Thinking globally : writing and reading across the curriculum /

UNIT ONE: A SENSE OF TIME
James S. Trefil: "The First Yesterday"
William F. Allman: "Who We Were: The Origins of Modern Humans"
Daniel J. Boorstin: "The Temptations of the Moon"
Stephen Jay Gould: "Evolution as Fact and Theory"

UNIT TWO: A SENSE OF PLACE
Kenneth C. Davis: Selections from "Don't Know Much About Geography"
Joel Makower: "The Map Unfolds"
Roland-Pierre Paringaux: "A Day in the Life of Catherine Bana"
Yi-Fu Tuan: "A View of Geography"

UNIT THREE: A SENSE OF MODERN HISTORY
Glenn Frankel: "How Europeans Sliced Up Africa"
Paul Gray: "The Astonishing Twentieth Century"
Paul Kennedy: "The (Relative) Decline of America"
Jack Beatty: "Along the Western Front"

UNIT FOUR: A SENSE OF THE WORLD
Charles Lane: "Let's Abolish the Third World"
Deepa Oilapally: "The South Looks North: The Third World in the New World Order"
David Attenborough: "The Furnaces of the Earth"
Alan Ryan: "Twenty-First Century Limited"

UNIT FIVE: A SENSE OF NUMBER
World Bank. "Overview" (extracts) and "What Do We Know About The Poor?" (extracts)
Mort Rosenblum and Doug Williamson: "People: Women and Children First"
United Nations Development Programme UNDP): "Assessing Human Development"
Charles C. Mann: "How Many Is Too Many?"

UNIT SIX: A SENSE OF NATURE
Kenneth Maxwell: "The Tragedy of the Amazon"
Sandra Postel: "Denial in the Decisive Decade"
James Goldsmith: "The Environment
Three Options"
Edward O. Wilson: "Million-Year Histories: Species Diversity as an Ethical Goal"

UNIT SEVEN: A SENSE OF VALUES
Elvin Hatch: "The Evaluation of Culture"
Janusz L. Mucha: "An Outsider's View of American Culture"
Nemi C. Jain: "World View and Cultural Patterns in India."
Kenneth Minogue: "The History of the Idea of Human Rights"

UNIT EIGHT: A SENSE OF BEAUTY
H.W. Janson: "The Artist and His Public"
Robert Penn Warren: "On Reading Fiction"
Joseph Conrad: "Preface" to the novel, "The Nigger of the Narcissus"
Roald Hoffman: "How Should Chemists Think?"

UNIT NINE: A SENSE OF HUMOR
Arthur Asa Berger and Aaron Wildavsky: "Who Laughs at What?"
Laura Bohannan: "Shakespeare in the Bush"
Alleen PaceNilsen: "In Defense of Humor"
Molly Ivens: "Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest"
George Orwell: "Politics and the English Language"