Courses

This course emphasizes detailed study of some formative works dealing with the organization of human societies; the patterning of cultures and culture as an instrument of continuous human creativity; and the adaptation of persons and personalities to life in ordered communities. Fulfills the Social Science requirement.

The course will delve into the ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Max Weber – three foundational thinkers in the social sciences. Their ideas have helped us define the modern predicament, and shape how we think about inequality, freedom, and work.

Human Origins: From Early Primate Beginnings to Evolutionary Medicine course fulfills the Biological Science requirement.

This course will focus on the nervous system, how the nervous system produces behavior, how we use our brain every day, and how neuroscience can explain the common problems afflicting people today.

This course will explore the nature of science, the basic laws that govern the physical world, and how we discovered them, from Democritus and atoms to Einstein and quantum mechanics.

This course presents America's major writers of short fiction in the 20th century. This course fulfills the Humanities requirement.

Sad, but true. Many folks who enjoy reading fiction, drama, and memoirs feel considerably less comfortable with poetry. Our course will address this anxiety head on. Through close-textual analyses and strategic contextual sorties, we will examine and experience why poetry has provided pleasure to peoples throughout human history.

This course will consider the theological problem of evil, starting with the Book of Job. We will next investigate the problem from the perspectives of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, for whom evil was the major, stumbling block in the proof of God’s existence.

This course offers an introduction to advanced study in the Humanities across a range of fields, including poetry, philosophy, fiction, and film.

This course will trace the development of our view of the universe starting with the Earth-centered cosmology of Aristotle, through the Sun-centered universe in the Copernican revolution, to the modern big bang theory, and recent speculations about a quantum origin of the universe. Fulfills the Physical Science requirement.

This class considers how sickness, care, and wellbeing have been differently understood and embodied over time and between different cultural settings.

This course draws primarily on perspectives from the anthropology, sociology, and history of medicine and health to examine a range of questions raised by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

This course will introduce students to the practice of ethnographic field work, or participant observation research. Fulfills the Social Science requirement.

This course focuses on questions of ethics, leadership, and happiness on the journey home.

The project of nation building, of bringing a national identity into existence, is often regarded as a defining aspiration of many ancient and modern epic poems.

This course provides key perspectives on how the Liberal Arts can bring value to business in several classic areas: Leadership development, Organizational Behavior and Management, Advertising and Marketing, and Strategy.

This course is an introduction to the study of poetry, providing both the technical knowledge and tools useful for appreciating poetry, as well as an overview of the history of world poetry. We will read and discuss some of the finest and most memorable poems ever written. Fulfills the non-Western requirement.

This course examines pivotal issues and moments in U.S. history, where morals, justice and power took on heightened urgency, becoming focal points of public debate.

We will start this course by looking at sociologist Georg Simmel's "The Metropolis and Mental Life."  Then we will explore how writers and filmmakers have tried to capture this experience of city life in different genres. Fulfills an Elective requirement.

This course offers an introduction to the intellectual, social, and political transformations that are reflected in the astounding explosion of artistic creativity that occurred in Florence in the years 1400-1540.