Courses Taken
    Aristotle
    Arthur W. H. Adkins (classics) (2 courses):     Ethics, Politics
    Alan Bloom (social thought):     Politics
    Myles Burnyeat (Cambridge, philosophy):     De Anima
    Eugene Gendlin (psychology):     De Anima
    Richard Kraut (Northwestern, philosophy):     Politics
    Robert Pippin (social thought):     Politics
    Bernard Manin (political science):     Politics
    Glenn Most (social thought):     Metaphysics
    Ian Mueller (philosophy) (2 courses): logic
    Blackstone on Common Law
    Gareth Jones (Cambridge, law)
    American Constitution and Government
    Michael McConnell (law)
    Cass Sunstein (law)
    Stephen Holmes (political science)
    David Strauss (law)
    History of English Legal Institutions
    John Langbein (Yale, law)
    Charles Gray (history)
    Richard Helmholz (law)
    Greek Law
    David Cohen (Berkeley, rhetoric)
    Hegel
    Paul Ricoeur (divinity)
    Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
    Daniel Brudney (philosophy)
    Charles Gray (history)
    Jurisprudence
    Richard A. Posner (law)
    Frederick Schauer (Harvard)
    Marxism
    Jon Elster (political science)
    Martin “Z” Malia (Berkeley, history)
    A. James Gregor (Berkeley)
    Natural Law
    Charles Gray (history)
    Nietzsche
    Alan Bloom (social thought)
    Pascal, Luther, Calvin
    Leszek Kolakowski (social thought) (2 courses)
    Philosopy of Language, Mind, and Action
    John Searle (Berkeley, philosophy) (2 courses)
    Donald Davidson (Berkeley, philosophy)
    Plato
    Joseph Cropsey (political science)
    Rational Choice
    Jon Elster (political science)
    Russell Hardin (political science)
    Rawls
    Arnold Davidson (philosophy)
    Roman Law
    Peter Stein (Cambridge, law)
    Gary Forsythe (classics)
    Georg Simmel
    Donald Levine (sociology)
    Max Weber
    Randall Collins (UC San Diego, sociology)
    Susanne Rudolphe (political science)
    Edward Shils (social thought) (2 courses)
    Other Social Theory
    sociology of knowledge:     Reinhard Bendix (Berkeley)
    sociology of ideology:     Raymond Boudon (Sorbonne, sociology)
    sociology of intellectuals:     Edward Shils (social thought) (3 courses)
    sociology of elites:     Bernard Silberman (political science)
    sociology of revolution:     Chalmers Johnson (Berkeley)
    sociology of religion:     Peter Homans (divinity)
    sociology of the family: M. Held (Switzerland)

    Other Courses Taken
    Asian Civilization
    Sun Yat-sen
    Religions of the World
    Africa under European Domination
    Developmental Politics (Africa)
    Ethics and Public Policy: South Africa
    Development Policy, Planning, and Administration (Latin America, Asia, Africa)

    International Relations
    Soviet Foreign Policy
    History of the Soviet Union
    History of Western Civilization (4 courses)
    Comparative Government
    History of the United States
    Government and Politics in the United States
    Political Violence

    Macroeconomics
    Microeconomics (2 courses)
    Methodology (scope and methods)
    Political Theory
    Philosophy
    Ethics and Public Policy

    Public Speaking
    English (3 courses)
    Methods of Library Use
    Psychology
    Ecology
    Biology
    Statistics
    Algebra
    French
    German
    Ancient Greek
    Korean
    Accounting
    Graphic Arts (2 courses)
    Independent Study (several courses)

    Business-oriented:
    Presenting Data and Information
    Edward R. Tufte (Yale University), Chicago, Aug. 16, 2000

    Based on Tufte's trilogy:
    The Visual Display of Quantitative Information     (1983),
    Envisioning Information (1990)
    Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1997)

    Building Media-Rich Content for the Web
    Apple and Adobe staff, Apple Offices on Wacker Dr., Chicago, June 14, 2000

    Public Passenger Vehicle Program (for the City of Chicago)
    Certificate awarded by Harold Washington College on Nov. 18, 2000

    Some Books Read in 2000

    • Net Ready: Strategies for Success in the E-conomy by Amir Hartman and John Sifonis with John Kador (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000) (excellent)
    • Killer Content: Strategies for Web Content and E-Commerce by Mai-lan Tomsen (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 2000) (useful)
    • Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What they Know (Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2000) (quite good)
    • Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation by Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, and Ikujiro Nonaka (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) (excellent)
    • Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Review Paperback, 1997-1998) (very good)
    • The Complete Idiot's Guide to E-Commerce by Rob Smith and Mark Speaker (Indianapolis: Que, 2000) (useful)
    • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1983) (very good)
    • Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990) (very good)
    • Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte (Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997) (very good)
    • Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon (New York: Broadway Press, 1999) (interesting)
    • Interaction of Color: Unabridged Text and Selected Plates (Revised Edition) by Josef Albers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975) (very good so far)

    Many on the structure and history of the Boy Scouts, the architecture, geography, and history of Chicago, social pyschology, Islam, and terrorism.

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