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WEEK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

IMPORTANT: READ ALL TEXTS FOR THE WEEK BEFORE THE MONDAY SEMINAR. Submit Monday seminar responses by 4:00 pm each week.

Week 1 (Jan. 9)

                        TUESDAY                                                      WEDNESDAY

Lectio

Program Business
Illich, “Ascesis” (handout or click on title for .pdf file)

Yoga

Klein, pp. xii-xiii
Farhi, pp. 22-32: Inquiry 1: Letting the Breath Move You

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

David Whitener
Cajete, Look to the Mountain

Seminar

“Cultivation of Conspiracy,” Challenges of Ivan Illich (hereafter CII)


*THURSDAY: CAB 110 available from 10 am - 12 noon this week. This session will include a required Writing Center workshop.

Week 2 (Jan. 16)

Lectio

Illich, Vineyard
DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 33-35; Inquiry 2: Guiding the Breath

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp.1-5
Boccio, pp. ix-10
Self Evaluation: First Draft
Bill on Illich

Seminar

Illich, Vineyard

Week 3 (Jan. 23)

Lectio

“Education in Light of the Gospel” (Click on title)
Jules Feiffer cartoon
DUE: Response Essay
DUE: Mind Map
DUE: Answers to Five Questions

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 35-37; Inquiry 3: Yielding to the Earth

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp. 5-10
Boccio, pp. 13-23
Bill on Education

Seminar

Teacher’s Way
Two chapters from Thoughts out of School

Week 4 (Jan. 30)

Lectio

Aaron Falbel, “The Mess We’re In: How Ivan Illich Revealed to Me That the American Dream is Actually a Nightmare” (CII) and “Learning, Yes, Of Course; Education, No, Thank You” (Click on title)
DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 38-41; Inquiry 4a:  The Starfish; Inquiry 4b: Navel Radiation in Asanas

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp. 10-15
Boccio, pp. 25-54
Sarah on Postsecularism
Norman O. Brown, selections from Apocalypse & Metamorphosis
Poems

Seminar

Discipline & Punish, selections (click "selections" for .doc/Word document)
Quotations from Foucault and others complementary to Discipline & Punish


Week 5 (Feb. 6)

Lectio

Carpathians
DUE: Individual Learning Contract, first version
DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 42-47; Inquiry 5: Spinal Elongation and Riding the Breath

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Angel at My Table (Campion film)

Seminar

Carpathians

THURSDAY: Peer groups must review mid-quarter self-evaluation drafts. Edited first drafts along with final drafts of evaluations will be submitted.

Week 6 (Feb. 13)
PORTFOLIO REVIEW this week

Lectio

Sexes & Genealogies, “Body against body,” pp. 7-21, “The three genders,” pp. 167-81.
DUE: Mid-quarter self-evaluation. First & revised drafts required. Tips--click here.
Portfolio review checklist--click here.
DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 47-49; Inquiry 6: Foundation

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Lakoff DVD
Klein, pp. 15-20
Boccio, pp. 57-82
Sarah

Seminar

Don’t Think…
DUE: Individual Learning Contract, final version

Week 7 (Feb. 20)

Lectio

Madhu Suri Prakash, “A Letter on Studying with Master Illich” (CII), Illich, “Text and University” and "Computer literacy and the cybernetic dream" (Click on titles)
DUE: Mind Map
DUE: Response Essay

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 49-52; Inquiry 7: Following the Line of the Bones in Half Dog

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp. 20-25
Bill

Seminar

Alfons Garrigós, “Hospitality Cannot Be a Challenge” (CII), Consciousness, pp. 1-65

Week 8 (Feb. 27)

Lectio

Lack & Transcendance, pp. xi-101; Consciousness, chapter 1
DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 59-60; Inquiry 8: The Mover and the Moved

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp. 27-33
Panel: Spiritual Direction
Tikkun, Jan/Feb 2006, esp. section on "Spiritual Activism"

Seminar

Irigaray, “Women, the sacred, money,” pp. 73-88; Consciouness, pp. 66-133.
DUE: Community Service Description


THURSDAY: Peer groups review drafts of final evaluations.

Week 9 (Mar. 6)
DUE: Community Service Reports

Lectio

Rivers North, chs. 1, 2, 6, 13, 22
DUE: Mind Map
DUE: Response Essay

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 77-80; Inquiry 9: Sitting Meditation: Anchoring the Mind in Silence

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Klein, pp. 35-44
Poems from Sarah

Seminar

DUE: Final self evaluation
Rivers North, chs. 1, 2, 6, 13, 22

Week 10 (Mar. 13)
MONDAY: Students are strongly encouraged to attend "Religion and Public Life Community Forum, 6 - 9:30 pm, Longhouse. Click here for Press Release
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
this week portfolio checklist (.doc)

Presentations

 

Presentations
Evaluations

 

Evaluations

 

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