This course is for students of any major to explore what human care and flourishing mean in a variety of healthcare and caring professions.
This course is designed to help students develop advanced skills for producing accessible and effective medical, scientific, and technical written documents and oral presentations. Focusing on audience analysis, the students will apply good writing and speaking principles to the professional work common in different organizations.
This course surveys the most pressing ethical issues that are emerging in the field of biomedical research and medical care. It includes ethical theory training from which consistent principled medical decisions can be made. Although the course provides insights from different ethical theories, it will be taught from a Christ-centered ethic.
This course will equip students to navigate the dynamic healthcare landscape in a pluralistic society with sensitivity, skill, and a commitment to whole-person care that aligns with the core values of the Christian faith, fostering an environment where students develop a deep sense of compassion and empathy towards those experiencing illness, suffering, or disability. This course will explore how spiritual beliefs and practices can offer resources for meaning-making, coping, resilience, and recovery in the face of healthcare challenges, fostering a sense of hope and purpose even amidst suffering.
A course designed to introduce students to medical humanities. The course is an interdisciplinary approach to looking at medical ethics and culture that will focus on the humanities and especially philosophy. Subjects to be covered may include the concept of personhood at the beginning and end of life, the arts and medicine, the historical development of medicine, theology of medicine, and the philosophy of science and medicine.
This course introduces students to the essential legal issues within the healthcare industry and the medical field, including negligence, liability, and malpractice.
This course offers students the opportunity to work with a mentor in a health-related organization. In collaboration with their mentors, students will develop a medical humanities research project that will be presented to the public.
Topics are selected on basis of student need and academic qualifications of staff. If regular lectures are not given, a minimum of 30 hours of work for each hour credit must be included. This course may be repeated for credit.
This course explores the historical and practical importance of the Trivium as a fundamental part of teaching and learning. It incorporates the basic elements of the Western tradition and the liberal arts, focusing them around the disciplines of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Spies appear in some of humankind’s oldest stories; in modern culture, the spy is viewed as both hero and antihero. The moral and political ambiguities of espionage fiction are considered parables of the moral dilemmas of modern humankind.
This course covers the Old South (American South) from the pre-contact period to the beginning of the Civil War, with an emphasis on social, cultural, and intellectual history and on literature. The course will focus particularly on eastern Texas and on the Gulf South as a distinctive region of the South.
A study of the ways in which lawyers have been viewed in literature, cinema, and television.
This course provides an overview of the major myths, the archetypes based on those myths, and their use in literature and the arts. It emphasizes the Greco-Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths, but also covers other mythologies. Coverage will include major stories from the Old and New Testaments.
This course is a core component of the MLA program and offers a broad overview of history, politics, art, and philosophy. HUM 5390 will cover the years from the time of classical Greece through the medieval period; HUM 5391 will cover the Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern period; HUM 5392 will cover from the French revolution through Modern times.
Through a vigorous dialogue with the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and The Divine Comedy, supplemented by lectures on ancient Roman and medieval history, religion, philosophy, and culture, students will enter in to the Great Conversation of the key Roman poets. The class will center on the perennial questions of life and will seek to gain true wisdom and virtue from a direct wrestling with those questions. Although Virgil and Ovid’s epics will be assessed in terms of their own culture, they will also be studied as pre-Christian works that point ahead to the fuller revelation of Christ and the Bible and that find their culmination in Dante’s fusion of Athens and Jerusalem.
Through a vigorous dialogue with the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, supplemented by lectures on ancient Greek history, religion, philosophy, and culture, students will enter in to the Great Conversation that begins with the ancient Greeks. The class will center on the perennial questions of life and will seek to gain true wisdom and virtue from a direct wrestling with those questions. Although the works will be studied in terms of their own culture, they will also be studied as pre-Christian works that point ahead to the fuller revelation of Christ and the Bible.
A study of the development and impact of the mass media and society with an emphasis on the 20th century. Materials to be studied include dime novels, pulp magazines, comic books, and paperback books as well as their relationships to other mass media, particularly radio, television, and motion pictures. Other aspects include the production, marketing and distribution of popular culture as well as the sociological and psychological implications.
This course examines the major literary, musical, and artistic works inspired by the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The course will cover the historical roots of the legends, their use by major historians, and their influence on European and English literature.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to William Shakespeare’s plays about the Wars of the Roses, to examine those plays in the contexts of Shakespeare’s era and our own, to analyze his use and misuse of his sources for dramatic and political purposes, and to study the major modern cinematic and televised adaptations of the plays.
