|  | | | | | WEEKDAY SCHEDULE FALL 2009 Humanities 1
| Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Credits
(IIT HUM 100 Level) | A | Harold Stone | MWF | 10:00am - 11:20am | | B | Harold Stone | MWF | 11:30am - 12:50pm | | C | Harold Stone | MWF | 1:45pm - 3:05pm | In this first course in the Humanities sequence, you will learn about the elements and forms of the musical and visual arts while developing active listening and viewing skills. Through conversation about famous art works, pieces of music, and various texts that deal with art and creativity, you will become more attentive to and more articulate about art.
Readings include texts by Plato, Balzac, Kafka, Steinberg, and Alberti. | Humanities 3
| Section | Instructor | Days | Time | | 5 Credits | A | Don Moon | MTF | 11:30am - 12:50pm | | B | Albert Fernandez | MWR | 3:15pm - 4:35pm | Philosophy and theology are formally introduced in this third Humanities course. You will build on the reading skills you developed in Humanities 2 as you delve into some of the Western tradition’s most influential and significant texts, ranging historically from the ancient Greeks through the 17th century. Through close reading and collaborative analysis, you will learn to understand these texts on their own terms and to situate them within your own developing intellectual framework.
Readings include texts by Plato, St. Augustine, St. Teresa, and Descartes in addition to the Bible.
(Prerequisite: Humanities 1 and 2) | | Integrative Studies 2 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Credits
(IIT *) | A | Bev Thurber | MRF | 3:15pm - 4:35pm | | B | David Lukens | MW {2 Hours} | 3:15pm - 5:15pm | Integrative Studies 2 is devoted to the development of an understanding and appreciation of mathematics. The student studies the axiomatic method by examining various mathematical and geometrical systems throughout written history. Through involvement in such mathematics the student learns accuracy in the use of terms, rigor in reasoning, and precision in expression. The development of these basic intellectual skills is another principal aim of the course.
Readings include texts by Euclid, Aristotle, Descartes, Einstein, and Lobachevski. | | Integrative Studies 5 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | | 8 Credits | A | Eileen Buchanan | Tue {3 Hours} | Tu: 10:00am - 12:50pm | Integrative Studies 5 & 6 are designed as a unified, full-year sequence to be taken in the student’s last full year of residence. Further, they are intended to emphasize the essential unity of the Shimer curriculum. The works in this sequence are chosen for their historical significance and their potential for integrative analysis. They are arranged chronologically in order to demonstrate their historical relationship to one another.
Readings include works of unknown authorship like Innana, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Bible, in addition to texts by Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Virgil, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Dante.
(Prerequisite: Senior Status) | | Natural Sciences 1 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Natural Sciences credits (IIT Equivalent: Evaluated on individual basis)
(IIT *) | A | Don Moon | MTF | 10:00am - 11:20am | | B | Stuart Patterson | MWR | 3:15pm - 4:35pm | In Natural Sciences 1 you will learn to think and reason about matter in ways that scientists have done in various historical periods. Beginning with the Ancient Greek philosophers, you will puzzle over why Thales believed that matter is composed of a single element while Empedocles understood there to be four. After surveying ancient and modern ways of thinking about matter, you will consider the logic behind our contemporary model.
Readings also include texts by Aristotle, Lucretius, Pascal, Bacon, Lavoisier, and Cannizzaro. | | Natural Sciences 2 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Natural Sciences credits (IIT Equivalent: Evaluated on individual basis)
(IIT *) | A | Jim Donovan | MTR | 10:00am - 11:20am | | B | Jim Ulrich | MRF | 10:00am - 11:20am | Natural Sciences 2 explores the interaction amongst living organisms. Consideration is given to the level of genetic units within the organism, the level of species, the environmental level, and the level of human concern. The concept of evolution provides a groundwork for this inquiry into biological organization.
Readings include texts by Aristotle, Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel, and Goodall. | | Natural Sciences 3 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Natural Sciences credits
(IIT *) | A | Bev Thurber | MRF | 10:00am - 11:20am | | B | Jim Donovan | MTR | 11:30am - 12:50pm | Within the context of the physical sciences, this course explores the nature of scientific explanation. We examine the development of the theories of falling bodies, gravitation, light, electromagnetic forces, and relativity. The investigation of physical theories leads the student to attempt to answer such crucial scientific questions as these: What phenomena need to be explained? How are they explained? What constitutes a satisfactory explanation? What is the nature of physical reality?
(Prerequisite: Natural Sciences 1 and Integrative Studies 2) | | Social Sciences 1 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | 5 Social Sciences credits (IIT Equivalent: SOC 200-level)
(IIT SOC 200 Level ) | A | Ann Dolinko | MWF | 10:00am - 11:20am | | B | Ann Dolinko | MWF | 11:30am - 12:50pm | | C | Barbara Stone | MWTh | 3:15pm - 4:35pm | | D | David Shiner | MWTh | 3:15pm - 4:35pm | In the first course of the social sciences sequence, you will read about the relationship between human beings and society from a variety of perspectives. How do cultural norms about gender and race, for example, shape who we are? The class will discuss foundational works in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and will explore topics ranging from the notion of the self to the question of human freedom.
Readings include texts by Mead, Benedict, Freud, Marx, DuBois, and Durkheim. | | Social Sciences 3 | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | | 5 Social Sciences credits | A | Stuart Patterson | MWR | 1:45pm - 3:05pm | | B | Stuart Patterson | MWR | 5:30pm - 6:45pm | In this course you will learn about influential movements in political and social thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussions will focus on approaches to understanding the social, economic, and political structure of the modern world, and you will be able to explore the usefulness of these approaches in analyzing contemporary political reality.
Readings include texts by de Tocqueville, Hegel, Marx, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Arendt.
(Prerequisite: Social Sciences 1 and 2) | | I Ching | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | | 3 Humanities Credits | A | Ron Kidd | MW | 5:30pm - 6:45pm | Among the Chinese classics, the I Ching stands dauntingly alone.
We will first approach the text through historical introductions, so we can spot and appreciate the various layers. We will read some of the “Ten Wings” as essays in their own right. And we will read some of the more coherent and consecutive hexagrams’ line statements. After some weeks, we will examine the reconstructions late 20th century scholars have made of what may well be the “original” Chou-i.
Finally we will return to the multilayered text and pose questions to it. | | Feminist Theories | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | | 3 or 5 Humanities or Social Sciences credits |
| Ann Dolinko | MWF | 1:45pm - 3:05pm | | In this course we will study how the gender roles of women and men are socially constructed. We will begin this exploration by examining the anthropological and historical roots of patriarchy. We will then read some early documents in the feminist movement, after which we will examine various contemporary feminist theories. We will compare diverse approaches and apply their respective insights to an analysis of contemporary society. | | German for Reading I | Section | Instructor | Days | Time |
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| Barbara Stone | MWR | 11:30am - 12:50pm | | This course will introduce students to the basic grammatical structures of the German language. It will prepare students for the reading of original German texts in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. No prior knowledge of German or systematic study of any other language is expected. | | |
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