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ISF 10 - Enduring Questions and Great Books of the Western Tradition

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate CLS - College of Letters and Science

Subject

ISF

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Department

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

Course Level

Undergraduate

Course Title

Enduring Questions and Great Books of the Western Tradition

Course Description

This course is a broad survey of major canonical works ("Great Books") emphasizing from the premodern traditions of Western Civilization since the Greeks. These texts offer responses to central questions that, across the disciplinary divides, continue to inform contemporary work in the social sciences and the humanities. By considering these enduring questions and the responses of writers in Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Europe, we seek to examine core issues of the liberal arts as they find expression across what would later become disciplinary divisions.

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Grading Basis

Default Letter Grade; P/NP Option

Method of Assessment

Written Exam

Instructors

Bhandari

Breadth

Philosophy and Values

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Credit Restriction Courses. Students will receive no credit for this course if following the course(s) have already been completed.

Course Objectives

To offer students an intense engagement with canonical thinkers of the western tradition, demonstrating the enduring nature of their queries and questions across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to acquire a familiarity with many core debates in the western intellectual tradition, and to be able to identify the pre-disciplinary and interdisciplinary roots of contemporary inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.

Prior Terms Offered

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