Honors 250 Humanities/Ethical Thinking in Global Context
This class engages students in in serious
conversations centered around a series of pivotal authors in our time. The
students explore the recent writings of Tim O'Brien, Andrei Maxine, J.M.
Coetzee's, Philip Gourevitch, Abraham Verghese, and Arundhati Roy and, in the
process find their own voices in writing and discussion articulating the
ethical issues and choices of today's global times.
Humanities/Ethical Thinking in Global Context
His First Year Symposium -- The Fourth Seal: Epidemics and
Society From the Black Death to AIDS takes an inter-disciplinary look of how
society has responded to epidemics from medieval times to the present. |
The Senior Seminar -- War and the Memory of War in the Last Century --
examines how the First World War, Second World War, Vietnam War, and the wars of the
ex-Yugoslavia shaped the memory and culture of European and American civilization. |