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Welcome to Six Books that Changed the World

Welcome to the Olin College AHS course for Six Books that Changed the World! Thank you for visiting our home page... stop by again real soon!

Vital Course Statistics

• Course Title: Six Books that Changed the World

  Instructor: Professor Rob Martello

  Semester: Spring 2006

  Meeting Days: Tuesdays and Fridays

  Meeting Time: 10:00 AM to high noon

  Location: AC213

Confused already? Perhaps you would like to learn more about...

• Olin College? Check out our home page at http://www.olin.edu/

• AHS, which stands for "Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences"? You can either visit the "formal" home page at http://projects.olin.edu/ahs/ or the AHS WIKI at FrontPage

This WIKI is divided into several main sections. Enjoy.

Course Documents and Administration

1. Our official course syllabus dwells happily at http://projects.olin.edu/ahs/Sixbooks/SixBooksSyllabusSpring06.pdf

2. The description of all assignments resides in domestic bliss at http://projects.olin.edu/ahs/Sixbooks/SixBooksAssignmentsSpring06.pdf

3. We use "Journal Groups" to guide our daily feedback and journal submissions. You can click here to read the SixBooksJournalGroups assignments.

4. Poetry is a vital component of our course. Please click here to enter the magnificent world of SixBooksPoetry

5. Check out the BookSixTopics for fun! Then check out the BookSixPresentations for even more fun!

6. Two students created a provocative website offering views into modern ramifications of some of the ideas within our six books, at: http://students.olin.edu/2007/bshih/6bookwebsite/

7. Here are some Web resources that may help provide background and context for Confucius and Sun Tzu:

Confucius:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/ http://www.chinapage.com/confucius/confucius.html http://www.primarysource.org/library/tcus/chineseteaparty/toc.htm

Sun Tzu:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu http://www.sonshi.com/

Class Discussion Board

Students have the option to post analyses of the readings on the night before each of our class meetings. This is accomplished by clicking on the relevant link below and adding links with new text.

Remember to create a new link when you want to add comments to a discussion.

1. Day One, Tuesday Jan 24, InitialComments

2. Day Two, Friday Jan 27, CommunistManifestoOne

3. Day Three, Tuesday Jan 31, CommunistManifestoTwo

4. Day Four, Friday Feb 3, UncleTomOne

5. Day Five, Tuesday Feb 7, UncleTomTwo

6. Day Six, Friday Feb 10, OriginSpeciesOne

7. Day Seven, Tuesday Feb 14, OriginSpeciesTwo

8. Day Eight, Friday Feb 17, PrinceOne

9. Day Nine, Tuesday Feb 21, no class, Olin Monday!

10. Day Ten, Friday Feb 24, PrinceTwo

11. Day Eleven, Tuesday Feb 28, ArtOfWarOne

12. Day Twelve, Friday Mar 3, ArtOfWarTwo

13. Day Thirteen, Tuesday Mar 7, BookSixPresentationsOne

14. Day Fourteen, Friday March 10, BookSixPresentationsTwo

If you have ideas about changing the course, please add them to SixBooksFeedback and accept my thanks!