Western Traditions-Renaissance to Modernity

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This course (and its companion, HONR 101 ) opens perspectives on works that have shaped the self-understanding of the West. An interdisciplinary team of professors examines these works from a variety of disciplinary paradigms. Students will examine the recurring questions the works pose to each other and to our own culture: questions about the nature of human existence and destiny, and the characteristic problems and possibilities of humanity's struggle for justice, search for truth and hunger for beauty. These courses are structured as three hours of lecture and three hours of seminar each semester.