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Undergraduate courses in Structured Liberal Education

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SLE 91. Structured Liberal Education

SLE 92. Structured Liberal Education

SLE 93. Structured Liberal Education

SLE 199. Teaching SLE

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Structured Liberal Education (SLE) Courses

SLE 91. Structured Liberal Education

Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. The cultural foundations of western civilization in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East, with attention to Buddhist and Hindu counterparts and the questions these traditions address in common. Texts and authors include Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, Sappho, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Saint Augustine, and texts from Hindu and Buddhist traditions. GER:DB-Hum, IHUM-1

9 units, Aut (Mancall, M; Greene, R)

SLE 92. Structured Liberal Education

Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. The foundations of the modern world, from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution. Authors include Dante, Descartes, Shakespeare, and texts from Chinese and Islamic traditions. GER:DB-Hum, IHUM-2

9 units, Win (Greene, R; Greenberg, S)

SLE 93. Structured Liberal Education

Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. Modernity as a period in intellectual history and a problem in the human sciences. Authors include Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Woolf, Eliot, and Sartre. GER:DB-Hum, IHUM-3

10 units, Spr (Greene, R)

SLE 199. Teaching SLE

1-3 units, Aut (Mancall, M; Greenberg, S), Win (Mancall, M; Greenberg, S), Spr (Greenberg, S; Greene, R)

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