61 courses with the subject HO, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HO 100A Life Well Lived1
The purpose of this course is to provide freshmen Honors Students with the time to reflect upon what it means to pursue a great books liberal education while preparing themselves for their individual vocations after college. It will do so through providing short readings on this topic, engaging in guided discussions, and inviting local leaders and alumni who have integrated the mission of the Honors College into their professional lives as speakers
The purpose of this course is to provide freshmen Honors Students with the time to reflect upon what it means to pursue a great books liberal education while preparing themselves for their individual vocations after college. It will do so through providing short readings on this topic, engaging in guided discussions, and by offering dynamic lectures from professors and local leaders.
In this course students will read the two great Greek epic poems by Homer, the Iliad and The Odyssey as well asthe great Roman epic poem by Virgil, the Aeneid.
In this course students will read a number of Platonic dialogues including the Meno, Ion, Apology, Crito, and the Republic. They will also read the comedy by Aristophanes, The Clouds.
In this course students will read the works of hte great Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Works will include the Oresteia and the Theban trilogy.
In this course students will study the two great histories written by the Ancient Greeks Herodotus' Histories and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Students will also study Xenophon's Memorabilia.
In this course students will study the great Romans and historians, philosophers, and biographers. Authors included at Livy, Cicero, Plutarch, Lucretius and AlFarabi.
Continuation of HO 288. Among authors studied are Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Sartre, and Camus. In-class discussions and lectures.
In this course we will study a number of the most important books in the Old and New Testaments. The books included will be Genesis, Exodus, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, The Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles, and I Corinthians.
In this course students will read works by two of the great philosophers and theologians of the Western Church, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Works included are Confessions, On the Free Choice of Will, On Nature and Grace, and Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles (selections).
In this course students will read the writings of the great Doctors of the Church including St. Athanasius: Life of Anthony; On the Incarnation, St. Basil: Letter to Young Men; St. Jerome (selections)Tertullian; St. Gregory of Nazianzen; St. Anselm: On Why God Became Man; Proslogion; Venerable Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English People; St. Teresa of Avila: Autobiography
This course continues the examination of the trivium begun during the freshman year. This course focuses on the study of rhetoric and poetry. Works read include Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric, Plato’s Phaedrus, and Quintilian’s Colleges of Oratory.
In this course students will read great texts of modern political and theoretical philosophy including Machiavelli The Prince, Bacon The Great Instauration, Hobbes Leviathan, Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy
In this course students will examine Galileo: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences or Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Francis Bacon: The Great Instauration; New Atlantis, Essays;Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method; Meditation on First Philosophy.
This course will examine the important documents of the American Founding and the writings of important American Founders and statesmen. Works will include Articles of Confederation; The Declaration of Independence; The American Constitution;The Federalist Papers; Anti-Federalist Writings; Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln: Writings and Speeches.
Textual analysis courses focus on slow and close reading of a small number of texts. They also focus on clear and precise writing. Textual Analysis I will focus on reading and writing about Shakspeare’s King Lear and Hamlet
PH200 or HO202 In this course students will read great texts of modern political and theoretical philosophy including Rousseau The Social Contract, Hume Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Kant On Perpetual Peace and Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals and Critique of Pure Reason, Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, Hegel Introduction to the Philosophy of History, Mill On Liberty, Marx The Communist Manifesto.
HO 312Great Text in Phil of Law and Social Sci3
In this course students will examine Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws; Mill: Utilitarianism; August Comte: Introduction to Positive Philosophy; Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents ; Max Weber: Science as Vocation; Politics as Vocation
In this course students will examine Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics; The Self-Assertion of University; On Plato's Parable of the Cave Derrida: Plato's Pharmacy Lyotard: The Post-Modern Condition Rorty or Foucault: Discipline and Punish Rosen: Hermeneutics as Politics
In this course students will read the works of great economists as well as philosophers and theologians concerned with economic questions. Works will include Smith: The Wealth of Nations (selections); Tawney: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; Keynes; Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Rise of Capitalism; Hayek Pope Pius XI: Quadragesimo Anno; Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts; and Pope Le XIII: Rerum Novarum
Students in this course will read additional works by the great theologians and philosophers of the Western Church, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Works will include On Christian Doctrine; The City of God (Selections); Summa Theologica & Summa Contra Gentiles (Selections)
Students in this course will read modern Christian thinkers including Pascal: Pensees; Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling Newman: Grammar of Assent; Development of Christian Doctrine; Edith Stein: Finite and Eternal Being or The Science of the Cross; Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Without Roots; "Regensburg Address"; Introduction to Christianity; Spirit of the Liturgy (selections)
Students in this course will examine additional books from the Old and New Testament. Such works will include Deuteronomy; First and Second Samuel & Kings (selections); Daniel; Jonah; Jeremiah; Gospel of John; St. Paul: Epistle to the Romans; Book of Revelation
Textual analysis courses focus on slow and close reading of a small number of texts. They also focus on clear and precise writing. Textual Analysis II will focus on Dante’s Divine Comedy
Poetic Wisdom IV involves a close examination of the four plays included in Shakespeare's Henriad: Richard II,Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. The course will explore a number of questions through these plays including the nature of right rule, political rhetoric, education, virtue and happiness.
This course provides a survey of Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Malory, two great medieval English writers. Special attention will be given to a close textual analysis of their major works.
HO306 or HO311In this course students will read great texts of postmodern and contemporary philosophy including Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Frege “On Sense and Reference,” Heidegger Introduction to Metaphysics and “On Plato’s Parable of the Cave,” Foucault The Order of Things, Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, Lewis “Counterfactuals,” Anscombe “Intention” and “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “Faith,” Kripke Naming and Necessity.
HO306 or HO311 In this course students will read great texts of postmodern and contemporary philosophy including Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Frege "On Sense and Reference," Heidegger Introduction to Metaphysics and "On Plato’s Parable of the Cave," Foucault The Order of Things, Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, Lewis "Counterfactuals," Anscombe "Intention" and "Modern Moral Philosophy" and "Faith," Kripke Naming and Necessity.
HO 340Greek Patristic Thinkers3
A survey of the Greek Church Fathers. The course will include the Apostolic Fathers, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and the Post-Nicene Fathers.
Content may vary from year to year. In-class discussions, lectures, three hours; one semester. (This course fulfills the TH303 Introduction to Theology core requirement.)
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning the philosophy of history, the idea of progress, and challenges to this idea. Works included are J. Bury: The Idea of Progress; John Baillie: The Belief in Progress; Karl Lowith: The Meaning of History; R.G. Collingwood: The Idea of History; George Grant: Time as History; Nietzsche, The Advantages and Disadvantages of History
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning science and technology for human life. Works included are Arthur Eddington: The Expanding Universe ; Werner Heisenberg: Physics & Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science; Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics; The Physicist’s Conception of Nature (selections); George Grant: Technology & Justice; Technology & Empire Jacques Ellul: Politics, Technology, and Christianity Romano Guardini: Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology & the Human Race; The End of the Modern World; Pope Francis I: Laudato Si
Textual analysis courses focus on slow and close reading of a small number of texts. Textual Analysis III focuses on Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning the challenge of modern atheism. Works included are Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity; Nietzsche: The Gay Science (selections);Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov; Sartre, The Flies; De Lubac: The Drama of Atheistic Humanism.
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on poets responses to the challenges of modernity. Works included are Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground; Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; T.S. Eliot: "The Wasteland;" "Four Quartets"; Flannery O’Connor: selected short stories.
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning human freedom, rights, and virtue. Works included are Hegel: The Philosophy of Right; Alasdair Macintyre: After Virtue; Mary Ann Glendon: Rights Talk: Impoverishment of Political Discourse; Charles DeKoninck: The Primacy of the Common Good; Ernest Fortin: Human Rights, Justice, and the Common Good Mill: On Liberty
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning love, friendship, and marriage. Works included are Plato, The Symposium; Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; Sonnets; Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Willa Cather: "Two Friends"; St. John Paul II: Love and Responsibility; Theology of the Body.
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning the philosophy of education. Plato: The Republic (II, III, VII); Confucius: Analects; John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk; Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind; St. John Paul II: Faith and Reason.
This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning globalism, nationalism, and commerce. Works included are Ulrich Beck: What Is Globalization?; Samuel Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations Pierre Manent: A World Beyond Politics?; Democracy Without Nations Aristotle: Politics (II, VII).
A study of major Christian novelists and poets in the modern era. Primary attention will be given to Western writers from the late nineteenth century to the present, though the course may also incorporate earlier modern writers or Christian writers from beyond the West.
A research paper or interpretive analysis relating to one or more great texts undertaken under the direction of the Honors Program Director. Upon completion, the Honors Thesis is publicly defended in the presence of invited faculty and students.
