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Honors Courses

Fall 2022

Honors FYS Courses:

From Borges to HTML  [Fabrizio Cilento], Tues & Thurs 4:10 p.m.-5:35 p.m.

Philosophy and Apologetics of C.S. Lewis [Dr. Robin Collins] Tues & Thurs 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Read Dangerously [Dr. Kerry Hasler-Brooks] Mon, Wed & Fri 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Patriotism? [Dr. Jim LaGrand] Tues & Thurs 11:55 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.

Democracy in America: The Critical Citizen [Robin Lauermann] Mon, Wed & Fri 11:00 a.m.- 11:50 a.m.

Give Peace a Chance: Explorations in the Christian Peace Tradition [Dr. Devin Manzullo-Thomas] Tues & Thurs 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Blacks in Classical Studies [Anika Prather], asynchronous class

The Old Order Amish and Us [Dr. David Weaver-Zercher] Tues & Thurs 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

The Art and Practice of Personal Narrative [Dr. Cynthia A. Wells] Tues & Thurs 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

 

 

 

MESSIAH UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM

Course Descriptions - Fall 2022
*honors sophomores and juniors should consider taking their single honors ID course

HONORS ID COURSES

 

ENGAGING A PLURALISTIC WORLD (EPW)    Pluralism

CRN #2184 – SOAN 356H HONORS:  Social Inequality (3 credits)

Instructor:  Dr. Charlene Lane   Class time:  TR 1:20-2:35 p.m.

Course description:  This course will provide students with an understanding of the social and historical contexts and the mechanisms which perpetuate prejudice, discrimination, and inequality in the United States and globally. This course prepares students to contemplate issues of advocacy in efforts to promote human rights, social justice, and economic justice with individuals, social systems, and structures. Topics will include race, gender, class, culture, religion, disabilities, sexual orientation, and other areas of marginalization.

 

NON-WESTERN

CRN # - 2134 - PHIL 318H HONORS: Asian Philosophy (3 credits)

Instructor:  Dr. Robin Collins    Class time:  TR 10:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.

Course description:  Investigation of the most important Asian philosophers and schools of philosophy.

 

 

 

SENIOR HONORS SEMINAR

 

Note:  

  • There will be at least one section of HONR 497 offered each semester
  • HONR 497 fulfills the Honors Program requirement for the Senior Honors requirement.
  • It does not meet an ID World Views requirement. 
  • This course is open to Juniors and Seniors.

 

CRN #1530 - HONR 497 HONORS:  

Senior Honors Seminar – Architecture of Happiness: Tracing Virtue and Vice from Homer to Robinson

(3 credits)

Instructor:  Dr. Christopher Perrin and Professor Christine Perrin   Class time:  Monday evenings, 6:15-9:15 p.m.

Course description:  This course will explore the ways humans have viewed and sought to construct the good life—often failing and sometimes succeeding. Beginning with Homer, we will examine the ideals of virtue and their accompanying vices embodied in the stories of the Iliad and Odyssey. Our pilgrimage will follow these stories from Homer to Virgil to Dante and other thinkers who have worked to net this slippery fish, happiness.  We will arrive by reading Marilynne Robinson’s trilogy Gilead, Home and Lila.  Throughout we will be asking what we might expect of our own endeavors to find blessedness. We will aim to apply the insights we gain to our own lives as we consider the odyssey of the last four years and the years ahead.