ASEE Prism, October 1st, 2003
While studying for her bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, Yvonne Yancey stumbled across Plato. Yancey, a senior in the college of engineering and applied science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discovered the seminal philosopher's work in the Herbst Program of Humanities. Reading Plato has led her to seek out the works of Nietzsche, C.S. Lewis, and Voltaire on her own. "Now that I've started reading philosophy I just can't stop," she says. Program Director Wayne Ambler says Herbst is based on an approach to education that stresses engaging the complicated questions confrontin...
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