next on my reading list...

...is likely to be Global Values 101: A Short Course

The publisher's site describes the book as follows:

Global Values 101 grew out of one of the most popular courses ever offered at Harvard University, in which some of the most original thinkers of our day sat down with students and explored how ideas have made them-and can make us-more engaged, involved, and compassionate citizens. In these engrossing, essay-length interviews, which address the topics of war, religion, the global economy, and social change, Amy Goodman, host of the popular radio program Democracy Now, speaks about the role of the independent media as gatekeeper and witness; Lani Guinier, author of Tyranny of the Majority, reveals that students' SAT scores more accurately describe the kind of car their parents drive than the grades they will earn in college and shows the way to a more equitable college admissions system; Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, explores the American Dream and exposes the myth of the "good war"; economist Juliet Schor, author of Born to Buy and The Overspent American, explains why Americans are willing to sacrifice quality of life to attain financial success; former "mall rat" Naomi Klein, author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, urges readers to go global while fighting global conglomerates; and Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, employs her incisive wit to explore what it really means to be a feminist in the Twenty First century.

You can download and read the intro, in PDF format

In the recent roundtable I completed for the CTE about Thomas Friedman's book THE WORLD IS FLAT, I posed the question to the group, what college course - existing or new, would they recommend every college student should take. While there was a variety of good answers: statistics, information literacy, history of the 20th century, history of technology, and a few others, I would think the Harvard Course this book is modelled on would be a great addition to any curriculum.