Authors: Brendan Hogan • Philip Kain On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to exchange…
Published May 2, 2016 by am2759
Published April 18, 2016 by am2759
Author: Peter Diamond Teaching intellectual history from a global perspective requires, at a minimum, transcending national or regional boundaries. But what else might a global perspective entail? Adding non-Western works…
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Published April 4, 2016 by am2759
Authors: Philip Kain • Roberta Newman On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to…
Published March 21, 2016 by am2759
Author: Sean Eve The Problem of Context Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube: these are not simply among the dominant expressive outlets of our culture, they represent communicative technologies that have superseded…
Published March 20, 2016 by am2759
Author: Sean Eve I hope you enjoy the photo essays below. These represent the first piece of graded work submitted in one of my freshman writing classes, and are informed…
Published February 22, 2016 by am2759
Author: Fred Schwarzbach The imperative to “go global” is universal these days – and among the many strategies to be global are classes that incorporate an international travel experience. Yet,…
Published February 1, 2016 by am2759
Authors: Peter Diamond • Philip Kain On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to exchange views…
Published December 7, 2015 by am2759
Author: George Baroud In teaching ancient literature, I recognize that the substance of the material, because it is foreign temporally as well as culturally, can challenge first-year students; the task…
Published November 12, 2015 by am2759
Author: Stefanie Goyette An image from Plato’s Phaedrus: the lovely Phaedrus invites Socrates to walk with him outside the walls of Athens and to read the text of…
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Published November 10, 2015 by am2759
Authors: Philip Kain • Sean Eve On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to…