IGE 1100 - Consciousness and Community (3)

Explores critical questions about interdisciplinarity, learning, the aims of higher education, and the university experience; the nature of human knowledge and the development of human consciousness and community in various regions of the world. Topics will include: myth, symbol, performance, and ceremony; the power of art; prehistory and patterns of living; identities and cultures; cosmologies and cosmogonies; the nature of tragedy; and philosophers and thinkers of the ancient world. Inquiries are grounded in prehistory and the ancient period up to c. 600 C.E. Activity fee may be required.

GE Area(s): A2, C2
Component(s): Lecture
Grading Basis: Graded Only
Repeat for Credit: May be taken only once
Course Category: GE Course
Note(s): Activity fee may be required.