HON 3130 Honors Religion and Culture

3 Hours

Prerequisites: HON 1120

Honors Religion and Culture is a interdisciplinary, problem-based, topical seminar that features a particular problem or issue and includes an experiential learning component. Using a substantial number of readings, primarily from one discipline, but also from two or three other complementary disciplines that relate to the problem under exploration. The course examines what might it look like to be both a responsible citizen of this nation and this work and a curious truth-seeker or person of faith. The course explores how our political leanings and our faith commitments mutually inform one another, as well as ways such commitments have taken shape and produced both conflict and harmony in the course of our nation’s history.