Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
WSCV-0005
Organization's ID:
403I
Location:
Online
Length:
16 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 6 Liberal Arts, Literature or Great Books
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the greatest authors in the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from Chaucer through Cervantes, which are foundational to Western civilization.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Engage in philosophical, poetic, and rhetorical reading, writing, speaking, reasoning, textual interpretational, and conversational skills through critical reading and discussions of Great Books
  • Have a deeper understanding of the persisting questions of human existence through philosophical conversation with seminar participants
  • Discuss, reference and in varying measure understand the specific works studied in regard to their specific historical and cultural contexts
  • Evaluate and synthesize ideas found across several readings by different authors
  • Integrate the contributions of various disciplines studied towards understanding such questions
  • Take part in the ongoing intellectual dialogue about the great ideas contained in the most influential books of Western civilization, often called the Great Conversation, by which contemporary life is knowingly or unknowingly governed

General Topics:

  • Literature, philosophy, history, ethics, politics, liberal arts, and psychology
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials