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
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
Nietzsche
- Alan Bloom (social thought)
Pascal, Luther, Calvin
- Leszek Kolakowski (social thought) (2 courses)
Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Action
- John Searle (Berkeley, philosophy) (2 courses)
- Donald Davidson (Berkeley, philosophy)
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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)
- Digital Imaging (Photoshop)
- Digital Photography
- Web Authoring
For Editing Certificate
Basic Manuscript Editing
Intermediate Manuscript Editing
Advanced Manuscript Editing
Developmental Editing
Essentials of Grammar
Business-oriented:
Presenting Data and Information, Edward R. Tufte (Yale University), Chicago, Aug. 16, 2000. Based on his 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)
Since then, many on the structure and history of the Boy Scouts; the architecture, geography, and history of Chicago; social pyschology; Islam and terrorism; linguistics and grammar; economics and finance; informal logic and critical thinking; mass media, digital imaging and photography; and the theory and history of film.
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