Week 1: August 27, 2019

August 27, 2019

Topic: Introductions

Read for Class

• Book VI of the Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle (this is linked to the whole book. You only need to read the book noted.)

Do for class:

• answer the following questions and send to me prior to the beginning of class:
  • how would you define rhetoric? action?
  • what do you feel is the relationship of theory to practice/praxis?
  • when you hear the word knowledge what goes to mind?
  • describe yourself (at the moment) in terms of who you believe you are as a teacher/scholar/practitioner. If this has changed, please tell me why it has changed. (The goal of this is to get you thinking about your next steps, whatever they may be.)
  • tell me what requirement or curiosity this course fills.

In class:

• discussion of Aristotle’s ethics in relation to your answers from “do for class”
• overview of the course structure
• introduction to institutions and administration and management (or our extended example for the term)