Content

The main required texts for the course are listed on page one of the course syllabus.  The LAMP requirements as well as the course title guided my choice of texts.  I sought to represent the humanities as broadly as possible with plays, short essays, a novel, a film, two excursions to the I.U. Art Museum, some interaction with I.U. architectural monuments, and engagement with various journalistic articles.  The ideas of business were brought to bear by means of two social science texts – one in sociology and the other in political science.  These texts helped students build a theoretical framework in which their interpretations of the humanistic texts could then be situated.  Although I intend to tinker a bit with what students read and the depth to which we explore certain texts, I think the course content was essentially a success.  From my vantage point, the material challenged students appropriately, and students commented that they enjoyed the readings and offered no common suggestions for changing them.