Fulfills the second half of the Western Culture component of the University Core Curriculum. Students should understand and contemplate the major ideas presented in the great works of philosophy, literature, and fine and performing arts of Western Europe and the Americas. Marx, Darwin, World War I and II, Existentialism, Jung, Modernism, Positivism, Compte, Naturalism, Realism, Secularism, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Picasso, Freud, autobiography. Papers are graded on both content and form. Content includes the student's ability to develop an idea and create an essay that meets assignment requirements to make a finished project within the allotted period of time.
Form includes presentation, grammar, organization.
This includes but is not limited to absences due to illness, family crises, jobs and childcare. Both the student and the instructor are responsible for keeping track of absences. Students who are chronically late should expect to be penalized with an appropriate number of absences to be determined by the instructor. Students should assume that each class meeting will require at least 3 hours of homework. In class, students are required to actively participate by offering relevant comments when appropriate.