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Title: Investigations: a Handbook for Biology Courses
Description: The goal of this handbook is to communicate to students the opportunities they have in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, as well as the expectations of their work in Grinnell College courses. Because of the close interaction between courses required for the Biology, Chemistry and Biological Chemistry majors, we recognize the need to speak in one voice about our approaches to teaching science. While you will find many differences between courses in our departments, we hope you will recognize and learn the common skills that are fundamental to good scientific understanding and practice.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:19112

Title: Living an authentic life, Tutorial, Living an authentic life, autumn 2003
Description: Socrates taught that the unexamined life is not worth living. This tutorial will put this bit of classical wisdom to the test. Focusing on Existentialist thinkers Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Martin Buber, we shall seek to identify the qualities that make a human life authentic. Although these writers are alike in their Existentialist approaches, they differ widely in their ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual conclusions.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3449

Title: Music in the Balance of Power, Tutorial: Music in the Balance of Power
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:226

Title: Musicians in Fiction
Description: Students will read fiction about musicians and listen to the relevant musical works that are mentioned in the literature.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3453

Title: Narrative and Identity, Tutorial: Narrative and Identity
Description: All human beings tell stories, indeed some researchers argue that a narrative capacity is a critical and unique feature of human cognition. The great political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, claims that we tell stories because we need them to understand the intentions of human actors, and without them we cannot make sense of human speech and action. Stories not only help us to make sense of actions, they also motivate them.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3455

Title: Outward from the Middle of the Maze: Selected Plays of Tom Stoppard, Selected Plays of Tom Stoppard
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3456

Title: Painting Modernity, Tutorial: Painting Modernity
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores what is meant by the modern word.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3457

Title: Primitive Skills in the Modern World, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Whittaker
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Modern popular culture is seeing a revival of interest in primitive skills. Practical experience; reading and writing will be applied to the the exploration of primitive.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:225

Title: Renaissance
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Considers the rebirth of arts, politics and culture in Florence known as the renaissance.
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:3458

Title: Soundtracks and Scores, Soundtracks and Scores : Syllabus
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Soundtracks and scores explores the use of music in conveying emotion in films.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3460