Here are a few of the courses that have used Ishmael or other Quinn books or tapes:

• Advanced Literature (eighth grade--My Ishmael)
  
• African American History
  
• All incoming freshmen
  
• Allied Health
  
• Alpha Seminar First Year Experience Program
  
• Alternative Educational Unit programs
  
• Alternative Vision of Humanity
  
• American Indian Education
  
• American Indian History
  
• American Indian Women
  
• American Literature
  
• American Studies: The Simple Life
  
• Ancient Civilizations
  
• Ancient History
  
• Ancient Society
  
• Animal Behavior
  
• Animal Voice-Human Vision
  
• Anthropology (physical & cultural)
  
• Anthropology of the Future
  
• AP Environmental Science
  
• AP Human Geography
  
• Art and Life
  
• Artist's Hazards
  
• Big Questions for a Small Planet
  
• Biology
  
• Biosocial Psychology (grad)
  
• Business and Environment
  
• Business Ethics
  
• Capstone Seminar in Public and Community Service Studies
  
• Chemistry
  
• Chemistry in the Community
  
• Civics
  
• Classics
  
• Community Service: A Study in Making a Difference
  
• Comparative World Studies
  
• Composition
  
• Conservation Biology
  
• Constitutional Jurisprudence
  
• Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas
  
• Contemporary Issues Seminar
  
• Contemporary Literature
  
• Creating a New Story
  
• Creating a Sane Society
  
• Creating Sustainable Communities
  
• Critical Thinking
  
• Cross-cultural Education
  
• Cross-cultural Psychology
  
• Cultural Dynamics of Technology
  
• Cultural Geography
  
• Culture, Racism, and Human Nature
  
• Depth Psychology
  
• Dialogue Process
  
• Dinosaurs and Disasters
  
• Doctrine of Creation
  
• Earth Community/Earth Ethics
  
• Ecological Ethics
  
• Ecology & the Environment
  
• Ecology and Evolution
  
• Ecology, Ethics, Wilderness
  
• Economics
  
• Economy-Ecology-Ethics
  
• Ecopsychology
  
• Ecosystem Health
  
• Effective Writing
  
• Enduring Questions in Contemporaary Contexts
  
• English 150
  
• English 4 Honors
  
• English-Biology Core
  
• English-History Core
  
• Environment and Mankind
  
• Environment and Society
  
• Environment and Values
  
• Environmental Biology
  
• Environmental Economics
  
• Environmental Ethics
  
• Environmental Issues and Actions
  
• Environmental Literature
  
• Environmental Philosophy
  
• Environmental Policy-making
  
• Environmental Politics
  
• Environmental Psychology
  
• Environmental Science
  
• Environmental Sociology
  
• Environmental Studies
  
• Environmental Theory
  
• ESL (English as a Second Lanugage): Turkey
  
• Essential Daniel Quinn Reader
  
• Ethical Practice
  
• Ethics
  
• European History
  
• EXCO (Experimental College)course
  
• Fantasy Novels
  
• Federal Indian Law
  
• First Nations
  
• First Nations and Cross-cultural Education
  
• Folklore
  
• Foundations of Organizational Service
  
• French
  
• General Communication & Counseliing Theory
  
• Genetics
  
• Geography and Environment
  
• Geography: Resources, Poopulation, and Conservation
  
• Geology
  
• Global Civic Responsibility
  
• Global Futures: Ecology, Feminism, and Religion
  
• Global Humanities
  
• Global Insights
  
• Global Perspectives
  
• Global Problems
  
• Global Understanding and Environmental Ethics (BC)
  
• Global, Political, and Economic Development
  
• Government
  
• Green Architecture
  
• Hazardous Materials Policy Regulation
  
• Health and Pollution
  
• History of Opera
  
• Honors Capstone Seminar
  
• Human Environment
  
• Human Ethology
  
• Human Modifications of Natural Environments
  
• Humanities
  
• Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
  
• Ideas in Western Literature
  
• Independent Future Studies
  
• Indigenous Religions
  
• Indigenous Studies
  
• Influence of Technology on Culture and Society
  
• Inquiry 101
  
• International Baccalaureate Program
  
• International Studies
  
• Interpersonal Multicultural Communications
  
• Introduction to Archaeology
  
• Introduction to Criminal Justice
  
• Introduction to Geography
  
• Introduction to Social Ecology
  
• Inventing Death
  
• Issues in Global Leadership
  
• Law and Religion
  
• Learning Clusters
  
• Learning Community/Diversity of Life--freshman comp
  
• Legal Philosophy
  
• Liberal Arts Symposium-"Origins"
  
• Literature
  
• Literature and Film as Social Commentary
  
• Literature and Ideas of Nature
  
• Literature and Philosophy
  
• Literature and Theories of Human Nature
  
• Literature as Philosophy
  
• Literature for the Inner Quest
  
• Marine, Aquatic/Technological, and Environmental Science Program (MATES)
  
• MBA classes
  
• Meaning in Life: Philosophy & Religion Through Literature
  
• Mind and Nature
  
• Myth, Metaphor, and Symbol
  
• Mythic Patterns
  
• Mythology
  
• Myths, Dreams, and Cultures
  
• Native American studies
  
• Natural Resources Management
  
• Natural Science
  
• Nonprofit Management
  
• Old Testament
  
• Ologies and Isms
  
• Organismic Biology
  
• Organizational behavior
  
• Organizational Learning
  
• Organizational Theory
  
• Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism
  
• Peace & Freedom
  
• Peace Studies
  
• People, Work, and Technology
  
• Perspectives on Agriculture and the Environment
  
• Philosophy
  
• Philosophy for Secondary Education-synecology (post Masters level)
  
• Philosophy in Literature
  
• Philosophy of Religion
  
• Physics 115: Energy
  
• Police Ethics
  
• Political Science
  
• Political Theory
  
• Population Growth and Sustainability
  
• Primal Mind/Tribal Societies
  
• Principles of Management
  
• Problems in Philosophy
  
• Public Issues
  
• Qualitative Research and Writing
  
• Quantum Physics
  
• Radical and Revolutionary Thought
  
• Reading
  
• Religion
  
• Religion and Ecology
  
• Religious Traditions and Care of the Earth
  
• School and Society
  
• Science (5th grade)
  
• Science, Technology & Society
  
• Shaping the 21st Century
  
• Simple Life
  
• Social and Political Philosophy
  
• Social Ecology
  
• Social Inequality
  
• Social Problems
  
• Social Studies Education (for elem. & early childhood education majors)
  
• Social Work
  
• Sociocultural Anthropology
  
• Sociocultural Anthropology & Linguistics
  
• Sociological Perspectives
  
• Sociology of Religion
  
• Sociology of Work
  
• Socratic Seminar-Environmental Science
  
• Southwest Minority Child in the Classroom
  
• Specialist Program (post Masters program) My Ishmael
  
• Substance Abuse Treatment Program
  
• Summer Reading (schoolwide or various classes)
  
• Sustainable Design
  
• Systems of Survival
  
• Teacher as Parent and Professional
  
• Texts and Critics Honors Seminar
  
• The Human Person
  
• Themes and Types of Literature
  
• Theories of Human Nature
  
• Theory of Knowledge
  
• Thinking Philosophically About the Environment
  
• Topics in Archaeology: Domestication & Its Consequences
  
• Twentieth Century Fiction
  
• Twentieth Century Literature
  
• U.S. History
  
• U.S. History/American Literature
  
• Understanding Environmental Issues
  
• Utopian Fiction
  
• Utopian Literature
  
• Visionaries
  
• War and Possibilities of Peace
  
• Ways of Teaching Literature
  
• Western Civilization
  
• Western Civilization & Literature
  
• World Civilization
  
• World Cultures
  
• World History
  
• World History & Philosophy
  
• World Literature
  
• World of Ideas
  
• World Religions
  
• Writing Workshop (for Lit/Bio combination class)
  
• Zoology
  

Is your course using Daniel Quinn's books? Do you know of other courses besides those on this list? Let us know!




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