Description
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the relationship between
academic inquiry and the problems and questions of our human
experience. A variety of readings, lectures, presentations and
research projects will address such contemporary and historical
concerns related to what it means to be human, what it means to live
in a community, what capacities we have for understanding the world
and what contributions we can make to addressing the questions and
challenges of our time. As the capstone course for the Honors
curriculum, this seminar will require extensive reading, research,
writing and presentation. Prerequisite: selection as Honor student
participant (3 s.h.)