Honors, Core, and General Education courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences explore classic literary, philosophical, and theological texts that engage enduring questions about justice, the good life, free will, evil, personhood, rights, and the nature of government. 

In this special seminar, you will learn how to teach effectively in an honors, core, or general education curriculum.  Topics include:

--  Developing students’ close, critical reading skills;

--  Leading effective discussions;

--  Devising activities and assignments that will engage students;

--  Providing constructive feedback on students’ writing;

--  Treating classic texts in conversation with one another.

--  Locating classic texts in their historical and philosophic context.

This course will be especially helpful for future faculty who will administer or teach in Honors Colleges and Honors Programs or who will teach core and general education courses.

The Stoics

Epicurus

Thucydides

Virgil


Theological Traditions

The Hebrew Bible

The Christian Bible

The Qur'an

Augustine

Aquinas

The Theological Roots of Natural Law and Natural Rights Doctrines


Early Modern Literature and Thought

Cervantes

Dante

Boccaccio

Machiavelli

Shakespeare


The Emergence of Modern Scientific Reasoning

Hobbes

Locke


The Enlightenment

The Scottish Enlightenment

Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought

Austen

Tocqueville

Hegel

Marx

Mill

Darwin

Dostoevsky

Nietzsche


Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought

Freud

DuBois

Woolf