INT 94 | ZEN | FALL 2009 (v1)

Description: This is a freshman seminar on Zen. The course is about life skills and offers an approach to surviving IV and thriving at UCSB. Readings include The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, and Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki. The course also examines an alternative form of mindfulness developed by Epictitus, Marcus Aurelius and other Stoics.  

 

INT 94 | POLITICAL TOLERANCE (v1)

Description: This freshman seminar focuses on political tolerance. Students will read selected works by John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Karl Popper. The seminar concludes with a field trip to Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

 

INT 94 | THE WAR ON TERROR (v2)

Description: This freshman seminar examines US foreign policy and the war on terror. It is designed to provide answers to the following questions: Why have terrorists repeatedly targeted US citizens and interests over the last 25 years? How have US presidents prior to George W. Bush responded to these attacks? What is the Bush administration's national security policy after 9/11? Does the Bush doctrine really represent a radical departure from previous policies? Why did the US invade Iraq? Was the war in Iraq a distraction from the war on terror, or is it actually central to the Bush administration's grand strategy?