Course Type: College Credit CoursesCourse Length: Full TermCourse Number: UNIV 3581Credit Hours: 3Subject: University StudiesCourse Description: View Description This course is an interdisciplinary Humanities course. It uses a variety of Humanities disciplines, most notably history, literature, philosophy and religion, to examine the themes of faith, reason and imagination, the three distinct ways by which people have claimed to know – to obtain knowledge, meaning, or truth. Our proposed subject of study can be helpful in clarifying how each one of us comes to answer questions, solve problems, and make decisions that are very personal to us. We shall be dealing directly with personal topics such as the existence and nature of God, right and wrong and love. We will examine a number of texts on all three of the ways of knowing. Among those under the heading of faith are selections from the Christian New Testament, the Muslim Qur'an and Hadith, and Aquinas; under the heading of reason, selections from Descartes, Hume, and the Confucian tradition; and under the heading of imagination, Romantic poets such as Blake and Wordsworth and the novelist Dickens. Prerequisites: None