Philosophy of Education (PHED-UE)
PHED-UE 10 Learning and The Meaning of Life (4 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
What is the most important thing to which I should be devoting my life? This course explores the existential concerns animating questions like this, ones that inspire our lifelong, liberal learning. It focuses on classic works in Western philosophy, literature, and film and examines them as texts of education. Class meetings will be devoted to a mix of lecture and discussion.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Texts & Ideas
Grading: Ugrd Steinhardt Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
PHED-UE 1017 Literature, Art, and the Path of Life (4 Credits)
This course studies an experience that is at the heart of the original idea of
education: the experience of living a life as if one were journeying along a path.
With the aid of works of literature and the arts. we will examine various feature
of this experience and their philosophical implications. Liberal Arts Core/CORE-MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures
Grading: Ugrd Steinhardt Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No