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Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

FIRST MEETING: Noon, Tuesday, September 26, Sem2, E4115.

Week 1 (Sept 25)
THURSDAY: Writing workshop (mandatory attendance), 10 AM - 12 noon, Lib 0406.

                        TUESDAY                                                      WEDNESDAY

Lectio

Program Business
Complete Self Evaluation (see handout)
and Academic Advising self-assessment form.
Divide into groups
Yoga

Arrive on time & wear comfortable clothes.
Bring yoga journal & color pens/markers/crayons.
Farhi, pp. 3-20; Boccio, pp. ix-xii & xviii-xxvi.

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Excerpt from "The Corporation" (in-class)
Illich, "Ascesis" (download from here)
Hafiz, "Pulling out the chair"

 
Seminar

Reality & "Art" and "Peter Kingsley and the Discomfort of Wisdom" (download from here)
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. vii-xvi.

Week 2 (Oct 2)

Lectio

Lectio Selection

DUE: Mind Map
Buber, Meetings, & Negelev's Notes
Ethnography of thinking
Yoga

Farhi, pp. 22-35; Boccio, pp. 1-7 & 8-10.
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Bamford, "Thinking as Prayer: The Way of Lectio Divina, Divine Reading," Parabola Fall, 2006 (handout or online)

Bill & Sarah on pedagogy. Please read Peter Kingsley's "Knowing beyond knowing: The Heart of the Heremetic Tradition"

"Voices" from Sarah's lecture.

 
Seminar

Buber, Bamford, Reality & "Art"
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 10-27.
DUE: Answers to the Five Questions

Week 3 (Oct 9)

Lectio:

Lectio selection

DUE: Mind Map
Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text
DUE: Response Essay #1

Yoga

Miller, pp. 1-29.
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

 
Seminar

Illich, Vineyard & “Ascesis”
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 28-47.

Week 4 (Oct 16)

Lectio

Lectio selections (3 groups)

DUE: Mind Map
Karen Armstrong, Buddha, pp. xi-97.
Empire of the Senses, chapters 3, 4, 5, 16, and either 9 or 12. Pages 397-406 were to have been read before writing last week's essay.

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 35-41; Boccio, pp. 13-23.
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Bill on Foucault
Individual project presentations
Seminar

Foucault, Technologies of the Self, introduction, 1, 2, 6, and one other chapter of your choice.
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 63-71.

Week 5 (Oct 23)
Portfolio review during Monday seminar.
DUE: Mid-quarter self evaluation (see handout), with portfolio.

Lectio

DUE: Mind Map
Cayley, Rivers North of the Future, chapters 10, 13, 18-22. You'll find pp. ix-44 a helpful introduction.

Lectio selections (2 groups)
Yoga

Farhi, pp. 42-47; Boccio, pp. 25-31.

Bring BODY MAPS
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Individual Project Presentations

Seminar

Individual Project presentations

Week 6 (Oct 30)

Lectio

DUE: Mind Map
Harry Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love

Lectio selection
Yoga

Farhi, pp. 47-49; Boccio, pp. 33-49.

Bring JOURNALS

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Continuing Student Presentations

Bill

 
Seminar

DUE: Independent Contract Form
Frankfurt, Love
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 79-91.

Week 7 (Nov 6)

Lectio

DUE: Mind Map
Luce Irigaray, The Way of Love, pp. vii-53; Illich, "The Sad Loss of Gender," at
http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich (1990);
bell hooks, "communion: the female search for love" (copy)
DUE: Response Essay #2

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 49-52; Boccio, pp. 57-65.

Bring BODY MAPS
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Lizzy & Sarah

 
Seminar

Irigaray, Love, selections; Illich; hooks
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 126-143.

Week 8 (Nov 13)
DUE: Final self evaluation available for peer review.

Lectio

DUE: Mind Map
DUE: Community Service Report
Buddha, pp. 98-187.
Frank Boccio, Mindfulness Yoga, pp. 13-49.

Yoga

Farhi, pp. 52-77.

Bring JOURNALS
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

 
Seminar

John Welwood, "Absolute love," Tikkun 21 (1): 18-19, Jan/Feb, 2006 (full text available through EBSCOHOST through TESC library), Frankfurt, Irigaray
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 144-156.

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week 9 (Nov 27)
DUE: Final self evaluation to faculty: (1) hard copy along with colleague reviews and (2) email as attachment.

Lectio

DUE: Mind Map
Empire of the Senses, chapters 6, 11, 16 & 17.
Illich, “Ascesis”
DUE: Response Essay #3

Yoga

Miller, pp. 31-71.

Bring BODY MAPS

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Martha Nussbaum, "Tagore, Dewey, and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education"
Rabindranath Tagore, "The Wrong Heaven"
Rabindranath Tagore, "The Parrot's Tale"

 
Seminar

Martha Nussbaum, “Compassion and Terror,” Daedalus 132 (1): pp. 10-26, Winter, 2003 (available through ProQuest online through TESC library)
Thomas B. Coburn, “Cultivating spiritual academics for leadership: A Presidential Perspective,” Journal of College and Character
PILGRIMAGE DYAD READING: Traveling Souls, pp. 157-172.
DUE: Peer-reviewed, carefully edited self evaluation (see handout and faculty's evaluation template).

Week 10 (Dec 4)

INDEPEDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS and PORTFOLIO REVIEW this week
Faculty will return comments on self evaluations by Monday.
DUE: Final self evaluation, revised in response to faculty comments. Due Thursday at noon or at your evaluation conference, whichever is earlier.

MONDAY, 11 AM - 1 PM: Poster Sessions, Sem 2, C2107 and C2109

12 noon - 2 PM PORTFOLIO REVIEW

Week 10 Portfolio Checklist

Don't forget Don Johnson, "Sitting, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Yearning: Reflections on Scholar-Shaping Techniques."
http://donhanlonjohnson.com/newsite/pages/articles_sitting.html

Sem 2 C3107 & C3109

2 PM - 3 PM PROGRAM WRAP-UP

Sem 2 E4115 (Please note change from previous posting)

 
Yoga

Farhi, pp. 77-80; Boccio, pp. 67-75.

Bring JOURNALS

Potluck [CANCELLED]

Evaluations

 
Evaluations

 

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