Fundamentals: Issues and Texts

Bachelor's degree

In Chicago (USA)

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Chicago (USA)

The Fundamentals program enables students to concentrate on fundamental questions by reading classic texts that articulate and speak to these questions. It seeks to foster precise and thoughtful pursuit of basic questions by means of (1) rigorous training in the interpretation of important texts, supported by (2) extensive training in at least one foreign language, and by (3) the acquisition of the knowledge, approaches, and skills of conventional disciplines: historical, religious, literary, scientific, political, and philosophical.A richly informed question or concern formulated by students guides the reading of texts. Classic texts are also informed by such questions. For example, Socrates asks the fundamental questions: What is virtue? What is the good? What is justice? Aristotle and Cicero explore the relation of civic friendship to society. Freud asks: What is happiness? Can humans be happy? Milton investigates how poetic vocation may be related to political responsibility. Questions of this nature and others like them are often raised in not only in humanities and social sciences, but also in the physical and biological sciences. Students who are engaged by these questions, who find them both basic and urgent, may wish to continue to explore them more thoroughly and deeply within the structure of this program.All Fundamentals students, working with their advisers, develop their own program of study. Because students come to Fundamentals with diverse questions, they naturally have diverse programs. Examples of programs completed by Fundamentals students are listed below.One student asked the question, “How does telling a story shape a life?” She studied Homer’s Odyssey, Saint Augustine’s Confessions, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Goethe’s Autobiography, Saint Teresa’s Life, and the Bhagavad Gita .A second student asked a question about the ethics of violence: “Is there a just war?” He read Thucydides’ Peloponnesian...

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Subjects

  • Ethics
  • Philosophy
  • Latin

Course programme

Independent Study: Junior Paper
Independent Study: Senior Examination
or credit for the equivalent, determined by petition
Discovering Anthropology: Reading Race
Embodiment: Governance, Resistance, Ethics
Introduction to African Civilization I
Introduction to African Civilization II
Introduction to African Civilization III
Media, Culture & Society
Anthropological Theory
The Lived Body: Anthropology, Materiality, Meaningful Practice
The Vocation of a Scientist
Introduction to Latin American Civilization I
Introduction to Latin American Civilization II
Introduction to Latin American Civilization III
Introduction to the Civilizations of South Asia I
Introduction to the Civilizations of South Asia II
Rethinking the Middle East
Lab, Field, and Clinic: History and Anthropology of Medicine and the Life Sciences
Body & Soul: The Anthropology of Religion, Health, & Healing
Culture, Mental Health, and Psychiatry
Thinking Psychoanalytically: From the Sciences to the Arts
Anthropology and 'The Good Life': Ethics, Morality, Well-Being
Introduction to Art
Photography and Film
Medieval Book: History, Typology, Function
Fate and Duty: European Tragedy from Aeschylus to Brecht
Myth and Its Critics
Introduction to Film Analysis
Cinema and Poetry: The Modern City
Soviet Science Fiction
Film Aesthetics
Topics in EALC: Ghosts & the Fantastic in Literature and Film
Topics in EALC: The Modern Short Story in East Asia
Nature in Korean Literature and Visual Culture
Japanese Cultures of the Cold War: Literature, Film, Music
Korean Literature, Foreign Criticism
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Fiction
Poetry And Being
Some Versions of Apocalypse
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Introduction to Literary Theory
Sonnets from Wyatt to Yeats and Beyond
The Literature of Disgust, Rabelais to Nausea
Histoire, Superstitions et Croyances dans le roman francophone des XXe et XXIe siècles
Introduction à la littérature française III: Littérature à l'Age des Révolutions
Le Regne Des Passions Au XVII
Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Opera in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility
Censorship, Info Control, & Revolutions in Info Technology from the Printing Press to the Internet
Paris Noir: African American Refuge in the City of Light
Introduction to Black Chicago, 1893 to 2010
Poetic Postures of the Twentieth Century
The Worlds of Harlequin: Commedia Dell'arte
Babylon and the Origins of Knowledge
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
A Social History of the Poet in the Arab and Islamic World
Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Human Rights: Philosophical Foundations
Introduction to Political Philosophy
The Problem of Evil
Self-Creation as a Literary and Philosophical Problem
Philosophies of Environmentalism and Sustainability
Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology
Introduction to Phenomenology
History of Philosophy I: Ancient Philosophy
History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
History of Philosophy III: Kant and the 19th Century
Consequentialism from Bentham to Singer
Global Justice and the Politics of Empire
Happiness
Democracy and Equality
Liberalism
A Right to Belong
Democracy's Life and Death
Political Theory in Dark Times
The Intelligible Self
Introduction to Political Theory
Introduction to Constitutional Law
Language, Culture, and Thought
Cultural Psychology
Beyond Good and Evil: The Psychology of Morality
The Psychological Foundations of Wisdom
Psychology for Citizens
The Fact of the Prague Spring: 1949-1989
Russian Short Fiction: Experiments in Form
20th Century Russian & South East European Emigre Literature
Imaginary Worlds: The Fantastic and Magic Realism in Russia and Southeastern Europe
Introduction to Religious Studies
Introduction to the Qur'an
Suffering, Tragedy, and the Human Condition
Religion, Ethics, War, and Resistance
Indian Philosophy I: Origins and Orientations
Indian Philosophy II: The Classical Traditions
Social Structure and Change
Sociological Theory
States, Markets, and Bodies
Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: textos españoles clásicos
Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: textos españoles contemporáneos
Intro. a las lit. hispánicas: textos hispanoamericanos desde la colonia a la independencia
Contemporary Catalan Literature
Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: del modernismo al presente
De capa y espada: Martial Arts Culture in the Spanish Golden Age
Witches, Sinners, and Saints

Fundamentals: Issues and Texts

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