(Some) Great Books I - HONORS

Students must be accepted into the Honors Program to enroll in the following course.

Course Description

Class work in this course consists of student-centered discussion of (some) texts from the western classical tradition -- Greece and Rome.  The seminar is team-led by a philosphy and a literature teacher, and we read, among others, Homer's Iliad, some Greek dramatists, Plato and Aristotle, Latin philosophy and natural science, and Virgil's Aeneid.  Our emphasis is on learning how to read and understand any historical, philosophical, literary or scientific text.  This course counts as an honors philosophy class; students are expected to enroll in HON 270: (Some) Great Books II in spring 2009; HON 270 will look at medieval and early modern texts, and will count as a ‘literary, visual, or performing arts’ Liberal Learning class.