2 courses with the subject HUMN, 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.
HUMN 2171The Quest for a Meaningful Life I. The4
greatness of a society might be determined in numerous ways—the sophistication of its political system, its military prowess, its artistic and scientific achievements. It might be said that what lies behind its aspirations and achievements, what drives these, in fact, is its definition of the “good life,” with all its complexity of meaning. In this 2-semester course, we will survey those societies that have shaped the modern world and examine how they have defined the good and meaningful life, both in the goals they have sought s.h. to achieve and in their literary legacy. In doing so, we hope to challenge students to consider their own definition of a meaningful life in the light of their own culture and of the Christian Gospel ..........................
greatness of a society might be determined in numerous ways—the sophistication of its political system, its military prowess, its artistic and scientific achievements. It might be said that what lies behind its aspirations and achievements, what drives these, in fact, is its definition of the “good life,” with all its complexity of meaning. In this 2-semester course, we s.h. will survey those societies that have shaped the modern world and examine how they have defined the good and meaningful life, both in the goals they have sought to achieve and in their literary legacy. In doing so, we hope to challenge students to consider their own definition of a meaningful life in the light of their own culture and of the Christian Gospel .......................... 4 s.h. 291
