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ISP 3991: Interdisciplinary Core Seminar

ISP 4760/4860:  Senior Seminar I/II

Adventures in Critical Reading

 

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away--    

                            Emily Dickinson 

 

Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie, 1939)

This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)

Internet Material For The Martin Luther King Workshop

On the Eve of his Execution Speech (Martin Luther King; fragments)

Reflections on the Good Samaritan Parable

Five Levels of Interacting with Texts  

Interdisciplinarity:  What, Where, Why?

The Blind Men and the Elephant (John Saxe)

The Stub-Book (El Libro Talonario) (Pedro Antonio de Alarcón) (not online)

A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)

Elephant Ear (Joan Aiken) (not online)

She Sings me to Sleep with Laughter (Don White)

Open Heart Excerpts (Dalai Lama)

The Star Beast (Nicholas Stuart Grey) (not online)

The Wretched Stone (Chris Van Allsburg)

The Good Example (Vicente Riva Palacio)

The Zax (Dr. Seuss)
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore (John Prine)

Hotel California (The Eagles)

Cat's in the Cradle (Sandra Chapin)

The Dutchman (Michael Peter Smith)

The Fight (Richard Wright) (not online)

The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)

The Mary Ellen Carter (Stan Rogers)

Obedience to Authority

Kiswana Browne (Gloria Naylor) (not online)
Religion and Slavery (Frederick Douglass; 1845)

The Unicorn (Shel Silverstein)

The Drinking Party (excerpts; Plato, more than 2,400 years ago) 

A Civil War between Gays and Blacks (Leonard Pitts, Jr.)

The Two (Gloria Naylor) (on tape only)

Mr. Know-All (W. Somerset Maugham)

Conversations with a Critical Thinker

Invictus (William Ernest Henley)

Leisure  (W. H. Davis)

Imagine (John Lennon)

Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne)

When I'm Gone(Phil Ochs)

Teaching Evaluations 

Lice (Ama Ata Aidoo) (not online)

  Class Gateway      

Moti Nissani's Homepage

Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies