Bachelor Degree in Great Ideas at Carthage College |
Carthage College
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Carthage College is a Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above Baccalaureate Colleges--Diverse Fields with 2,778 students in Kenosha, WI.
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This school offers the following degree levels:
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate, Bachelor degree, Masters degree |
| Also, students of this school are eligible for federal aid such as Pell Grants and Direct Loans from the US Department of Education. |
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Carthage College
Bachelor degree
Great Ideas
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The Great Ideas curriculum explores the ideas of some of the best minds of Western thought such as Homer, Plato, Vergil, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and Austen. Through careful reading of great literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious texts, students come to grips with the fundamental and immediately relevant questions they raise: What is love? What is justice? What is the best way of life? What is the physical world? What is knowledge and how do we come to know things? What is faith and what does faith demand? What is happiness? In class, students will grapple with the different and often opposing answers the texts contain in order to clarify, reflect upon, and further develop their own understandings. Students will begin to shape their own responses to these and other questions that necessarily occupy responsible and thoughtful human beings and citizens.
The Great Ideas curriculum introduces students to a broad range of texts while also permitting intense study of certain texts over an extended period of time. As they encounter some of the richest and most challenging texts ever written, students will become proficient at analyzing complex ideas and arguments, at comparing the texts to each other, and at writing and speaking about them clearly and effectively.
Major
The major consists of 40 credits. Five courses are required for all majors. Two are seminars on the foundations of Western thought (it is suggested that students take these two courses as soon as possible); the remaining three narrow the focus somewhat by concentrating respectively on American, mathematical, and natural scientific thought. (It is suggested that students take the mathematics course before the natural science course.)
In addition, majors take four electives, all of which focus on primary texts of Western thought and at least two of which focus on the close reading of a small number of such texts.
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