Honors Inquiry 111: Life Examined Recommended books and readings
Fall Semester • 2009
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Honors Inquiry 111: Life Examined Recommended books and readings |
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Fall Semester • 2009 |
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Recommended books (* = highly recommended) |
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| Anderson, Walter Truet. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World. San Francisco: HarperOne, 1992. | |
| * | Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. |
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Cunningham, Lawrence S. and John J. Reich. Culture & Values: A Survey of the Humanities. Alternate Volume. 6th edition. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1990. |
| * | Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1996. |
| Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. | |
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Naugle, David K. Worldview: The History of a Concept. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. |
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| * | Percy, Walker. Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. New York: Picador, 1983. |
| * | _______. The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other. New York: Picador, 2000. |
| * | _______. Signposts in a Strange Land. New York: Picador, 1991. |
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Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1979. (See my Resources page under Miscellaneous for the first edition of Strunk.) |
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Recommended readings |
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highlight = R-drive file
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Week 1 |
>Do you know how to think? (a self-exam) |
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Week 2 |
>Take an ethics survey >Explore The Greeks (interactive site: explore resources on Socrates and Plato) >Movie "Matrix" (highly recommended for comparison with Plato; can be borrowed from AV) >Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Week 3 |
>Weep: Higher Education Among the Nacirema
>Baxter:
Gryphon
>Maslow:
Defense and Growth |
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Week 4 |
>Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed >Shapiro: After Dolly (check out the ethics survey) >Take an ethics survey |
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Week 5 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper)
>For writing better papers, see also Muriel Harris's Prentice Hall Reference Guide, esp. the "Glossary of Usage" in the back.
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Week 6 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper)
>For writing better papers, see also Muriel Harris's Prentice Hall Reference Guide, esp. the "Glossary of Usage" in the back. |
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Week 7 |
>Brian Greene: "One Hundread Years of AUnvertainty" >"Darwin and Humanity: Should We Rid the Mind of God" (theism v. atheism debate between Alister McGrath & Peter Atkins, 13 Mar 2007; or try this or this >Bahnsen-Stein debate (the "great" debate, 1985) >Antony Flew, There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (New York: HarperOne, 2007) >Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (New York: HarperOne, 2007) >Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Touchstone, 1967) |
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Week 8 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Week 9 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Week 10 |
>Movie "Good Will Hunting" (can be borrowed from AV) |
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Week 11 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Week 12 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Week 13 |
>Video: “What is Human Nature?" (can be borrowed from AV) |
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Week 14 |
>Qs to Ask & Propaganda Alert (NB: helpful for reading texts & writing research paper) |
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Dec 9 T |
Reading Day |
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Final week |
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year |
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