CORE 115 - Critical Thinking, Identity and Community

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3
This course engages students in thinking critically, missionally, and globally about the ideas that shape our current and future views of ourselves. Students will analyze various historical ideas about the self, consider the differences between human persons and the rest of creation, and begin to understand the factors that shape personal identity and faith. Through in-class presentations, mentored class discussion, and personal and collaborative writing and readings, students will reflect on how individually and as members of communities we can come to understand our communal responsibilities and ourselves. Special attention is given to a Christian perspective of identity and community. Includes a research project. Prerequisite: ENGL 112.