Interdisciplinary Seminars
Honors seminars provide the opportunity for personal interaction in classes limited to 20 students. The program offers four different seminars each year. Seminars are two credit hours and are typically taken during the sophomore and junior years. Professors develop these courses speci?cally for honors students as an opportunity to study a topic in more depth than most classes allow.
Aesthetics
An introduction to the study of art, beauty, and other aesthetic values through an exploration of classical and contemporary theorists, critics, and artists.
Contemporary Global Issues
An introduction to and critical assessment of planetary issues that cannot be addressed effectively by a single nation - issues such as terrorism, global warming, human rights, AIDS, and population pressures.
Creativity: The Birth of a Notion
An examination of creativity as one of the distinguishing marks of God?s image in humans and as an essential component of all artistic expression.
Culture and Health
An analysis of situations in which cross-cultural dilemmas emerge from the interaction of culture and health; models for resolution are created.
Leadership
A study of leadership as a societal role through analysis and observation of leaders and presentation of various approaches to the study of leadership.
Perspectives on Friendship, Love, and Romance
An exploration of friendship, love, and romance from historical, theological, and philosophical perspectives.
Philosophy of Social Science
A philosophical and biblical investigation into the foundations of the social sciences and the role of Christians, if any, in the social science disciplines.
Postmodernism
An interdisciplinary analysis, critique, and response to Postmodern ideas as they are re?ected in aspects of contemporary culture such as architecture, art, education, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and science.
A Rhetoric of Devotion: The Language of Christian Confession, Prayer, and Creed
A study of signi?cant examples of confessions, creeds, and prayers in Christian history, analyzing their rhetorical structures and devotional purposes.
Romanticism and Its Offspring
A study of the development of poetry and music from 1800 to our present Postmodern pop culture in light of the larger philosophical developments of the last two centuries.
Two Philosophies of Teaching and Learning
A workshop in integrative thinking that compares and contrasts the philosophies of education found in Proverbs 1-9 with the writings of John Dewey.
Women in America
An investigation of the place of women in American society since 1860, the expectations placed on them, and the in?uences they have had upon society.
