Required Reading:

• John Agresto, "The Public Value of the Liberal Arts"
• Mark Edmundson, "On Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students"
• William Casement, “Liberal Learning Needs a New Public Relations Campaign”

• Mass Humanities: Earl Shorris Interview
• DePaul University Liberal Studies Program
• Grinnell College, "Education in the Liberal Arts"
• Grinnell College, "Elements of a Liberal Education"

• Earl Shorris, "In the Hands of the Restless Poor"
• Warren Goldstein, “Listening to ‘Car Talk’ and Learning the Liberal Arts”

• Mortimer Adler, Great Ideas
• Great Books Index - List of Titles
• The Harvard Classics

• Robert Bellah, “Community Properly Understood”
• Robert Putnam, “The Prosperous Community”

• Robert N. Bellah home page
• Bowling Alone
• Robert Putnam's Profile
• Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files

• Sarah Mosle, “The Vanity of Volunteerism”
• Ray Oldenburg, “The Problem of Place in America”

• Institute of Community Studies
• Project for Public Spaces
• Mess Hall

Individual Project meetings with me (in my office)

All groups should be meeting and working in preparation for the group-led classes (and getting your reading packet finalized to be handed in next week)

Individual Project meetings with me (in my office)

All groups should be meeting and working in preparation for the group-led classes (and getting your reading packet finalized to be handed in next week)

Individual Project meetings with me (in my office)

All groups should be meeting and working in preparation for the group-led classes (and getting your reading packet finalized to be handed in next week)

Individual Project meetings with me (in my office)

All groups should be meeting and working in preparation for the group-led classes (and getting your reading packet finalized to be handed in next week)

• Gay Talese, “Of Things Unnoticed”
• Philip Gefter, “The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph”

• Soundscapes
• DocumentaryWorks
• Gay Talese Home Page
• This American Life "Sinatra"

• Richard M. Freeland, “Rethinking Traditional Academic Views of Work”
• Kimberly Lankford, “The New Resume for a New Year”
• Kathleen Isaacson, “Getting Hired”
• “What would I Find in Your Refrigerator”
• “What to Ask at a Job Interview”
• “Resume Facelift”