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...best argument in favor of Government 1060 comes from the course's own syllabus: Book VI of Plato's Republic: ¨Those who belong to this small class have tasted how sweet and blessed a possession philosophy is.¨ (¨This small class¨ indeed – 31 undergraduates enrolled in the class this past fall, and 19 undergrads signed up in 2004, when Richard Tuck led the course. By comparison, the average size of a Moral Reasoning core course last year – and Government 1060 now counts for MR credit...
...probably sleep through them (yes, they’re at noon) and still do fine. This course will also save you some serious cash: buy the sourcepack to memorize author names and prep for IDs, but otherwise some handy SparkNotes will do the trick on the rest of the syllabus. As anyone who’s not a neophyte to the Core, true academic challenge comes only by taking cross-listed departmental courses. Don’t be silly—skip them. But for the intellectually challenging amongst you, English 177, “Art and Thought...
...analysis, and geometry, or topology. After this, many students take graduate courses. The professors who teach each course change almost every year, and many junior professors are only around for two years. This means that the CUE guide is often completely unhelpful, as a new professor means a new syllabus and often a different textbook for the same course. Tutorials—seminars in most other departments—are taught by grad students in their area of research. As such, they have a high student-teacher ratio, high grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies...
...Philosophical Analysis.” Then—as is the case now—its proposed coursework centered around political philosophy as a basis to answering ethical questions. The readings for the different courses often overlap, with J.S. Mill, Plato, and Aristotle appearing as perpetual syllabus favorites. Expect to write two to three papers, a midterm, and a final (sometimes even a final paper). Lectures can be horribly boring, so your first exercise in reasoning is choosing which course to take.MR’s behemoth, MR 22, “Justice,” taught by Michael Sandel...
...keep it real—and keep a backup in case that job at Goldman is too tempting to turn down come senior spring.What else? Social Analysis 66, “Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States” has decently interesting subject matter, but the syllabus gets bogged down in numbers-based poli-sci essays. Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language” seems like a cool introduction to linguistics, which is a really underrated field; theories of language can teach you a lot about life. Social Analysis 43, “Psychological Trauma?...