Deep Springs College Academic Course Catalog Fall 2006 – Summer 2018 Deep Springs College Deep Springs, CA HC 72 Box 45001 via Dyer NV 89010 760-872-2000 www.deepsprings.edu Table of Contents ¤1 EDUCATIONAL MISSION .............................................................................................................................................. 11 ¤2 ACCREDITATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 ¤3 THE DEEP SPRINGS SCHOLARSHIP AND STUDENT FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS ................................................. 11 ¤4 ADMISSIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 ¤5 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 13 ¤6 LEARNING RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................................... 13 ¤7 STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM ..................................................................................................................... 13 ¤8 DIVERSITY STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 14 ¤9 SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICY .................................................................................................................................. 15 ACADEMIC POLICY ............................................................................................................................................ 16 ACADEMIC SCHEDULE ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 COURSE CREDITS .................................................................................................................................................................... 16 COURSE LOAD .......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 COURSE LIST ............................................................................................................................................................................ 18 ADD/DROP .............................................................................................................................................................................. 18 PASS/FAIL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 18 AUDIT ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 WITHDRAWAL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 18 COMPLETION AND EVALUATION OF COURSE WORK ........................................................................................................ 18 STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ....................................................................................................................... 19 GRADING POLICY .................................................................................................................................................................... 19 INDEPENDENT AND DIRECTED STUDIES ............................................................................................................................ 21 WRITING AT DEEP SPRINGS AND THE COMPOSITION REQUIREMENT .......................................................................... 23 PUBLIC SPEAKING ................................................................................................................................................................... 24 COURSE SELECTION ............................................................................................................................................................... 24 ACADEMIC PROBATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 24 ACADEMIC APPEALS COMMITTEE ....................................................................................................................................... 25 CONFIDENTIALITY .................................................................................................................................................................. 25 ACADEMIC HONESTY ............................................................................................................................................................. 25 ¤10 TRANSFERRING TO ANOTHER COLLEGE AFTER DEEP SPRINGS ....................................................................... 26 ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................. 26 ACADEMIC PETITIONS ........................................................................................................................................................... 27 COURSES .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 SUMMER SEMINARS .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Modes of Political Life (Political Theory, Literature & Poetry) ......................................................................... 3 Literature and Politics: Aspects of Modernity (Political Theory, Literature & Poetry) .......................... 3 Forms of Power (Political Theory) ................................................................................................................................ 3 Nature/Politics (Political Theory) ................................................................................................................................. 4 Questions of Ethics, GenealoGies of the Divine (Philosophy, Literature & Poetry) ................................... 4 FoundinGs and RefoundinGs: Tradition, Memory, and Political Identity (Political Science, History) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Aesthetics, Ethics, and Community (Philosophy, Political Theory) ................................................................. 5 Summer Seminar 2013 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Human RiGhts and World History (Political Science, History) .......................................................................... 5 Questions of Ethics: GenealoGies of the Divine (Literature & Poetry, ReliGious Studies) ...................... 5 Crisis and Community: Disappointment and the BeGinninG of Political Life .............................................. 6 (Literature & Poetry, Political Theory) ....................................................................................................................... 6 HUMANITIES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 First Year Composition (WritinG) .................................................................................................................................. 7 Poetry Workshop (English, Writing) ............................................................................................................................ 7 Elements of Composition (WritinG) ............................................................................................................................... 7 Feminism (Gender & Cultural Studies) ........................................................................................................................ 8 NietZsche (Philosophy) ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Plato (Philosophy) ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 American Transcendentalism & American PraGmatism (Literature & Poetry, Philosophy) ............... 8 Heavy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown: Leadership, Power & Authority in Shakespeare's Plays (Literature & Poetry, Theater Arts) .................................................................................................................. 9 Emily Dickinson (Literature & Poetry) ........................................................................................................................ 9 Romanticism (EnGlish) 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