UNIT ONE Language
PRE-READING ACTIVITES
TEXT A Is Our Language in Decay?
TEXT B Language and Electronics: The Coming Global Tongue
TEXT C Chinese Whispers
UNrr Two Literature
PRE-READING ACTIVITES
TEXT A Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Its Place in Latin American and World Literature
TEXT B A Novelist of Moral Power and Passion
TEXT C A Literary Remembrance
UNIT THREE History
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A The Worst Winters
TEXT B The Greatest Century That Ever Was
TEXT C Archaeology
UNIT FOUR Philosophy
eRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A Philosophy
TEXT B The Philosopher and His Shadow
TEXT C When a "White Horse" Is Not a "Horse"
UNIT FIVE Law
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A Texas Case Could Shape the Future of Gun Control
TEXT B Criminal Justice
TEXT C Judges Who Support the Right to Die
UNIT SIX Sociology
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A Sociology
TEXT B Four Possible Sources/Mechanisms for the Emergence of Social Types
TEXT C Four Possible Sources/Mechanisms for the Emergence of Social Types (continued)
UNrr SEVEN Art
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A Impossible Liberties: Contemporary Artists on the Life of Their Work over Time
TEXT B From Mozart to Mahler A Listening Guide to Classical Music
TEXT C Form vs. Function: Texas Researcher Devises Method for Understanding
UNIT EIGHT Journalism
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A Technology Alters Journalists' Job
TEXT B Tall Tales vs. Truth at the Tabloids
TEXT C Too Good to Be True: Fabrications in Boston Globe Columns Lead to Smith's Fall from Grace
UNIT NINE Political Science
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A So, What Do Political Scientists Do?
TEXT B Political Science
TEXT C Mary Ross
UNIT TEN Religion
ERE-READING ACTIVITIES
TEXT A One Nation But Under Whose God?
TEXT B A Professor's View
TEXT C Can Prayer Harm?
KEY TO EXERCISES