PHI 3600 - Currents in American Thought: Variable Topics

3(3 + 0)

Prerequisite: PHI 3020

After a brief consideration of the methodological implications of intellectual and social history, this course could consider classical figures (such as Edwards or Emerson) and influential intellectual traditions in American culture (such as Puritanism or Transcendentalism); or seemingly peripheral individuals (such as Douglass or Dubois) and the more subterranean impulses stemming from traditionally marginalized groups of diverse ethnic, cultural, gender or sexual communities (for example, abolitionism and the problems connected with slavery, race, and gender in American culture).This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.