. Thornton Lockwood provided the following description of the course: Over the last two years, major changes have been going on with the second semester of Core Social Sciences. In the fall semester […]
November 23, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Prof. Christopher Ricks lectured today for the students of CC201, on the subject of the John Milton. He is the author of Milton’s Grand Style (Oxford University Press, 1978). In the spring semester, he often lectures on the English Romantic poets. Students, with their Kerberos password, can access his packet of selected readings here. Today’s […]
