FSEM 101   Conversations

Faculty Profile for Professor Spires

Employs a set of five common texts – selected by the faculty teaching the course – to promote wide-ranging conversations, anchored in the past and directed toward the present. Core Conversations defines the term “text” expansively, not limiting it to written work but encompassing diverse modes of intellectual and creative expression. As such, the common texts for this course are drawn from multiple disciplines, from pre-modern and modern worlds, and from Western and non-Western cultures. Instructors are encouraged to add other materials in order to enhance the themes of the course. Students who successfully complete this seminar receive credit for CORE 111 and satisfy the Core Conversations requirement.

Jeff Spires teaches in the Department of Writing And Rhetoric and in University Studies. His current research focuses on issues of social justice and identity development.