First Year Seminar 125: Vienna around 1900: Cradle of Modernity

1 (Christian Rogowski) EXPECTATIONS:

Fin-de-sicle Vienna is one of the richest, most varied, and most fascinating periods in modern Western culture. I hope ou will en!o encountering new ideas and different perspectives, great works of literature, music or art etc. as much as I do. It is an open secret that what ou "get out# of this course depends ver much upon what ou are willing to "put in.# $or m part, I promise to do m utmost to guide ou through the materials, to help ou understand and appreciate the period%s man comple&ities and to develop some skills that will 'e of continued use to ou as ou em'ark on our li'eral arts education. (ou will find that, es, learning involves hard work, 'ut ou will also find that the rewards increase with the degree of engagement and the kind effort ou are willing to invest. I sincerel hope that ou will discover the !o s of learning and share with me and our fellow students the pleasures of e&ploration that make college so rewarding. I have designed the course s lla'us so that the workload and the pacing is as reasona'le as I can make it) I think I can legitimatel e&pect ou to do our part. *o clarif what I mean ' "doing our part,# here are the "rules# associated with the successful completion of a course.

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