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212 Modern and Post-Modern Civilization and Culture
This course unfolds the history of the West from the birth of the modernity to the present age, through a careful study of historical documents, literary works, and philosophical treatises. By examining the connection between ideas and consequences, the course brings clarity to why and how the West chose to be modern, questioned that choice thereafter, and whether it understands itself today. The course is a core course required of all students. Prerequisite: HUM 110 or instructor approval. (3 credits)
225 Human Sexuality
Sexuality is integral to human existence; human beings are sexual beings. It is a particularly powerful force in human experience. While Christians believe that sexuality is good—it is the gift of a good God—we also recognize that sexuality is experienced not only as the means of joyful connection, but sometimes also as irrational and unruly desire that leads to pain and suffering. Similarly humans are embodied as gendered beings and all human experience is gendered experience. While we were meant to delight in our maleness or femaleness, gender is often experienced through shame and confusion. This course provide an overview of the broad field of human sexuality exploring psychological, developmental, relational, sociocultural, political, ethical, theological, and spiritual aspects of human sexuality and gender. Special attention will be paid to the phenomenology of sexual and gendered experience. (3 credits) (Cross-listed as PSY 225)
300 Critical Theory
This course helps students refine a range of literary-critical skills, including close-reading, and contextual analysis, as well as familiarizes them with historic schools of literary theory , such as structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The student will gain skills in evaluating, reflecting on and writing about both primary literary texts and secondary criticism. A few novels of the instructor’s choosing will help to orient the course around pertinent themes and subject matter. Required for ENG, HIS, and HUM concentrations. Prerequisites: ENG 101, ENG 102, and ENG 201. (3 credits) (Cross-listed as ENG 300)
311 Aesthetics
In this course, we will explore beauty and imagination in human life. The course will include a
brief historical overview of perspectives on beauty and imagination in classical and biblical thought, during the medieval period, during the Renaissance and Reformation, and into the Modern age, with particular attention to the late 19th and 20th century Reformed perspectives. We will continue with a few of the key questions raised in philosophical aesthetics: What is the aesthetic? What is art? What is beauty? We will also turn our attention to beauty and the
imagination in everyday life and in popular culture. (3 credits) (Cross-listed as PHL 311)
313 American Civilization and Culture
This course unfolds the history of the American regime through a careful study of key public documents, speeches, literary works, films, and other cultural artifacts. Special attention is given to the colonial antecedents of the American republic, the principles and practice of the founding generation, controversies among the second and third generations of American statesmen over slavery, and the democratization and the reconceptualization of the American
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