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4.00 Credits
Seeks to help students understand the key movements that have influenced the lives of people in Europe and North America up through the Enlightenment. Students explore with insight and empathy the writings and lives of those who have influenced the course of world societies. Prepares students to appreciate and evaluate the diverse ways in which Christians have interacted with Western culture by shaping, absorbing, and criticizing the culture of the West. The Humanities Program The Humanities Program is a four-course sequence consisting of GES145, GES147, GES244, and GES246. It emphasizes in-depth reading, discussion, and analysis of texts and works of art. Students experience literature, theology, philosophy, music, theatre, and art in historical context. They learn the foundations of theology and see how Christians have shaped and responded to Western culture. The four-course sequence must be taken in order, and replaces five courses in the General Education CWILT option [GES110 College Writing, GES125 Introduction to the Creative Arts, GES130 Christianity and Western Culture, THE201 Christian Theology, and a Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course]. To derive full benefit from the Humanities Program, students should complete the entire program: Western Humanities in Christian Perspective I-IV. See the Academic Information section of this catalog for further information. Contact the director of the Humanities Program for details.
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4.00 Credits
The Greco-Roman World through the Enlightenment The first course in the Humanities Program focuses on great writings and works of art, music, and theatre from the Greeks through the Middle Ages. Likely figures for study include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, and Dante.
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4.00 Credits
The second course considers significant figures, movements, and texts in the Renaissance and the Reformation era. Likely figures for study include Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Anabaptist writers, Renaissance and baroque artists, and Shakespeare.
Prerequisite:
GES145. Completing GES147 replaces GES125 Introduction to the Creative Arts. - continued on next page -
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1.00 Credits
Exploration of pastoral ministry as a career through job shadowing. Reflection on area for pastoral ministry. Component of Antioch Way Pre-Seminary Initiatives.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of sexuality through the life cycle, focusing on the nature of sexual and reproductive functioning, sexual self-understanding, sexual dimensions of interpersonal relationships, and ethical dimensions of sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Broaden student knowledge of WWII, while enhancing understanding of leadership principles and character development, by studying the experiences of Easy Company, as recounted by Steven Ambrose in his book, Band of Brothers. Learners integrate transformational leadership and biblical and contemporary texts on leadership.
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4.00 Credits
The European Enlightenment and American Culture to 1877 The third course begins in the European Enlightenment and culminates in a research paper on American culture through the Reconstruction era. Likely figures for study include Descartes, Edwards, Bach, Beethoven, Austen, Burke, Paine, The Federalist, de Tocqueville, American Transcendentalist writers, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln. Prerequisite: GES147. Completing GES244 replaces GES110 College Writing and GES130 Christianity and Western Culture.
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4.00 Credits
Modernity and Contemporary Western Culture The final course in the Humanities Program begins with the 19th century Industrial Revolution and ends near the present. It includes a major paper on theology. Likely subjects for study include Marx, Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, jazz, modern art, Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Prerequisite:
GES244. Completing GES246 replaces THE201 Christian Theology and a Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course.
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3.00 Credits
Humankind has drastically altered the biosphere over the past 300 years. This course examines the processes of transformations in human populations, land, water, and climate over the course of this time. Discussion of how these transformations affect our lives and relationship with nature and how we should respond to these transformations.
Prerequisite:
Laboratory Science (D) course; Mathematics (M) course.
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3.00 Credits
Despite amazing scientific and technical successes in medicine in the last century, diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria confront us today with both national and global healthcare crises. Living with the lethal microbes responsible for these diseases requires careful inquiry about these organisms and their wide impact on human society.
Prerequisite:
Laboratory Science (D) course; Mathematics (M) course.
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