Self & World: The Fate of the City
A syllabus at its best is a contract between the instructor, who commits to using cutting-edge knowledge to challenge students to develop their potential for personal insight and high capacity performance, and each individual student, who commits to stretching herself or himself intellectually and remaining open to what reflective enlightenment this world may offer. Course Description: This course explores the balance in American life between personal happiness and civic virtue, individual freedom and community responsibilities, market capitalism and social justice, and consumerism and citizenship. The implications of these democratic (im)balances for our communities and ourselves in the 21st Century will…
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