Welcome to ISLS

Interdisciplinary Studies in Letters and Science

2001-2002 Program

Chabot College

ISLS Course Information for 2001-2002:

• Detailed Course Calendar with Paper Due Dates for Spring 2002
• Spring 2002 Reading List
• Student Expectations Handout
• Astronomy Lab Calendar for Spring 2002
  
  

ISLS Spring Semester 2002 Reading:

• Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces
• Frank Lloyd Wright's In The Cause of Architecture
• Maxine Hong-Kingston's Woman Warrior
• Kurosawa's Rashomon
• Russell's Unpopular Essays
• Jung's Selected Writings from The Essential Jung & Freud's Civilization & its Discontents.
• Thoreau's Walden & Essay Topics
• Frederick Douglass' Narrative - An American Slave
• Virigina Woolf's To The Lighthouse & Essay Topics for Woolf
• Gregor Mendel's Experiments in Plant Hybridization
  
  

ISLS Autumn Semester 2001:

• Course Calendar for Autumn 2001
• Wednesday Colloquium Schedule
• The Syllabus & Reading List - for Autumn
• Galileo's Starry Messenger & Other Readings
• Shakespeare's Hamlet
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
• Darwin's Origin of Species
• Marx, Engels, Locke: Social Science Paper Topics
• Machiavelli's The Prince
• Dante's Inferno Paper Topics
• Research Paper Topics & Timeline

ISLS Resources

Online Discussion Forum (discontinued)

Instructions for using the online forum

Online Resource Links for ISLS Readings & Citation Style Guide

Name & Webpage Link	Office & Hours Email Phone			Tutorial Assignment
Don Skiles Don is the Coordinator for our upcoming 2003-2004 Program! Please contact him for any information about ISLS that you don't see here.	Room 734   Mon 2-4,   Tue 11-12 & 2-3   Fri 2-3   dskiles@clpccd.cc.ca.us   (510) 723-6811
Elizabeth Flynn Liz will return again for 2003-2004	Room 744   M & F: 2-3   Th 1-2   Th 5 -6 eflynn@clpccd.cc.ca.us   (510) 723- 6816
Scott Hildreth Scott will continue in Autumn 2003-Spring 2004 with the Science topics in ISLS, including Astronomy Labs. He has webpages from past ISLS discussions you may explore.	Room 2013   please see web page for office hours   shildreth@clpccd.cc.ca.us    (510) 723- 7468
Joe Berland Joe will continue in Spring 2003 leading discussion on Mathematics
Naoma Mize Naoma is our key Counseling Faculty liason. See her if you have ANY questions about completing a degree at Chabot while participating in ISLS, or transferring your ISLS units to a 4-year school.
Dick Albert Dick has retired from Chabot, but we can still forward email to him! He would love to hear from you.	ralbert@clpccd.cc.ca.us        (510) 723-6815

 

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The Syllabus & Reading List - Autumn 2001

 

The following texts are what we will read this autumn. It is important that all students have the same edition of a work.

Dante. The Inferno of Dante, tr. Robert Pinsky. New York: Noonday Press, 1994.

Engels, Freidrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. New York: Penguin Books, 1972.

Marx, Karl. The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd. Ed., ed. Robert C. Tucker. New York: Norton, 1978.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince, tr. George Bull. New York: Penguin Books, 1961.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. tr. Neville Coghill. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.

Galileo. Discoveries & Opinions of Galileo, tr. Stillman Drake. New York: Anchor Books, 1957.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Folger Library Edition. New York: Pocket Books, 1958.