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Warren 11A-B, Honors Program Scholars Seminar

2008-2009: Innocence and Experience

Course Description

The Warren College Scholars Seminar provides Honors Program students with a challenging introduction to university-level reading and writing while at the same time satisfying the college's two-quarter composition requirement for first-year students. The course theme for 2008-2009 is "Innocence and Experience." We will begin the fall quarter by exploring various meanings and understandings of innocence, including its relationship to childhood and childlike qualities. We will go on to consider the movement from a state of innocence to one of experience. Is the loss of innocence inevitable? Is it something to be sought after, to be mourned – or both? Do those who have entered the realm of experience have a responsibility to protect those who have not? Throughout the WARR 11A-B sequence we will undertake an interdisciplinary exploration of innocence and experience, and our understanding will be enriched by the visits of guest speakers from across the UCSD campus.

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