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HUMA 2350 Humanities: Origins

Intensive Socratic seminar that offers readings of great texts from the world of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews. Likely readings would include selections from the Old Testament, Aristotle, Plato, Homer, and Greek drama. For motivated students who are willing to undertake a demanding reading workload. Prerequisites: ENGL 1321, ENGL 1322; CSBS 1311 (or concurrent enrollment) This course will satisfy 3 hours of the ENGL literature requirement.
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HUMA 2355 Humanities: Foundings

Socratic seminar that offers readings of great texts from roughly a hundred years before Christ up through Sr. Augustine’s time. The course will examine parallels and tensions between early Roman and Christian worldviews. Likely readings would include selections from the New Testament, Lucretius, Cicero, Ovid, and church fathers including St. Augustine. For motivated students who are willing to undertake a demanding reading workload. Prerequisites: ENGL 1321, ENGL 1322; CSBS 1312 (or concurrent enrollment) This course will satisfy 3 hours of the ENGL literature requirement.
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HUMA 2360 Explorations

This course is an interdisciplinary, team-taught seminar which combines multiple facets of the liberal arts in order to explore the theories, suppositions, assumptions, and explanations regarding a central topic, issue, or concept of focus. The underlying goal of the course is to gain an understanding of how various disciplines within the arts, humanities, and sciences have had both a symbiotic and antagonistic relationship in regard to explaining and exploring topics of importance.
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HUMA 2x91 Selected Topics in the Humanities

This class explores specialized topics in the Humanities. Variable credit available. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.