First Year Seminar on Liberal Education and Citizenship
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 298
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 298
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2025
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This textbook is designed as a foundational guide for first-year college students, introducing them to the principles of liberal education and the responsibilities of citizenship in a democratic society. It encourages students to reflect on their roles as learners and community members, while developing critical thinking, communication, and civic engagement skills. The content is structured to support seminar-style discussions and personal exploration, making it ideal for first-year experience (FYE) programs.
Introduction
Liberal Education
Having Second Thoughts
Craig Woelfel
Be a Writer
Scribes of Ancient Egypt
Giving Employers What They Don’t Really Want
Robert J. Sternberg
When Learning Job Skills Is Not Enough
Matthew L. Sanders
How Can Values Be Taught in the University?
Toni Morrison
Claiming an Education
Adrienne Rich
The Apology
Plato
Respectful and Inclusive Community
“On Friendship”
Aristotle
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
W.E.B. Du Bois
Cover Story: The Head Scarf, Modern Turkey, and Me
Elif Batuman
from The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir
What the Black Woman Thinks About Women’s Lib
Toni Morrison
Escape the Echo Chamber
C Thi Nguyen
Thoughtful Stewardship
A Land Acknowledgement
“Anohebasisiro Nimanibota/We Want to Talk to the Honored One”: Timucua Language and its Uses, Silences, and Protests
Alejanrdra Dubcovsky and George Aaron Broadwell
Why Preservation Matters
Max Page
Deep In Admiration
Ursula K. Le Guin
Building the House
Mary Oliver
Citizenship with Integrity
The Crito
Plato
from the Phedo
Plato
Of the Natural Condition of Mankind
Thomas Hobbes
Of the State of Nature
John Locke
from On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
from Citizen
Claudia Rankine
Transformative Learning
The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic
Plato
from the Confessions of St Augustine
St Augustine
from Human Nature Is Good
Mencius
from That the Nature Is Evil
Xunzi
The Teaching of Ptahhotep
Ptahhotep
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens
Appendices
The Flagler Core: Learning to Think for Yourself
Flagler College Statement on Free Expression and Academic Community