概述

Taken during a student's first semester, the first-year foundations course sequence (CC100: Critical Inquiry Seminar & CC120: First-Year Writing Seminar) serve as the foundation to CC's General Education plan.

作为一个序列, these courses provide an introduction to disciplinary scholarship, the nature of the liberal arts, and learning on the block. In the first block (CC100), 学生们开始将文科理解为一种由各种认识论和方法论文化组成的特定社区. 本课程的目标是帮助学生了解不同的研究领域以不同的方式构建和组织知识, each with its own paradigms and assumptions. 第二个模块(CC120)建立在CC100的基础上，让学生理解学科实践和写作之间的关系. 本课程的目标是帮助学生理解每个学科在特定的话语社区中运作，每个话语社区都有自己的结构, 风格, 和形式.

所有CC100 & CC120 courses are linked, 这意味着同一CC100课程的学生将作为一个队列进入相关的CC120课程. 这些联系有助于加强在第一个街区发展起来的社会联系，让学生有更多的时间在街区一起学习.

Fall CC100 courses are also grouped into "thematic clusters.“这些集群旨在帮助学生在比较框架中思考学科知识的生产. Courses are clustered around a shared topic, 问题, or theme (i.e. "Operations of Power"). Although students are enrolled in a single CC100/CC120 course sequence, 集群中的所有课程都将提供定期的“融合体验”，为学生提供跨课程参与的机会，以比较各自课程中与共享主题相关的知识创造的不同方法.

thematic clusters (fall start)

Winter Start Course Descriptions (2025)

CC105: Title forthcoming.

Instructor: Michelle Gevedon
Learning Across the Liberal Arts Designation: Scientific Analysis
布洛克:5

Description forthcoming.

CC120: Primate Narratives & Multispecies Ethnographies

Instructor: Krista Fish
布洛克:6

灵长类动物学是生物人类学中的一个专业，有着丰富的讲故事的历史. 从强调在雨林中生存的挑战的纪录片，到珍·古道尔(Jane Goodall)最早记录她对黑猩猩研究的书籍, many people have gained an understanding of our close relatives through narrative. 学生 will explore primate narratives that are presented in documentaries, field narratives written for the general public, and scientific reports on primate behavior. 除了比较这些不同叙事形式在讲故事方面的差异, 我们还将通过“多物种人种学”的视角来审视人与动物的关系,” an emerging line of inquiry from cultural anthropology. 学生们将研究这些讲述人类与非人类互动的故事的不同方式如何增加我们对自己和我们所居住的世界的理解.

最多两次下午的班会——一次动物园实地考察和一次纪录片放映.

CC106: The Political Science of Critical Issues

Instructor: Elizabeth Coggins
Learning Across the Liberal Arts Designation: Societies & 人类行为
布洛克:5

CC100课程旨在帮助学生开始理解文科作为一种由各种认识论和方法论文化组成的特定社区. 不同的研究领域以不同的方式构建和组织知识——政治学, like other fields, has its own paradigms and assumptions. In this particular course, 我们将使用我们这个时代的三个“关键问题”作为工具，以加深对政治科学家如何观察的理解, 问题, and theorize about political phenomena. 换句话说, 我们将利用这些问题来揭示政治科学的一些范式和假设. In particular we will focus on polarization, climate change, and race relations. 这些紧迫的社会政治问题将引导我们走上“像政治科学家一样思考”的道路.“我们将批判性地参与原创研究——无论是开创性的还是前沿的——来解决这些问题. Perhaps most importantly, 我们将开发工具来评估课程范围之外的问题和尚未出现在美国议程上的问题.S. 政治. 

CC120: Reading Fiction

Instructor: George Butte
布洛克:6

这门文学课的目的是帮助你成为一个更好的故事读者. We will read a wide variety of fictions, from different periods and 文化s. Understanding how narrative works is a fundamental cultural skill. You will also practice writing about that understanding, including revising papers after one-on-one tutorials. Questions we will address: how to read fiction, themes and form? How do we read our reading? What assumptions underlie our processes? And how can your writing and argumentation improve? We will look at different kinds of academic writing (assumptions, conventions). We will also discuss the racism, classism, and sexism of Standard (White) English. We will discuss a major conflict at the College: on one hand, we are anti-racist, anti-classist, anti-sexist, and you will have the opportunity to write free of Standard English values. But on the other hand, 在大学毕业后的许多职业生涯中取得成功(至少在革命到来之前), at Yale Law School or the New York Times, you will have to write good Standard English, and so endorse some racist and classist values. This class allows you to choose between those options.