TODAY'S
GOALS:
LIBERAL ARTS GOALS
The goal of the required signature courses is to “expose each
entering UT student to the broad goals and possibilities of a university
education.’ Plan II shares this goal as well as this one: to experience
college as students did at the model for Plan II, Oxford, and other
liberal arts colleges whose seals are represented on and in the Tower.
This includes the
[3A] Universal college goal of living in fragments no longer,
learning to think, to connect, to hammer
thoughts into unity.
[3B] This is a central principle of Newman’s Idea
of a University, still the classic text on this subject. Newman’s
model was Oxford. Newman emphasizes again and again the necessity of
synthesis -- connection between the various courses and activities of
university life -- to achieve a strong sense of university education
as the unity it is supposed to be, rather than the fragmented multiversity
it all too often is.
[3C] Our goal is thus also unity, of the self, of the self and others,
of the self and nature, of one subject and another, etc.
[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating
both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
TODAY'S TOPICS: According to Prof. Iverson (who teaches the "weedout" organic chemistry class), , what is “the most important question of all?” “Why Are You at College?”
TODAY'S
ACTIVITIES: , Meditation, Quiz, etc.
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:
ANTHOLOGY READINGS:
THE IDEA
OF A UNIVERSITY
225-236
Flawn, Address to the University, 1984
227-232
Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
233-235
Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
236-237
“Liberal Arts” defined
238-239
Newman and the Liberal Arts
240-241
Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
242-243
History for Dollars
244
Well-Rounded Docs
245 the
new curriculum
RECOMMENDED
READING: All of The Idea of a University
