BLS-299 CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LIBERAL STUDIES
This course examines the history of ideas seminal to civilization as represented in the original writings of the world's most influential thinkers. The course stresses close analytical readings of cross-disciplinary texts structured around central concepts such as justice, wealth and poverty, education, mind, and nature. Adult learners enrich their understanding of these topics based on their own experience with a historical investigation, producing a broad context for framing future studies of enduring issues in the liberal arts. (Required of all Bachelor of Liberal Studies students). This course is for students majoring in the Bachelor of Liberal Studies only.