Main Character Energy: Identity, Self and the Real You.

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This class will use anthropological concepts and cross-cultural examples to think about the question “who am I?” We will consider the communities in which we belong and the ones in which we don’t; we will think about who is telling us the answers and who isn’t; we will ask where are ideas about ourselves come from. This course will take the question of identity and use anthropological concepts to ask how we think about the “self,” how that idea came to exist, how it affects us now, and how we can think about this through the lens of the gospel. (Only Open to Wheaton College Summer Institute Students.)