Professor Sosin will teach Spring Breakthrough again this year. As a natural sequel to last year's "Socrates on Trial", this year students will build a bicycle from scratch! Working with a renowned framebuilder, students will cut steel, file and prep, fit tubes and lugs, and braze it all up--three days down. On the fourth, we will go for a leisurely ride (bikes provided), have a picnic, brew some coffee, enjoy a bit of two-wheeling comradery. On day five we will work with a local master mechanic to build up the complete bike in time to be ridden in to the Spring Breakthrough closing ceremony. When we are not working together with our hands we will learn about some fascinating moments in the social and economic history of the bicycle, bicyclists, and bicycle fabricators. See https://undergrad.duke.edu/programs/spring-breakthrough/2018-courses and https://www.youtube.com/embed/M4XFZ3e80R4?autoplay=1
Classical Studies
