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Stevenson Core Course recordings
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  • 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