Description
IC101 Individual and Community First-Year Seminar 3 credits
The questions raised by the relationship between the individual and the community form
the connecting theme of the general education program at the College at Rindge. As the
first step in the sequence of our interdisciplinary core curriculum, this course begins the
exploration of these important questions by examining aspects of community life in modern
America. Students are invited to participate in a semester-long study and discussion of the
consequences and possible responses to the dilemmas that are continually produced by our
living together. Reading, writing assignments, and activities are used to stimulate thinking
about the various issues that arise in relation to examining our social nature and in developing
a personal approach to issues in our everyday lives that require us to balance the claims
of membership in a community with our rights as individuals. Students may not withdraw
from this course; they ma