Welcome to this page for Mr. Mac’s LBSU-304: Liberal Arts Core Foundations
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Hello & welcome to Liberal Arts 304: Liberal Arts Core Foundations.
Through this class, you will have connections with the old classical education of liberal arts that included science, art, history, politics, and ethics. This course connects with the original Greek education
Introduction to LBSU 304 Course Readings
Most of the links found on this page were found by Simply typing in a title and the word .pdf in Google. This simple action should help students to find the majority of the readings for this class. While the book (these readings) are required for the course, I do understand how it can be hard for some students to get the textbooks before the course starts, or have financial issues in getting the materials. I have included the links to the majority of the course readings in the class for your benefit.
I also know the struggle of moving from MLA formatting to APA formatting so I have provided an example of an APA citation for chapter in book for intext and end references:
Intext:
I know citing from the books is not easy when its in a collected work.
(King, 1963, as cited in Goldthwaite et al., 2020).
(Lincoln, 1865, as cited in Goldthwaite et al., 2020).
(Stanton, 1848, as cited in Goldthwaite et al., 2020).
End reference:
Lee, C. (2020). Coming home again. In Goldthwaite M. A., Bizup J., Fernald A. E., & Brereton J. C. (Eds.) The norton reader : an anthology of nonfiction. (15th ed., pp. 4-12). W. W. Norton & Company.
Week 1: Value of Liberal Arts Education
Week 1 readings from the Norton Reader 15th edition. Make sure you are using the 15th edition of the Norton Reader as some essays in the 14th edition may be missing. Some of these essays/articles may also be found online. (SEE BELOW)
- Chang-Rae Lee, Coming Home Again Coming Home Again.pdf
- Joey Franklin, Working at Wendy’s Working at Wendy’s.pdf
- Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving, Dumpster Diving.pdf Dumpster Diving.pdf – Alternative Formats
- Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple Being a Cripple.pdf
- Jennifer Sinor, Confluences Confluences.pdf
- E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Once More.pdf
- Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook Keeping a Notebook.pdf
Week 2: The Function of Art
- Amy Sequenzia, Loud Hands https://static.s123-cdn.com/uploads/4677160/normal_61b6834c1e3be.pdf
- Rebecca Solnit, How to Be a Writer https://lithub.com/how-to-be-a-writer-10-tips-from-rebecca-solnit/
- Jaswinder Bolina, Writing Like a White Guy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69755/writing-like-a-white-guy
- Jonathan Gottschall, Why Fiction is Good for You https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2012/05/26/jonathan-gottschall-why-fiction-is-good-for-you/
- Philip Kennicott, How to View Art https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-to-view-art-be-dead-serious-about-it-but-dont-expect-too-much/2014/10/01/28f7cdba-459a-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html
- Michael Hamad, Song Schematics
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/staff/davis/decolonising-the-mind.pdf
Week 3: Scientific Reasoning
- Jacob Bronowski, The Nature of Scientific Reasoning, The Nature of Sci.pdf
- Thomas S. Kuhn, The Route to Normal Science – The Route to Normal Science.pdf
- Edward O. Wilson, Intelligent Evolution, Intelligent Evolution.pdf
- William Cronon, 1995, The Trouble with Wilderness
- Sandra Steingraber, Tune of the tunafish.pdf Tune of the tunafish.pdf
- Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of the One-Breasted Women
Week 4: Society & Human Nature
- Gwendolyn Ann Smith, We’re All Someone’s Freak
- Nancy Maris, On Being a Cripple
- Teju Cole, Black body
- Pico Iyer, The Humanity We Can’t Relinquish
- Jose Antonio Vargas, My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
- Tim Kreider, The “Busy” Trap
- Barbara Kingsolver, #MeToo Isn’t Enough
Week 5: Purpose of Studying History
- Jill Lepore, The Question Stated
- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story
- Michael Lewis, from The Blind Side
- Laura Shapiro, Instagram Your Leftovers – History Depends on It
- Eula Biss, Time and Distance Overcome
Week 6: Politics & Government
- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Randall Balmer, Diversity and Stability: The Paradox of Religious Pluralism, Paradox of Religious Pluralism.pdf Paradox of Religious Pluralism.pdf – Alternative Formats
- Stephen Carter, The Separation of Church and State,
Week 7: Ethics
- Mark Twain, Advice to Youth https://www.wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Twain%20Youth.pdf
- Peter Singer, What should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You? Singer_What Should a Billionaire Give_NYT.pdf
- Michael Pollan, An Animal’s Place https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/an-animals-place/
- Without God
- Reg Saner, My Fall Into Knowledge, Saner_my fall into knowledge_1_.pdf
- Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
Week 8: Education in the 21st Century
- Fredrick Douglass, Learning to Read
- William Zinnser, College Pressures
- Gerald Graff, Hidden Intellectualism
- Mike Rose, Blue Collar Brilliance
- Maya Angelou, Graduation
SUPPLEMENTAL STORIES
A modern take on Lars Eighner Dumpster Diving – Week 1
King of ‘Dumpster Diving’ Disgusted After Finding Mounds of Perfectly-Good Discarded Food (msn.com)
John Macomber 