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  • HONOR 2102: IT: The Middle Ages

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores the development of canonical literature, philosophy, drama, and theology from the beginnings of the Common Era to roughly the seventeenth century CE, during which time religious thinkers, poets, artists, and politicians formulated many ideas and values that still captivate people's imagination even today. Works discussed usually include St. Augustine, the Qur'an, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare, but may differ somewhat from section to section according to the instructor's discretion. Themes that are covered may include: free will and divine justice, the concept of Nature, the Crusades and the conflict between Christianity and Islam, the notion of sin and hell, Renaissance humanism and secularism, and the Reformation. The course stresses careful reading, critical thinking, and good writing. Students interested in learning particular details of the texts and topics to be studied are urged to attend the Honors Preview or contact the instructors directly. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2103: IT: Modernity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class studies the modern period in which we live, as influenced by the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and/or other movements and periods. Readings are drawn from canonical writings in science, literature, history, and philosophy, among other genres. The course typically focuses on issues such as the development of modern science and technology, the tension between science and religion, the modern state and totalitarianism, the impact of evolutionary theory and developments in psychology on conceptions of the person, and so forth, subject to the individual instructor's discretion. Readings may include Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jane Austen, Freud, Marx, Virginia Woolf, and Sartre, but will vary somewhat from one section to another. The course stresses careful reading, critical thinking, and good writing. Students interested in knowing more about authors and themes to be covered are urged to attend the Honors Preview or contact the instructors directly. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2104: IT Cross-Cltrl Dialogue

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Through readings, including poetry, history, and philosophy, and other artifacts (works of art), drawn from at least two different traditions (e.g., Africa, Asia/China, the West, among others), the course examines how different traditions share commonalities, and also how they diverge. The issues addressed may include, but aren't limited to: political ideals, conceptions of virtue, attitudes toward nature, views about family, and religious beliefs Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2105: Reacting to the Past

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In Honors 2105 students will learn by taking on roles in two games based on classic texts and historical events, as well as by doing some traditional coursework. One game, "The Threshold of Democracy Athens in 403 BCE." centers on important issues such as democracy, citizenship, and warfare and includes readings from Plato, Thucydides, and Zenophon. The second, "Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587" introduces Confucian thought as applied to issues of governance during the Ming dynasty. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2106: Reacting to the Past

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class uses elaborate role-playing games to learn about important moments in history and the political, religious, economic, and social forces surrounding them. Immersing oneself in a role allows one to recognize that history is not predetermined but is contingent on individual motivations and actions. Students read primary texts, write research papers, and give speeches and engage in debates to sway others to support their causes. Like all Intellectual Traditions courses, reacting teaches students to read critically, write and speak persuasively, and collaborate with others in a truly experiential and community-building way.
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  • HONOR 2107: Reacting to the Past

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores important ideas about the roles of science, religion, and government by recreating the historical contexts that shaped them. Reacting to the Past consists of two games centered around the Trial of Galileo and the French Revolution. Students are assigned roles, study classic texts and history, and build learning communities. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2108: Visual & Media Literacy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    As a culmination of the historical IT series, this course is designed to help students think critically and expansively about the 20th and 21st centuries, including the transition from what are broadly called 'modernisms' to the high-, late- or post-modern era to the current forms of technological mediation in which we are now firmly situated. Our common texts will include multiple genres of writing, sound, and visual representation and draw upon various disciplines, such as architecture and art history, sociology and cultural theory, media studies, philosophy, as well as science and technology studies. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2109: Honors Cor in Int Trad

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This IT course will examine classical through contemporary texts dealing with perspectives on nature as science, spirit, quest, and commodity. Readings will be supplemented by philosophical and practical considerations of environmental conflict and resolution, climate change, and issues of speciesism. The course will be inquiry-based and will emphasis close readings of literary texts, as well as ecological sites. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2110: Honors Cor in Int Trad

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    A continuation o the studies initiated in Honors Core in Intellectual Traditions: through an Ecological Lens I. This IT course will examine classical through contemporary texts dealing with perspectives on nature as science, spirit, quest, and commodity. Readings will be supplemented by philosophical and practical considerations of environmental conflict and resolution, climate change, and issues of speciesism. The course will be inquiry-based and will emphasis close readings of literary texts, as well as ecological sites. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2111: Poets & Philosophers

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Honors 2111 is taught by a literary historian and a historian of science, who will bring their varying perspectives to the large questions of human existence as first framed from 3000 BCE to the Roman empire. Important topics will include the benefits of change vs. stasis, the origins of substances and life, competing and changes bases for authority and claims to truth, and the way human social structures and values shape pursuit of knowledge about the natural world. This class is the first in a series of three semester-long classes that will look broadly at the kinds of questions scientists and humanists ask and the limitations of both. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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