Fall 2023

Incipit vita nova: The Implications of Origins

Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-133

Faculty

Paul V. Rockwell (Section 01)

Description

Incipit vita nova: The Implications of Origins.  Why do cultures seek to understand or to articulate beginnings?  What cultural significance is to be attached to a given representation of a beginning?  This course will study texts that purport to describe cosmic, natural, historical, political or personal origins.  In addition, the course will investigate the cultural implications of the desire to seek or to establish origins.  Readings will be drawn from Plato, the Bible, Bernardus Silvestris, Virgil, Dante, the anonymous Roman d’Eneas, Galileo, Rousseau, Jefferson, Descartes, Freud, and Nietzsche.

Fall semester.  Professor Paul Rockwell.

How to handle overenrollment: null

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: an emphasis on written work, readings, oral presentations, group work.

FYSE 133 - LEC

Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM LYCM 202
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM LYCM 202

Offerings

Other years: Offered in Fall 2023