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HNRS 103: Navigating the Human Experience - Pre-modernity

Honors · 4 credits

The Honors Core Sequence explores the remarkable diversity of human experiences, past and present, fosters compassion, and grounds student reflection on what makes a meaningful life. As the first course of the sequence, HNRS 103 introduces the College’s unique approach to the humanities and interdisciplinary inquiry, developing core habits and practices meant to complement each student’s work within their majors and minors. Emphasizing communication, curation, and creation, the course provides opportunities for students to generate the critical thought, analysis, and expression essential to producing rigorous, artistic scholarship in any field. HNRS 103 centers texts from the distant past to understand how and in what ways worlds and worldviews can be both drastically different from our own and built on experiences we clearly share in the present day. Students can expect to engage critically with the concept of "premodernity," practice open dialogue and collaborative inquiry, and share responsibility for sustaining a rigorous and inclusive classroom community. This course has been approved for study abroad. HNRS 103 is only offered on campus in Fall Quarter.

Offered in 6 of the 26 listed terms (Fall 2021 to Fall 2026).

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