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Seminar 350: Looking Forward

Seminar 350: Looking Forward

Author(s): ST. MARY'S OF CALIFORNIA

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2025

Pages: 320

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Copyright: 2026

Pages: 310

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The Collegiate Seminar Program fosters a genuine sense of collegiality and intellectual community by providing an authentic forum for students to meet and partake of a common experience— the reading and discussion of shared texts under the guidance of faculty from all disciplines. Its participants engage in collaborative dialogue with texts whose ideas shape our world. Through careful reading, shared inquiry, and writing, students improve their skills of analysis and communication. During this process students will develop increased appreciation for these influential texts and grow in their intellectual curiosity, becoming life-long learners and thinkers.

Students will be exposed to a variety of ways of knowing, encouraged in their search for meaning, and learn to accept ambiguity while aiming for clarity. 

In sum, students will practice: 

A. Dialogical thinking: finding the strengths and limitations of various perspectives on the same question; 

B. Interpretive thinking: finding and explicating implicit levels of meaning in texts; 

C. Reflective thinking: exploring how interpretations of texts might illuminate, distort, or obscure aspects of human existence; and 

D. Synthetic thinking: synthesizing and making connections based on their Seminar learning and experiences, bringing them to bear in new contexts.

Collegiate Seminar Program Mission Statement 
 Collegiate Seminar Program Goals & Learning Outcomes 
 Lasallian Core Principles 
 Honor Code and Seminar 
 Guidelines for Grading Oral Participation 
 Kinds of Questions 

Introduction to Octavia E. Butler, Speech Sounds 
Speech Sounds 
        Octavia E. Butler

 Introduction to William Shakespeare, The Tempest 
 (Introduction only)

 Introduction to Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
 (Introduction only)

 Introduction to Hannah Arendt, On Violence 
 On Violence 
        Hannah Arendt

 Introduction to Frantz Fanon, On Violence 
 On Violence 
        Frantz Fanon

 Introduction to Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness 
 Selections from No Future Without Forgiveness 
        Desmond Tutu

Introduction to Mohsin Hamid, Exit West 
(Introduction only)

 Introduction to Martin Buber, The Way of Man 
 Selections from The Way of Man 
        Martin Buber

 Introduction to Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence 
 Computing Machinery and Intelligence 
        Alan Turing

 Introduction to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 
         (Introduction only)

Myth of Prometheus 
        Plato

 Introduction to Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 
 Selections from Laudato Si’ 
         Pope Francis

 Introduction to Amitav Ghosh, Uncanny and Improbable Events 
 Selections from Uncanny and Improbable Events 
         Amitav Ghosh

 Introduction to Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, Sex 
 Age, Race, Class, Sex 
        Audre Lorde

 Introduction to Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderlands 
 To Live in the Borderlands 
         Gloria Anzaldúa

 Introduction to Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds 
 Selections from Night Sky With Exit Wounds 
         Ocean Vuong

 Introduction to Yolanda López, Guadalupe Series 
         (Introduction only)

ST. MARY'S OF CALIFORNIA

The Collegiate Seminar Program fosters a genuine sense of collegiality and intellectual community by providing an authentic forum for students to meet and partake of a common experience— the reading and discussion of shared texts under the guidance of faculty from all disciplines. Its participants engage in collaborative dialogue with texts whose ideas shape our world. Through careful reading, shared inquiry, and writing, students improve their skills of analysis and communication. During this process students will develop increased appreciation for these influential texts and grow in their intellectual curiosity, becoming life-long learners and thinkers.

Students will be exposed to a variety of ways of knowing, encouraged in their search for meaning, and learn to accept ambiguity while aiming for clarity. 

In sum, students will practice: 

A. Dialogical thinking: finding the strengths and limitations of various perspectives on the same question; 

B. Interpretive thinking: finding and explicating implicit levels of meaning in texts; 

C. Reflective thinking: exploring how interpretations of texts might illuminate, distort, or obscure aspects of human existence; and 

D. Synthetic thinking: synthesizing and making connections based on their Seminar learning and experiences, bringing them to bear in new contexts.

Collegiate Seminar Program Mission Statement 
 Collegiate Seminar Program Goals & Learning Outcomes 
 Lasallian Core Principles 
 Honor Code and Seminar 
 Guidelines for Grading Oral Participation 
 Kinds of Questions 

Introduction to Octavia E. Butler, Speech Sounds 
Speech Sounds 
        Octavia E. Butler

 Introduction to William Shakespeare, The Tempest 
 (Introduction only)

 Introduction to Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
 (Introduction only)

 Introduction to Hannah Arendt, On Violence 
 On Violence 
        Hannah Arendt

 Introduction to Frantz Fanon, On Violence 
 On Violence 
        Frantz Fanon

 Introduction to Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness 
 Selections from No Future Without Forgiveness 
        Desmond Tutu

Introduction to Mohsin Hamid, Exit West 
(Introduction only)

 Introduction to Martin Buber, The Way of Man 
 Selections from The Way of Man 
        Martin Buber

 Introduction to Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence 
 Computing Machinery and Intelligence 
        Alan Turing

 Introduction to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 
         (Introduction only)

Myth of Prometheus 
        Plato

 Introduction to Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 
 Selections from Laudato Si’ 
         Pope Francis

 Introduction to Amitav Ghosh, Uncanny and Improbable Events 
 Selections from Uncanny and Improbable Events 
         Amitav Ghosh

 Introduction to Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, Sex 
 Age, Race, Class, Sex 
        Audre Lorde

 Introduction to Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderlands 
 To Live in the Borderlands 
         Gloria Anzaldúa

 Introduction to Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds 
 Selections from Night Sky With Exit Wounds 
         Ocean Vuong

 Introduction to Yolanda López, Guadalupe Series 
         (Introduction only)

ST. MARY'S OF CALIFORNIA
ST. MARY'S OF CALIFORNIA