T  Jan 15

Course Introduction

R Jan 17

Interviews

F Jan 18

Last day to ADD or DROP classes via Wingspan or IN PERSON for the spring semester.  Last day for students to elect to Audit courses

M Jan 21

Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.  Offices closed; no classes.

T Jan 22

DUE:  Introduction of a Classmate

R Jan 24

The Self and Education

READ: Who Am I?  preface, “The Allegory of the Cave,” “From Metaphors We Live by,” the “Metaphor, Truth, and Action” and “Truth” handout

DUE:  An annotated sketch of Plato’s cave

M Jan 28

Last day for undergraduate students to select the S/U (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) option for a course or to change a course from S/U to a letter grade.

T Jan 29

READ: “On Communication,” and Bacon’s “The Idols of the Cave” (on my website), Plato’s Apology

DUE:  Learning Journal #1

R Jan 31

VIEW:  The Matrix

T Feb 5

VIEW:  The Matrix

DUE:  Learning Journal #2

R Feb 7

“Documentation”

DUE:  Draft of paper #1; submit to Turnitin prior to class

T Feb 12

Conferences

R Feb 14

Conferences

T Feb 19

The Autonomous Self

READ:  John Stuart Mill’s “Of the Liberty of Thought & Discussion,” and “The Bill of Rights”

GROUP PRESENTATION:  30 minutes on the Mill reading

R Feb 21

READ:  Emerson’s “Self Reliance”

GROUP PRESENTATION:  30 minutes

T Feb 26

The Self & Community

READ:  Myer’s “Ingroup and Outgroup,” Loury’s “Free at Last?  A Personal Perspective on Race and Identity in America,” McIntosh’s “White Privilege:  Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,”

 DUE:  Learning Journal #3

R Feb 28

READ:  “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,”

DUE:  Final draft of paper #1

T Mar 4

Diversity

DUE:  Learning Journal #4

R Mar 6

Diversity

T Mar 11

READ:  “Lady Lazarus” and view “Nighthawks”

GROUP PRESENTATION:  30 minutes

W Mar 12

Last day to withdraw from a spring semester course.  (Automatic N grade is issued.)  Students may not withdraw from a course after this date without documented extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind elected S/U option.  A rescinded S/U will still count toward the maximum of four allowed.

R Mar 13

The Self & Nature

READ:  Ridley’s “The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,” Ridley’s “Human Nature”

GROUP PRESENTATION:  30 minutes  

T Mar 18

Spring Break

R Mar 20

Spring Break

T Mar 25

The Self & The Sacred

READ:  C.S. Lewis’ from “Mere Christianity,” Tillich’s “What Faith Is,”  Hick’s “The Axial Shift to Soteriology,”  Armstrong “Unity:  The God of Islam,”

GROUP PRESENTATION:  30 minutes

DUE:  Draft of paper #2

W Mar 26

Advising for Fall 2008 begins

R Mar 27

Conferences

T April 1

Conferences

R April 3

Conferences

T April 8

READ: Wilson’s “The Planetary Killer,”  Quinn’s “An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit,” Bodian’s “Simple in Means, Rich in Ends,” and Orr’s “Love It or Lose It”

DUE:  Learning Journal # 5

W April 9

Registration for Fall 2008 begins

R April 10

Guest speaker????

T April 15

DUE:  LEARNING JOURNAL REFLECTION

R April 17

READ:  Moore’s “ The Sacred Arts of Life,” Eiseley’s “The Secret of Life”

T April 22

Presentations

R April 24

Presentations

M April 28

Last Day of Classes

T April 29

Study Day

W April 30

Exams begin. Exam schedule available at http://www.winthrop.edu/recandreg/pdf/exams/S08exam.pdf. Winthrop university policy does not accept travel plans or work schedules as reasons to reschedule a final examination.

M May 5

Final Experience 4:00 p.m.

DUE: Paper #3