Week
1: January 23
Introduction
: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
Overview
Practicalities-Computer
and internet access confirmations
Science of
Compassionate Love presentation- begin
Love as something
that multiple perspective illuminate… diagram, definition.
Experiential/contemplative
exercise – journal
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Assignments for
Jan 30:
May quiz on
articles Jan 30
*Chapter
Underwood, Oxford Press book read/notes
*Kindness of
Strangers article
Journal
assignments: poems/readings in handout
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Week
2: Jan 30
Science Methods
and COMPASSIONATE LOVE
Science research
on Compassionate Love
Model –
discussion and/or quiz
Experiential
exercise/ memory imagination
Intro
to nature of science
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Assignments for
Feb 6:
To read for next
time
*Journaling and
Health, JAMA
*2 Articles on
SAT (from the Atlantic Monthly and other)
*Physicist essay:
Kaku
Websites to view
Journals:
*Science
quotes
* Vanier
‘Becoming Human’ excerpt
*Book
of Qualities: 2 selections, include “Confidence” and
“Faith”
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Week
3: Feb 6
Science
and INSPIRATION/ Spirituality
Experiential
exercises in class –Stickies and categories
Prep for Science
project part one
Why and how does
science give such good information on how things are?
Intro to science
methods, interpretation
Key issues of
clear question, multifactorial etiology
1)
Qualitative and quantitative methods, confounding
2)
Objectivity/subjectivity
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Assignments for
next week:
1) Science
research project stage one compassionate love. – Research
due week 4, write up due week 5.
Journals:
* 3 - Book of
Qualities, continued (Anxiety, Fear, Truth and pick one you really
like in prep for class discussion week 5)
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Week
4: Feb 13
Science
–MEASUREMENT
Measurement -
Qualitative, Quantitative – discussion
Statistics
Science methods
applications
Concept and
measures of spirituality
Daily Spiritual
Experiences Scale
Discussion of
Project part one and Part 2
Discuss
articles
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Assignments for
next week:
Science research
project stage two – Data collection due week 5, writeup due
week 7 ( after break)
Journals:
* Chuang Tzu
poems: Need to Win, The Bell Tower
* Astropix
website
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Week
5: Feb 20
Poetry and
Science : THE SELF
Self-report and
the nature of the self
Video : Creature
Comforts
Damasio –
Descarte’s Error discussion
“Book of
Qualities” discussion: sharing favorites- why, sharing
commonalities with science
Exercise in
class. Poetry and the self.
Read/discuss
Billy Collins Intro to Poetry, read excerpts from Heaney Redress
of Poetry - introduction- discuss
Exercises:
contemplation and poetry
Science project
due this week.
Week
6: Feb 27 Spring break
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Assignments for
March 6:
*write up part 2
science quantitative study/survey
*”Book of
Qualities” written piece: poetry and the self.
*read sestina
Elizabeth Bishop
*write sestina
Journals:
Poems
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Week
7: March 6
The
Impact of Poetry: Practical POETRY
Heaney: Redress
of Poetry
Experiential
exercises Book of Qualities
Video: “Charades”
Discussion of
Science projects/ science methods – how does it compare with
the poetry?
Discuss sestina
Introduce art
project… start thinking
Introduce
Film: what to watch for
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March 14 due:
* Bring music to
next class to play and describe impact for you (compassionate
love, reflect on music and time)
*View film this
week… afterwards note for discussion: time, comp love,
happiness/contentment.
Journals:
Film
and Poems
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Week
8: March 14 MUSIC AND FILM
Music
Discuss film
in class
Share music in
class
Discuss articles
read
Introduction to
Williams book…
Experiential
exercises
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Assignment for
next week:
*Begin Charles
Williams book – read chapters 1-5
*Student's first
person descriptions of characters
Journals:
Williams
chapts 1, 2, 3, and 4-5
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Week 9: March 20
Williams
: TIME AND LOVE
Physics and Time
Williams
discussion: articulation, character (students)
Nature of
Happiness
Time and
Eternity: Time in Clinical Medicine
Wondering
where the lions are.
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Assignments for
next week:
Read chapters
6-10 of Williams
Journals:
Chapt 6-10
Williams
ART
PROJECTS DUE WEEK 12
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Week 10: March 27
FICTION
Williams: the self
Tape of Williams,
book passages,
Discuss Williams
Chapt 6 –10
Intro to visual
art
Journaling with
visual art
Exercise:
Memory
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Assignments for
next week:
*Articles Social
Science and Cognition- eg nodding study
*Implicit
Association Test Harvard website
Journals:
Hoving book on reserve– Art
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Week 11: April 3
VISUAL ART
Dance me to the
end of love
Art exercise
Imagination
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*Ivory tower of
tearlessness
* Joseph Pieper,
Only the lover sings
Journals: Hoving
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Week
12: April 10
Art Projects
Exercise memory
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Assignments for
next week:
*Selected
articles, cognitive science, social science
*Companionship of
a Poem article/ Milosz
Journals: 3
poems/art/natural observation or presentations
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Week
13: April 17
Art,
Science and Spirituality: DECISIONMAKING
Pulling it all
together (see diagram)
Discussion of
contribution of cognitive science
Reviewing what we
have covered
Preparation for
exam
Discuss
decision-making, quality of life, compassionate love, and time.
Course
applications to life and other coursework.
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Essay
exam –integrative application of course- open book/notes.
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Week
14: April 24 Exam
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