last updated: 1/21/08
E603B 08
"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset — we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'”
Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml
‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]”* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
"If I Had a Hammer .... I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters/ All over this land” words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html
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Writing Projects as of now:
P4 Leadership: What is Your Passion?
P5 Leadership: What is Your Vision?
READINGS:
select the date to go to the detailed schedule
Jan. 15 final/best lesson of the freshman year
Jan. 17 RDB Bhagavad Gita
Jan. 22 RDB Bhagavad Gita
Jan. 24 ODB Yudof, topic of religion at state university; Hinduism compared to Jainism, Buddhism
Jan. 29 ODB Isaiah, Psalms, Virgil, Socrates,
Jan. 31 RDB Jesus
Feb. 5 RDB Koran
Feb. 7 DSouza
Feb. 12 DSouza
Feb. 14 DSouza
Feb. 19 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces + Jung: personality types
Feb. 21 Ego vs. Higher Cause, Sympathetic Imagination; Arnold, Pattern of Conversion, Bob Dylan, Browning Dramatic Monlogues
Feb. 26 Gawain as new kind of hero?
Feb. 28 Littlefield House
Mar. 4 King, Gandhi, and Ahimsa;……… review Jesus + Compassion
Mar. 6 Ram Dass How Can I Help?
Mar. 18 Ram Dass How Can I Help?
Mar. 20 Compassion in Medicine pp. ix-90
Mar. 25 Compassion in Medicine pp. 91-176
Mar. 27 Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye: Compassion, Racism, Judging by Appearance,
Apr. 1 Bluest Eye II Narrator/Writer as hero
Apr. 3 Gender and Diversity: Asian- and Hispanic-American Student Autobiographical Essays
Apr. 8 Woman Warrior I
Apr. 10 Woman Warrior II
Apr. 15 Oleanna
Apr. 17 Oleanna
Return to Nature; Scientist and poet as heroes:
Apr. 22 Hopkins, Emerson
Apr. 24 TMM. Darwin evolution 1
Apr. 29 Darwin and Tennyson: Evolution II
May 1 Darwin and the Alice books
DETAILED SCHEDULE
A=603A anthology
Jan. 15
award ceremony;
final/best lesson of the first semester;
changes in DBs? suggestions:
Doa: I love writing DBs, but I think it's stupid that we don't get to really discuss them. When Ryan lead, we got to do that, and I'd just like to see more discussion about what we write.
Will Benter: I agree with Doa in that we should discuss our DB's more. I think we could learn a lot more about the topics that way.
Andrew : In response to Will and whoever he was responding to, I agree with the idea that we need to ponder our discussion board posts more in class. This may mean decreasing the number (and I'm not just saying that because I never do them :-D). Additionally, to discuss them in class puts social pressure to come to the discussion with something and will increase the likelihood that we will read the material.
Ryan's discussion plan: Everyone, please find a quote about nature from one of the books on your shelves. Don't have any books, go to http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page to search for a free download of 1000s of books. Be sure to make sure that the novel was not written by and American, after all this is World Literature.
DOA: I didn't mean Ryan's nature quote assignment, rather I was referring to his class-style. It was very open, and the questions were not arbitrary, they actually required us to discuss our personal DBs.
Jan. 17 RDB Bhagavad Gita 1 December and January birthday celebrations: Julie C. December, Doa, Jan. 17; Avni Jan. 19; John Jan. 31
student DB images:
Jan. 24 ODB* Religious Literacy.
(*=Optional unless you want to an alternative project. To do qualify for an alternative project you must do all DBs, Required and Optional)
Alex Grey's image of meditation
(Wiley Jennings)
compassion in Hindi (Crystal Law)
Older Eastern Religions.
273-284 “Religious Literacy,” with test
285-287 “Faith on the Quad”
288 “God and Freshmen”
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289-290 “Asian Exclusion Act”
114-8 “Ahimsa,” Gandhi’s tradition
119 Gandhi biography
291-303 “Jainism and Ecology”
303-306 “Hinduism and the Surabhi Cow”
307-309 “Buddhism”
A771-773 Neo-Confucian Manifesto
A1004A-F HINDU GODDESSES
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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A767-768 Isamu Taniguchi
A769 Taniguchi, "The Spirit of the Garden"
A770 Reading “The Spirit” in the 21st century
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Jan. 29 Isaiah, Psalms, Virgil, Socrates
60-69 Isaiah, selections, KJV
70-71 Psalms, selections, KJV
72 Virgil, introduction
73-76 Virgil, Eclogue IV
_____________________________________________________________________________Jan. 31 Jesus
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Feb. 7 DSouza Julie P's birthday
Feb. 12 DSouza
Feb. 14 DSouza
Feb. 19 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces + Jung: personality types
Feb. 21 Ego vs. Higher Cause, Sympathetic Imagination; Arnold, Pattern of Conversion, Bob Dylan, Browning Dramatic Monlogues
Feb. 26 Gawain as new kind of hero?
Feb. 28 Littlefield House
Mar. 4 King, Gandhi, and Ahimsa;……… review Jesus + Compassion
Mar. 6 Ram Dass How Can I Help?
Mar. 18 Ram Dass How Can I Help?
Mar. 20 Compassion in Medicine pp. ix-90
Mar. 25 Compassion in Medicine pp. 91-176
Mar. 27 Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye: Compassion, Racism, Judging by Appearance,
Apr. 1 Bluest Eye II Narrator/Writer as hero
Apr. 3 Gender and Diversity: Asian- and Hispanic-American Student Autobiographical Essays
Apr. 8 Woman Warrior I
Apr. 10 Woman Warrior II
Apr. 15 Oleanna
Apr. 17 Oleanna Andrew's birthday
Return to Nature; Scientist and poet as heroes:
Apr. 22 Hopkins, Emerson
Apr. 24 TMM. Darwin evolution 1
Apr. 29 Darwin and Tennyson: Evolution II
May 1 Darwin and the Alice books
Summer birthdays: Margaret May 5; Danielle: May 17; Charlotte: May 29; Hannah: June 17; Crystal August 7;
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