Testimony of jeffrey s. Lehman vice chancellor of nyu shanghai
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- Global Perspectives on Society – 2014-‐15 Syllabus
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Global Perspectives on Society – Final Syllabus 2013-‐14 p. 4
15. Introductory Class of Spring Semester (2/10) (no readings) 16. Women and Men (2/17) a. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Chapter 3 (1929) b. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, pp. 224-‐238 (1977) c. Paul Theroux, “Being a Man,” from Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985) d. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, pp. 21-‐28 (1988)
17. Women and Men (2/24) a. Qasim Amin, The Liberation of Women, pp. 3-‐10 (1899) b. He Yin-‐Zhen, “On the Question of Women’s Labor,” pp. 72-‐91 (1907) c. Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Michael Minkov, Cultures and Organizations, pp. 135-‐145 (2010)
18. Gods and Mortals (3/3) a. The Bhagavad-‐Gita, Barbara Miller Introduction pp. 1-‐12, and Teachings 7 through 12 b. The Snorr Edda – Anderson Translation, excerpts
19. Gods and Mortals (3/10) a. Emile Durkheim, selections from Chapter 2 of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) b. Sigmund Freud, selections from Chapter 3 of Totem and Taboo (1913)
20. Ancient Philosophies and Historiographies (3/17) (guest professor Tom Bender) Readings for General Background: a. Herodotus, Histories, Book I, chapters 1-‐5; Book II, chapters 15, 35-‐58. b. Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (1994 edition), excerpts. c. Plato, The Republic, Book VII, “The Allegory of the Cave.” d. Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book I, Part 1. Readings for Close Reading: e. William McNeill, The Shape of European History (1974), 3-‐17. f. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), 3-‐16.
21. Idealism and Modern Historiography (3/24) (guest professor Tom Bender). a. Charles A. Beard, “History as an Act of Faith,” American Historical Review, 39 (1934), 219-‐31. b. James Kloppenberg, “Objectivity and Historians: A Century of Historical Writing,” American Historical Review, 94 (1989), 1010-‐1030. c. Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere (1986), 3-‐12, 19-‐22, 25-‐27. d. Charles Larmore, “History & Truth,” Daedalus, (2004), 46-‐55.
Global Perspectives on Society – Final Syllabus 2013-‐14 p. 5
22. Religion and Science (3/26) (guest professor David Hollinger). a. The Bible, Genesis, Chapters 1-‐9. b. Who Wrote the Bible?, pp. 54-‐59. c. Benjamin Jowett, selections from Essays and Reviews (1860). d. The Bible, John, Chapter 8, verses 2-‐11.
23. Religion and Science (3/31) (guest professor David Hollinger). a. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, concluding pages (1859). b. International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978). c. Amicus Curiae Brief of 72 Nobel Laureates, et al., in Support of Appellees in Edwards v. Aguillard, excerpts (1986).
MIDTERM EXAMINATION – April 14 24. Parents and Children (4/21) a. Xiao Jing, The Classics of Filial Piety (722), Chapters 1-‐7. b. Guo Jujing, The Twenty-‐Four Paragons of Filial Piety (~ 1300), Examples 1-‐5. c. Fei Xiaotong, From the Soil (1947), pp. 80-‐86.
25. Parents and Children (4/28) a. James Fishkin, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family (1983), pp. 1-‐ 10, 22-‐23, 30-‐32, 35-‐36, 39-‐41.
26. Humans, Other Species and the Environment (5/5) a. Lao Zi, Dao de Jing (~550 BC), Stanzas 1-‐2. b. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949), pp. 129-‐133. c. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962), pp. 5-‐13.
27. Humans, Other Species and the Environment (5/12) a. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, pp. 185-‐191, 200-‐212. b. Gregory Berns, Dogs are People, Too (New York Times, Oct. 5, 2013).
28. Conclusion (5/19) (no readings) FINAL EXAMINATION – May 27
Global Perspectives on Society – 2014-‐15 Syllabus
Course Description
In this two-‐semester course, we will explore a set of timeless questions about how society is, or should be, organized, as those questions have been explored by serious writers from different times and different cultures.
Each week, students will meet once as an entire class with Professor Lehman, once in recitation sections with Global Postdoctoral Fellows, and twice in writing workshops with Writing Faculty.
For grading and administrative purposes, the course will be broken into two elements: Global Perspectives on Society, and Global Perspectives on Society Writing Workshop.
Course Objectives and Outcomes
The course will introduce students to writings that help to define what it means to be “well educated.” By engaging those writings, students will reflect repeatedly on several overarching questions, including how it is we know things to be “true,” whether ethical duties are universal or defined by context, and why it is certain texts have come to be thought of as “great.”
Over the course of the semester, students should enhance their abilities to read carefully and thoughtfully, to consider questions from more than one perspective, to participate in respectful and serious intellectual explorations of difficult questions, and to write essays that make effective and appropriate use of the ideas of others as they present the students’ own ideas to different audiences of readers.
Students will receive two semester-‐hours of credit for Global Perspectives on Society. Grades will be determined by the Global Postdoctoral Fellows, and Professors Lehman, based upon examination performance and class participation.
Students will also receive two semesters of credit for the Global Perspectives on Society Writing Workshop. Grades will be determined by the writing faculty, who will assess your writing exercises, final essay assignments, and class participation.
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