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All MSU faculty and instructors interested in exploring community partnerships are invited to attend a networking luncheon. During the lunch, faculty and representatives from 40 local nonprofit organizations will have the chance to meet each other and explore how they could work together on creating hands-on learning projects for MSU students that help meet local needs!

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED.

Please RSVP by Friday, November 4 to Christie Schichtel at schicht3@msu.edu or 517-353-4400

This workshop will provide graduate students at both the MA and PhD level with information about selecting and forming your advisory committee. All graduate students are encouraged to attend.

• Featuring 40 nonprofits with opportunities for internships, full time jobs, and volunteers

• Explore career paths and connect with industry professionals

• Hear from MSU alumni about their work in nonprofits

•  Learn about student loan forgiveness programs

SUPPORTED BY: COLLEGE OF ARTS & LETTERS, COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION ARTS AND SCIENCES,
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES, CAREER SERVICES NETWORK, COLLEGE OF MUSIC,
CENTER FOR SERVICE-LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION

GSA/Tropos presents a “Library Research Workshop”

Conducted by Mary Jo Zeter, Latin American and Peninsular Studies, and French Studies Librarian

Professor Matt Ferkany, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University

Wising Up: Are there developmental stages on the path to practical intelligence?

In Aristotelian virtue theories, phronesis is foundational to being good. But to date accounts of how this particularly important virtue can emerge are sketchy. This paper explores how far its emergence can be understood stage developmentally, as emerging through successive predictable stages. This paper argues that a currently popular model, the desire alignment theory, is not really a developmental theory in this sense, in part because it takes on board Aristotle’s claim that phronesis is both necessary and sufficient for full virtue. A workable developmental theory must abandon this claim in favor of a weaker view of this relationship in which phronesis is merely necessary for full virtue and not also sufficient. Understood this way phronesis could plausibly be seen as akin to a skill that can be acquired only by passing through novice, intermediate and expert stages.

event flyer (with time & location details) | full schedule of Fall 2016 philosophy colloquia events

The First Year Writing program at MSU holds placement exams for incoming students twice a year.

The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Deric McNish

Shakespeare’s most magical play contains mutinies and treacheries as residents (both human and otherwise) rebel against the powers that restrain them.