First knowings; origin of consciousness, myth, symbol, performance, and ceremony; prehistory and patterns of living, making of meaning; university experience. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: EPT score of 151or better. Activity fee may be required.
The nature of tragedy; the ways of warriors, prophets, tyrants, philosophers, and citizens; ethics, convictions, and the sacred. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 120. Activity fee may be required.
Visions of hell, politics, social order, and redemption; constructions of the sacred and secular selves; journey of the soul; private lives and public spaces. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 121. Activity fee may be required.
Explorations of the multiple ways of constructing knowledge (science, art, the sacred as ways of knowing); knowledge as historically grounded in the era of the New World colonial conquest (national artistic cultures, scientific revolution, indigenous sacred articulations of space and time, perceptions of Self and Other). 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 122. Activity fee may be required.
Explorations of urban and global issues (social space; domination, resistance, and revolution; traditional/transitional cultures). Inquiries are historically grounded in the Enlightenment era (rise of individual rights, spirit of revolution, restructuring social, conceptual, and scientific structures). 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 220. Activity fee may be required.
Explorations of technology and human purpose; science and scientists; divergent thinking, gender, genius, and anomalies; emergent ethical frameworks; inquiries are historically grounded in the Industrial Age; individual and collective ideologies; romanticism and realism. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 221. Activity fee may be required.
Explorations of environmental epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and biographies; communities and cultures which offer life-enhancing practices; environmental education and responsibility; inquiries are historically grounded in the modern and postmodern worlds; global thinking and doing. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 222. Activity fee may be required.
Research and presentation of an interdisciplinary project which extends and synthesizes themes from the IGE experience. 4 lecture discussions. Prerequisite: IGE 223.
Cultural critiques of science and technology from the perspectives of philosophy, literature and visual arts; representations of 19th century American industrialization and investigation of 20th century proliferations; parallels between modern science and versions of science dating from the ancient world. Activity fee may be required. 4 lecture/ discussions. Prerequisites: one GE course from each of the following Sub-areas: A1, A2, A3 and C1, C2, C3. GE Synthesis course for area C4.
