Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Preferred Citation
Biographical / Historical
Scope and Content
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Stevenson Core Course recordings
Creator:
Adlai E. Stevenson College
Identifier/Call Number: UA.102
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
4 cartons
Physical Description:
1.3 GB
2 digital files
Date (inclusive): 1974-2011
Language of Material:
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research. Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted. Digital
files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading room. Some files
may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical limitations may hinder the
Library's ability to provide access to some digital files. Access to digital files on
original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view access copies. Contact Special
Collections and Archives in advance to request access to audiovisual media and digital
files.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for this collection resides with the Regents of the University of California. The
publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for
research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. UCSC
Special Collections and Archives can grant permission to publish materials to which it holds
the copyright.
Preferred Citation
Stevenson College Core Course Recordings. UA 102. Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Biographical / Historical
Since the founding of UC Santa Cruz, the college core course has been an integral part of
the undergraduate experience. All ten residential colleges at UCSC require their first year
students to take a core course. The Stevenson core course was established as a year-long
class in 1966, focused on the theme of "Culture and Society." At this writing (2016) the
Stevenson core course is a two quarter series organized along the theme of "Self and
Society." The course is intended to challenge and expand first year students' perspectives
on "self" and "society" and the interaction between the two through a close engagement with
foundational religious, political, philosophical, and critical texts. The current iteration
of the course features seminal works by Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mohandas Gandhi, Malcolm X,
Gloria Anzaldúa and Marjane Satrapi, as well as key excerpts from the Old Testament, New
Testament, Qur'an, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, and more.
A critical element of the course is its biweekly plenary lecture series, in which a
distinguished faculty member from a range of departments within the humanities visits to
explicate the texts in light of new research and current events. Past lecturers include
Carlos Noreña, Norman O. Brown, and Hayden White, with topics ranging from Cicero to Kafka,
evolution to existentialism, and everything in between.Over the years, "Self & Society"
has been cut from three quarters to two, and lectures have been reduced from weekly to
biweekly, but the course maintains the same rigor and commitment to cultivating a thriving
intellectual community both in and out of the classroom. This collection includes roughly
all of the recorded plenary lectures between fall 1974 and winter 2000.
Scope and Content
The collection includes nearly three hundred recordings of the Stevenson Core Course
beginning in 1974 and dating through 2011. Recordings are in a variety of formats including,
reel to reel audiotape, audiocassette tapes, videocassette tapes and compact discs. The
recordings have been listed in chronological order (if known) along with any identifying
information including lecture title and speaker. The recordings have not been played so
identifying information is based on the respective labels on each physical item.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Lectures
Adlai E. Stevenson College