"Enduring Questions" Courses
These courses address fundamental questions or controversies from different disciplinary perspectives, and focus on exploring how a liberal arts education furthers understanding of complex issues. Courses may be counted toward particular majors and minors at the discretion of departments or programs.
“Enduring Questions” courses prepare students:
- to interpret complex problems or controversies from different points of view;
- to construct effective written arguments that take into account the complexity of a given question and the position of the intended audience;
- to use the perspectives and skills involved in liberal inquiry to analyze and address particular questions or problems; and
- to engage in intellectual inquiry with excitement and a strong sense of relevance.
Recent course offerings:
- Education in a Democratic Society
- Sex and Power
- Steampunk: Remaking History in Postmodern Culture, Literature, and Craft
- Nutrition to Nuclear Power: How is Energy Produced, Distributed, and Used?
- Comparative Electoral Systems
- Biographies of the Buddha (and His Substitute Bodies)
- What is College For? An Interdisciplinary Examination of LIberal Education
- Introduction to Political Thinking
- What is Consciousness?
- The Hedgehog and the Fox: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy