Deep Springs College Academic Course Catalog Fall 2005 – Fall 2013 Deep Springs College Deep Springs, CA HC 72 Box 45001 via Dyer NV 89010 760-872-2000 www.deepsprings.edu Table of Contents GENERAL INFORMATION.............................................................................................................................. 1 Educational Mission .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1 The Deep Springs Scholarship and Student Financial Obligations ..................................................................................................... 1 Admissions ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 International Students ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Learning Resources ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Statement on Academic Freedom ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Diversity Statement ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Sexual Harassment Policy ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 ACADEMIC POLICY .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Academic Schedule ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Course Credits ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Academic Load ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Course List ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Add/Drop ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Pass/Fail .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Audit ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Withdrawal ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Completion and Evaluation of a Course ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Students With Learning Disabilities.................................................................................................................................................. 6 Grading Policy ................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Directed Study ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Independent Studies ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Application for Directed and Independent Studies .............................................................................................................................. 9 Composition Requirement .................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Public Speaking ............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Course Selection ............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Academic Probation ......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Academic Appeals Committee ......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Confidentiality ................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Policy on Academic Honesty ............................................................................................................................................................ 11 Faculty Paperwork ........................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Goals of the Deep Springs Academic Program ................................................................................................................................. 12 Transferring to Another College After Deep Springs ........................................................................................................................ 13 Associate of Arts Degree Requirements ............................................................................................................................................ 13 COURSES ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 SUMMER SEMINARS: ......................................................................................................................................... 15 Modes of Political Life (Political Science, Political Philosophy, English) ........................................................................................... 15 Literature and Politics: Aspects of Modernity (Philosophy, Political Theory, English) ...................................................................... 15 Forms of Power (Philosophy, Political Theory, English) ................................................................................................................... 15 Nature/Politics (Philosophy, Political Theory, English) ................................................................................................................... 16 Questions of Ethics, Genealogy of the Divine (Philosophy, Literature) ............................................................................................. 16 Foundings and Refoundings: Tradition, Memory, and Political Identity (Philosophy, Political Science, History) ................................... (Humanities) .................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Aesthetics, Ethics, and Community (Philosophy, English) ............................................................................................................... 17 HUMANITIES: ................................................................................................................................................... 18 First Year Composition (Writing)…………………………………………………………………………………... 18 Poetry Workshop (English, Creative Writing)…………………………………………………………………………18 Elements of Composition .................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Feminism (Gender Studies) .............................................................................................................................................................. 19 Nietzsche (Philosophy) ..................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Plato (Philosophy) ............................................................................................................................................................................ 19 American Transcendentalism & American Pragmatism (Literature,