Today’s Plan:
- Discussing Nathan
- ZeFrank on college
- Tell me about your Freshman Year
Discussing Nussbaum
I am interested in hearing your reactions to her study and her introduction.
ZeFrank on College
Some classic Internetz:
Tell Me About Your Freshman Year
If you haven’t caught on yet, I am interested in knowing how your personal experience of higher education resonates with the texts we are reading. Which of your professors aspired to be a Plato? Which as Cicero? Which a Petrarch? Did you have a professor who loved old buildings? Did you have a professor who pointed out a pee pee pony? Etc.
The impetus of this interest lies in exploring how subjective recollection operates alongside objective representation. That is, our culture circulates many notions of higher education–often contradictory. Which notions most reflect your experience? Which don’t? My hope is, in finding either resonance or resistance to an objective representation, you will develop an authentic research question to which you have a measure of personal investment.
To get started on this possibility, I want you to focus today’s reflection post around one of two possibilities: either focus on one particular claim Nathan makes OR tell me more about how you decided upon your major.
Homework
For homework I would like you to read Chapter 5 “Academically Speaking…” and any 2 other chapters from Nathan’s My Freshman Year. Your blog post should focus on the two chapters you elected to read. Bonus points if you can connect Nathan to any of the theorists we have previously read (or if you catch her explicitly/implicitly referencing one of those traditions).
