Civic, Liberal, and Global Education: Designing a New First-Year Curriculum

March 28, 2024

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
4:30 - 5:45 PM
Betts Auditorium

Reception to follow.

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How do we teach students the purpose and power of the liberal arts? How do we connect critical inquiry to their present – and future – lives? How do we prepare our students to live in community, and in multiple communities? In this panel conversation, Dan Edelstein will describe the new curricular foundation at Stanford University.

 

Speaker: Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French, Stanford University.

Moderator: David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions. Professor of History. Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Responses from:

  • Yelena Baraz, Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature. Professor of Classics. Director, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.
  • Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology.
  • Esther Schor, John J.F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor. Professor of English. Chair, Council of the Humanities. Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion. Director, Program in Humanistic Studies.