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Title: A South American Serenade, Guest Recital
Description: Concert program for the recital by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz on the South American harp on October 28, 2006.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3856

Title: Campus Culture Wars -- Then and Now, Tutorial, Fall 1997
Description: In recent years there has been much debate about what constitutes an appropriate undergraduate education. Discussions of multiculturalism, race and gender equality, political correctness, and much else have helped fuel sometimes stormy debates about what college students ought to learn and how. But these debates are not new, especially in American education. In this tutorial we shall examine both recent controversies and their predecessors in an effort to establish our own criteria for the proper definition of liberal education in late twentieth-century America. These discussions will conclude with each student creating his or her own four-year course of study, together with an essay justifying it on the principles of liberal education.
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:3431

Title: Darwin's Legacy in the 20th Century and Beyond, Tutorial, Fall 2000
Description: The goals of this course are: 1) to develop your skills in the areas of critical thinking, writing, and oral communication. 2) to integrate you fully into the college environment by providing you with advice regarding your course of study and other necessary assistance. Although the subject matter is expansive and interesting in its own right, we should remember that the readings are not an end to themselves, but are intended to be a springboard to facilitate the development of your skills. We will consider the impact of Darwin's thought in four areas: 1) the relationship between science and religion, 2) the question of design in nature, 3) current scientific understanding of the origin of life on earth (and related questions regarding extra-terrestrial life), and 4) application of Darwin's ideas to questions regarding human nature.
Date Created: 2000
PID: grinnell:3434

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003
Description: Student papers for Fall 2003 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:4251

Title: Degradation and Development in Tropical Forests
Description: This tutorial explores why the world's tropical forests are disappearing focusing on Latin America and the Amazon Basin.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3435

Title: Dis/Connected, Tutorial, Fall 2003
Description: It has been said that we live in a dog-eat-dog world. Some have likened human life to a continual struggle for the survival of the fittest individuals, mirroring certain evolutionary processes observed in non-human life. Still others cherish a view in which we are all brothers or sisters in one human family, a view that urges awareness of how human relationships bring inspiration and meaning to our lives. This tutorial will examine the ways in which we are isolated from each other and in which we are connected to each other as human beings.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3438

Title: Doing History: the Pullman Strike, Pullman Strike
Description: The purpose of this tutorial is to sharpen your sense of the ways in which history is constructed, educate you about the standards governing that construction, and develop your own skills for engaging in such construction. We will use the story of the Pullman strike to develop reading, research, and writing strategies and to ponder the multiple choices every historian must make in writing a narrative that both recounts and analyzes a historical event. So this is a course in skill-building, story-telling, and scholarly ethics.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3439