 To graduate from the Great Books Honors College, each student must complete a sequence of four courses (Great Books I-V) designed to provide a solid foundation for future study and reflective reading of classical literature. Generally, students taking these Great Books courses are exempted from
other courses normally required for their degree programs. The goal of these exemtions is to provide an honors education within the framework of the student's normal degree plan. Thus, there are not more courses required (with the exception of Senior Thesis), but higher quality courses.
Further, honors students are able to take two honors contract courses,
which are chosen based on dialogue between the students and their depratments. These courses are generally already required for the students' majors. Please see the
contract
courses information and policies for more information about these courses.
Finally, students graduating from the Great Books Honors College will complete a Senior Thesis. Ideally, students will decide on a thesis topic within their first year of the Great Books sequence courses (Great Books I-V). This will enable the students to write material for their thesis as part of their other honors courses. Thus, when the student actually takes the Senior Thesis course, little more remains to be done than sew together what has already been researched.
Thus, the typical modifications to a student's degree plan will be as follows.
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- EH 1301 - English Composition I
- EH 1302 - English Composition II
- HY 2301 - Western Civilization I; EH Lit; Hist
- AR 1331/MU 2320/TH 2300/HU - Art/Music/Theatre Appreciation Intro.
to Hum. WHI; WH II; WH III
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- GB 1301 - Great Books I ~ Utilizing the discussion approach, this course explores works of literature, philosophy, religion, and political thought of the ancient world. Authors include, but are not limited to, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil and Augustine. The course requires intensive work in reading, writing, and oral presentations.
- GB 1302 - Great Books II ~ Utilizing the discussion approach, this course explores works of literature, philosophy, religion, and political thought of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Authors include, but are not limited to, Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, More, Luther, Calvin, and Shakespeare. The course requires intensive work in reading, writing, and oral presentations.
- GB 2301 - Great Books III ~ Utilizing the discussion approach, this course explores works of literature, philosophy, religion, and political thought of the Enlightenment and Romantic era. Authors include, but are not limited to Descartes, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, and Austen. The course requires intensive work in reading, writing, and oral presentations.
- GB 2302 - Great Books IV ~ Utilizing the discussion approach, this course explores works of literature, philosophy, religion, and political thought of the modern world. Authors include, but are not limited to Kierkegaard, Marx, Dostoevysky, Sartre, Camus, Brecht, Auden, Eliot, Nietzsche, and Solzhenitsyn. The course requires intensive work in reading, writing, and oral presentations.
- GB 3301 - Great Books V ~ Utilizing the discussion approach, this
course explores works of Christian formation through the centuries. Authors include,
but are not limited to, Ireneaus, Polycarp, Athanasius, Ignatius, Gregory of Nazianzus,
Basil the Great, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, St. Benedict, St. John of the Cross,
St. Teresa of Avila, The Cloud of Unknowing, Ignatius of Loyola, and Thomas a Kempis.
The course requires intensive work in reading, writing, and class discussion.
- Senior Thesis - Great Books Senior Thesis will be taken one semester
prior to or the anticipated semester of the student’s anticipated graduation. This
course is only for those who are in good standing in the Great Books Honors college
and shall culminate in the student’s thesis or final project.
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