Coursework

 


 

The University of Chicago

 

2002-2003

Philosophy of History (Robert J. Richards)

Modern Theories of the State (Robert Pippin)

Evolutionary Psychology (James R. Roney)

Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Morality (Robert J. Richards)

Hart and Dworkin: The Nature of Law (Charles Larmore)

Freud Wars: Readings in History and Philosophy (John Forrester)

Subjectivity and Morals: Descartes (Jean-Luc Marion)

Pedagogies of Writing (The Writing Program)

*Decision-Making and Judgment (William Goldstein)

*Metaphysics: Leibniz and Newton (Paul Franks)

 

2003-2004

Anthropology and Literature: ThoreauÕs Walden (Paul Friedrich)

Anthropology and Literature: The Bhagavad Gita (Paul Friedrich)

German Romanticism (Robert J. Richards)

Early American Legal History (William J. Novak)

History and Philosophy of Psychology (Robert J. Richards)

Communicating Knowledge: 16th-21st Centuries (Franoise Waquet)

Reading and Research: History of United States Criminal Law (William J. Novak)

German for Research Purposes (Ashley Passmore)

 

2005-2006

Elementary German Part II

Elementary German Part III

Deutsche MŠrchen

*History of Anatomy of Thought (Cathy Gere)

 

*Audited courses

 


 

St. JohnÕs College

 

The St. JohnÕs curriculum is an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition. The interdisciplinary program includes four years of seminar, four years of language, four years of math, three years of laboratory science, and one year of music. The St. JohnÕs reading list can be found here.

 

In the fall of the Junior and Senior years, Seminar is suspended for two months for Preceptorials, which function something like electives at other colleges. My preceptorials were on various works of Faulkner (taught by AndrŽ Barbera, 1999) and ProustÕs A la recherchŽ du temps perdu (with Michael Comenetz, 2000).