Our material will center on two ideas at the heart of our course, the liberal arts and social entrepreneurship.

Week 1

• “Social Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts” and related video. Jonathan Isham. 2011 and 2102.
• An example of public narrative from Joy Cushman

Weeks 2 and 3

• “The American Scholar.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1837. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
• “My Pedagogic Creed.” John Dewey. 1897. School Journal vol. 54 (January 1897), pp. 77-80
• “Only Connect: The Goals of a Liberal Arts Education”  William Cronin. 1998.  The American Scholar, Volume 67, No. 4, Autumn 1998.
• “On Agape.” 1 Corinthians 13.
• “The American College at the Place for Liberal Learning.” 1999. Eva T. H. Brann Daedalus Vol. 128, No. 1, Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges (Winter, 1999), pp. 151-171.
• “A Talk to Teachers.” James Baldwin. Delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child – His Self-Image”; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963,
• The Middlebury College mission statement. 2006
• “A conversation with Marshall Ganz.” The Nation, February 21, 2011.
• “Telling your Public Story: Self, Us, Now.” Marshall Ganz
• Your story of self (ongoing) and research ideas

Week 4

• The Blue Sweater. Jacqueline Novogratz.

Week 5

• Parts 1 – 3 in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
• Ernesto Sirolli: “Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!“

Week 6

• Part 4 in Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
• “Social Change’s Age of Enlightenment.” David Bornstein. New York Times. October 17, 2012
• Research proposal

Spring break

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TBD (will use some of this material)

• Really good draft of blog post on the group you studies/interviewed, for final edits from peers (bring two printed copies)
• FixesU assignment
  • Read a FixesU article, write up a journal entry about it, and share what you learned with the rest of us on Wednesday
• Three David Brooks pieces plus two more related pieces
  • “Sam Spade at Starbucks.” New York Times, April 12, 2012.
  • “The Thought Leader.” New York Times, December 16, 2013.
  • “Millennial Searchers.” New York Times.  Mily Esfahani Smith and Jennifer L. Aaker. November 30, 2013.
  • “The Leadership Revival.” New York Times. January 13, 2014.
  • “Why are American Colleges Obsessed with Leadership.” The Atlantic. Tara Isabella Burton. January 22, 2104.
• Visit from Tracy Himmel Isham of Middlebury’s Center for Careers and Internships.

• Post the FINAL versions of your blog posts here.
• ‘Shouting Over the Storm.’ TedX talk by Dr. Mike Kiernan.  October 15, 2010.
• ‘The Drum Major Instinct.’ Sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  February 4, 1968. (Audio and text here)
• Presenting your story of self