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Title: A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum (Isi Guides to the Major Disciplines) by Mark C. Henrie ISBN: 1-882926-42-0 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Decent read, but could be improved...
Comment: I purchased this book in the middle of my freshman year of college and I have tried to select my courses based on Mr. Henrie's recommendations. Overall, I have found this book to be useful for its stated purpose, but there are some shortcomings present. For example, on p.48 Mr. Henrie advises students that "if you must choose between the Old and New Testaments, opt for the New." This is not remarkable in its own right, but compare it to the author's advice on p.105: "If your college offerings have constrained you to take a course on the New Testament rather than a course on the Bible as a whole, you really must proceed to the Old Testament. Not to do so is to succumb to one of the oldest Christian heresies: Marcionism."
Such confusion is not especially helpful, and neither is the author's sometimes arrogant and condescending tone. That said, this book is still worth purchasing. I recommend it especially to future and current college students.
Rating: 5
Summary: a quick, worthwhile read
Comment: At the recommendation of a professor with whom I was mentoring a group of first-year students, I read this book as a senior beginning my last semester at a liberal arts college where I'd had a great deal of freedom in choosing my gen. ed./ core curriculum. I only wish I'd read it my freshman year, when I was beginning my pursuit of a liberal education that ended up being very haphazard with the guidance of an advisor who was a computer science instructor. Henrie presents a clear, easy to follow approach to the core curriculum in a manner that is simple enough to engage the interest of college freshmen. I am recommending it to my high school senior sister.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Remarkable Guide
Comment: This (very) short book is a remarkable find. Most universities today have completely abandoned their traditional core curricula or replaced the core with nebulous "distribution" requirements. This book is a blueprint for college students to use their ELECTIVES to assemble a core curriculum of their own. But it is also much more. Each of the write-ups of the eight recommended courses is really a short Socratic meditation, raising profound questions about central issues in the Western tradition. I suspect that a typical freshman won't realize just how provocative these questions are. But perhaps if they take the prescribed courses and then re-read this book in their senior year they will discover that they've acquired the tools for a lifetime of reflection. It has been years since I went to college, and I know that some of the book's assertions and questions startled me, once again, into reflection.
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Title: A Student's Guide to Philosophy (ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines) by Ralph M. McInerny ISBN: 1882926390 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall ISBN: 1882926536 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Student's Guide to U.S. History by Wilfred M. McClay ISBN: 1882926455 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: A Student's Guide to Literature (ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines) by R. V. Young ISBN: 1882926404 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy by Harvey Claflin, Jr. Mansfield ISBN: 1882926439 Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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