Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar

Catalog description

Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar is a broadly-themed, writing intensive introductory course designed to increase the recognition, appreciation, and capacity to use multiple ways of justifying or defending claims to knowledge and answering eternal questions through study of the humanities such as art, literature, philosophy, and history. Students will learn about different kinds of knowledge claims, how to construct knowledge, and how to evaluate and answer the most difficult questions that have always plagued humankind. The seminar format of the course will prepare Honors students to engage fully in the similarity formatted Honors Foundation sequence courses.