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The Great Ideas Homepage

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What is Great Ideas?

Great Ideas is an interdisciplinary course offered through the College of Arts and Sciences here at Bowling Green State University that is a survey of several fundamental ideas which have shaped modern culture in general and Western culture in particular.

It is important to note that the ideas discussed in this class are not the only "Great Ideas" out there, or even that these "Great Ideas" are necessarily "good." As such, the goal of this course is for the participants to explore these ideas by being curious and open-minded on the one hand, and questioning and skeptical on the other. We will use our reason and imagination to try to gain an introductory understanding of the historical context that framed these ideas, and we will try to further our knowledge about how these ideas are relevant for us today.

Feel free to contact me about any of the course materials or Internet Resources you see mentioned here. If you are using Lynx, Netscape, or another Web browser that supports e-mail, you can send e-mail to me by clicking here.

Available Course Materials

Available Student Essays

The students in this course have put together a lot of interesting writing projects, some of which are available by clicking here.

Available Net Resources

This space will be changing a lot during this semester, so if this is your first visit, be sure to stop back. The resources listed here are loosely categorized according to the "Great Ideas" discussed in the course.

By the way, most of the resources listed here were located simply by doing a key word search with one of the many search engines available on the Web. Click here to be taken to Netscape's collection of Search Engines

Classical Greek Humanism

Religion

There are A LOT of net resources on religions of all types. Here are just a few places to get started.

Democracy

This first list includes some information about the writers we read about in class that might be particularily interesting and useful.

I've also included a number of what might be better called "political WWW resources" in this section.

Scientific Revolution

The resources that I've been able to find to date are really about "science" in general, but some of them do provide some interesting information.

Marxism

Feminism

Postmodernism

General Internet Resources

Steve Krause/ Department of English/ Bowling Green State University/ Bowling Green, OH 43401 USA/ (419) 353-5104/ [email protected] /All of the Standard Disclaimers Apply