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About the ISLS Program: Information, Past Program Examples, Application & Interest Forms
 

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Spring 2004 Lecture, Reading, & Essay Assignments

• Douglass' Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.

• Thoreau's Walden

• Freud's Civilization & Its Discontents

• Feynman's Six Easy Pieces

• Basho's Narrow Road

• Camus' The Plague

• Kurosawa's Screenplay for Rashomon

• Gould's The Mismeasure of Man

• Wright's In the Cause of Architecture

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Information about the current situation in Haiti (posted after our talk 5/12/04 by Karolo Aparicio of Global Exchange):

Haiti Action Committee: http://www.haitiaction.net/

Additional Links about Haiti: http://www.haitiaction.net/Links.html

Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/

Karolo Aparicio's Biography: http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/40.html

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Spring 2004 Course Information!

Spring 2004 Reading List
 

Spring 2004 Course Calendar
 

Colloquium Schedule (Coming soon)
 

Expectations & Class Policies
 

Online Discussion Forum
 

ISLS Science Lab Information

Astronomy Lab Syllabus 

Participating Faculty for Autumn 2003-Spring 2004

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• Autumn 2003 Reading List & Calendar

 

Autumn 2003 Lecture, Reading, & Essay Assignments

 

• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
• Shostak's Nisa
• Marx's Communist Manifesto & Other readings in The Marx-Engels Reader (Essay questions available for Marx and Machiavelli)
• Machiavelli's The Prince
• Madison, Hamilton, & Jay: The Federalist Papers
• Darwin's On the Origin of Species
• Galileo's "Starry Messenger" and other readings from Discoveries & Opinions of Galileo
• Studies in Islamic Literature, Art & Architecture; Readings from Night and Horses and the Desert
• Shakespeare's Hamlet

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What is ISLS?

Name	Office, Email & Phone
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   dskiles@chabotcollege.edu   (510) 723-6811
Susan Sperling Susan will be continuing in Autumn for us in this, her first year in ISLS, and we are delighted to have her with us in the program. She also will offer Anthropology Labs in Spring 2004	Room 765   ssperling@chabotcollege.edu   (510) 723- 7063
Scott Hildreth Scott will continue in Autumn 2003-Spring 2004 with the Science topics in ISLS, including Astronomy Labs. He also creates and maintains the ISLS website and online discussion board.	Room 2013   mailto:shildreth@clpccd.cc.ca.us   (510) 723- 7468   ISLS Webpage for Scott's Small Group
Julie Segedy Julie is joining the ISLS team for the first time in Autumn 2003.	Room 718   jsegedy@chabotcollege.edu     (510) 723-6807
Joe Berland Joe served as a tutor in the Spring 2003 semester (ISLS 1A), leading discussion on Mathematics. He'll resume his other teaching assignments in the Mathematics Departement for Autumn 2003-Spring 2004. You can still contact him for questions about your work in Spring 2003, or in general about anything related to ISLS - especially Euclid!	Room 2022   mailto:jberland@chabotcollege.edu     (510) 723-7452
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.	Room 154   mailto:nmize@chabotcollege.edu     (510) 723-6726
Recently Retired from Chabot College & the ISLS Program, but still with us in heart, mind, and spirit!
Elizabeth Flynn Liz has retired from Chabot as of Spring, 2003, but undoubtably she'll still be helping the program. She has ISLS in her heart and soul! Once she shares her contact information, we'll update this page.
Dick Albert Dick has retired from Chabot, but we can still forward email to him! He would love to hear from you.

The following texts are what we will read this autumn. It is important that all students have the same edition of a work. Cover images of the editions we will use, and ISBNs, are available online.

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

Shostak, Marjorie. Nisa. Random House

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.

Madison, Jay, Hamilton. The Federalist Papers, ed. Isaac Kromnick Penguin ISBN 0-14-044495-5

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

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

Night and Horses and the Desert. ed. Robert Irwin. Anchor Books (Random House)

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

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