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A new course: EN 575

November 12, 2010 at 12:28 pm

Students planning their spring 2011 class schedules may want to consider a new course, EN 575: ” Studies in Literature and Gender – Early Modern Women Authors,” TR 2-3:30, with Prof. Christopher Martin. From the course description: The rise of humanism in early modern Europe marked one of the most dramatic watersheds in western history, […]

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Analects of the Core: Franklin on time being money

November 9, 2010 at 1:43 pm

Remember, that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labor, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, rather thrown away, five shillings, besides. […]

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Siddhartha for the December Book Group

November 9, 2010 at 9:15 am

All members of the Core community, especially alumni, are invited to attend the next session of the EnCore Book Group, on December 1, 2010. The group will be meeting at 6 PM in the Alumni Lounge at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, West Entrance, 7th floor. For this gathering, participants will be discussing Hermann Hesse’s Nobel Prize-winning […]

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Free students tickets to the BSO

September 22, 2010 at 11:48 am

Students, be informed: FREE tickets to the Boston Symphony Orchestra are available by using the BSO College Card.  Core students have the special privilege to retrieve a free BSO College Card from the Core office without any additional hassle… so drop by the office whenever you have the chance. The BSO College Card is valid […]

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Michel Houellebecq invokes de Tocqueville

September 22, 2010 at 9:33 am

Not long ago, I read de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. I am certain that if you took, on the one hand, an old-order Romantic and, on the other hand, what de Tocqueville predicts will happen to literature with the development of democracy—taking the common man as its subject, having a strong interest in the future, […]

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Welcome to the Core Blog

September 7, 2010 at 12:39 pm

Welcome to the Core Blog, a hub for information and media related to the CAS Core Curriculum at Boston University. It will be updated regularly, with photo galleries, interviews, links to related reading online, news of events or activities, and other kinds of content that help connect our Core people—prospective, current, and former students—with each […]

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