Courses
Western Heritage is at the core of the Carthage Plan. All Carthage students must complete two Western Heritage seminar courses. These courses are typically taken during the fall and spring semesters of a student's freshman year. Students must successfully complete the first seminar before advancing to the second seminar.
The Heritage Program has several student fellows each term to assist students in their Heritage courses. The fellows offer weekly study sessions as well as individual appointments.
COR 1100
The Intellectual History of Western Heritage I
Writing Intensive
4 credits
Instructors: Staff
In Western Heritage I, key texts are used to illustrate how themes and ideas develop over the course of Western philosophy, political thought, spirituality, science and literature. Texts are read and discussed in seminar with a sense of chronology to reveal how thinkers over time have borrowed from, adapted and challenged ideas from preceding generations. Course themes may include Justice, Love, Happiness, the One and the Many, Order and Disorder, or Faith and Reason. For 2011-12, the theme is Journeys and Transformations. Students will examine course texts in relation to this theme through commentary provided in the Western Heritage Guide, supplemented from time to time with field trips, guest speakers and experts on campus.
COR 1110
The Intellectual History of Western Heritage II
Writing Intensive
4 credits
Instructors: Staff
As a continuation of Western Heritage I, course seminars develop the semester-long conversation begun in the fall, where the ideas of the ancient world come to be read against the emerging intellectual worlds of the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our modern era. As the range and treatment of ideas from different fields and time periods proceed, the course draws together the divergent strands that compose the complex history of Western Thought. Students continue to examine course texts in relation to the theme Journeys and Transformations through commentary provided in the Western Heritage Guide, supplemented from time to time with field trips, guest speakers and experts on campus.
