This Moodle is a faculty collaboration space for the development of ILA materials and for conversations about ILA itself. Comments? Please contact Mark Willhardt at mwill@monm.edu.
INTG 101G. Introduction to Liberal Arts 4 sem hrs
A seminar required of all freshmen and taught by faculty from a number of different disciplines. Theme-related texts in the course raise basic questions about the variety of human experience, and about personal and shared values and goals. Students are expected to think critically about the issues raised, to participate in discussions, and to write papers on the works studied.
A seminar required of all freshmen and taught by faculty from a number of different disciplines. Theme-related texts in the course raise basic questions about the variety of human experience, and about personal and shared values and goals. Students are expected to think critically about the issues raised, to participate in discussions, and to write papers on the works studied.
INTG 101G. Introduction to Liberal Arts
Our course theme is "Exemplary Lives." We will reflect on texts whose themes allow us to consider the question of what makes a life exemplary. Our discussions will naturally include lives that are flawed and how those flaws may be woven into a life that still might be considered exemplary. Our inquiry will begin with an inward looking autobiography and then move to other modes of discovery. We will consider how others might view a life "from the outside" in a biography. We will investigate the discovery of lives in the past and how individuals have dedicated and defined their exemplary lives in terms of the pursuit of understanding in a discipline. To conclude the course, we will discover how exemplary lives might be understood in different cultures. This final text will also serve as a "bridge" to the sophomore course that you will take, Global Perspectives.
Our course theme is "Exemplary Lives." We will reflect on texts whose themes allow us to consider the question of what makes a life exemplary. Our discussions will naturally include lives that are flawed and how those flaws may be woven into a life that still might be considered exemplary. Our inquiry will begin with an inward looking autobiography and then move to other modes of discovery. We will consider how others might view a life "from the outside" in a biography. We will investigate the discovery of lives in the past and how individuals have dedicated and defined their exemplary lives in terms of the pursuit of understanding in a discipline. To conclude the course, we will discover how exemplary lives might be understood in different cultures. This final text will also serve as a "bridge" to the sophomore course that you will take, Global Perspectives.
INTG 101G. Introduction to Liberal Arts 4 sem hrs
A seminar required of all freshmen and taught by faculty from a number of different disciplines. Theme-related texts in the course raise basic questions about the variety of human experience, and about personal and shared values and goals. Students are expected to think critically about the issues raised, to participate in discussions, and to write papers on the works studied.
INTG 101G. Introduction to Liberal Arts 4 sem hrs
A seminar required of all freshmen and taught by faculty from a number of different disciplines. Theme-related texts in the course raise basic questions about the variety of human experience, and about personal and shared values and goals. Students are expected to think critically about the issues raised, to participate in discussions, and to write papers on the works studied.
A seminar required of all freshmen and taught by faculty from a number of different disciplines. Theme-related texts in the course raise basic questions about the variety of human experience, and about personal and shared values and goals. Students are expected to think critically about the issues raised, to participate in discussions, and to write papers on the works studied.