Presentation
Curley On Teaching about Civilizations final.pdf
Department of Liberal Studies, Western Washington University
(2014)
Abstract
This is the transcript of a lecture given at Western Washington University in the Department of Liberal Studies. My lecture will be part memoir, part book review, and part a history of the department in our early days. There will be three sections: ‘The History of Western Civilization’ at the University of Chicago; Great Books and Teaching about Diversity; and Plots and Curricula in the Department of Liberal Studies. My fundamental idea is that a course about a civilization’s history must be a kind of narrative, and that we can evaluate courses by thinking carefully about the relation between forms and purposes in their narratives; that is to say, about their plots.
Keywords
- Western civilization,
- Teaching about diversity,
- Great Books
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 29, 2014
Citation Information
David Curley. "Curley On Teaching about Civilizations final.pdf" Department of Liberal Studies, Western Washington University (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-curley/20/