Academics
Course Descriptions
Seminars in the Humanities
- BLS 300: Self, Society, and Salvation
- BLS 300: Visions of the Creation
- BLS 301: Pathways: Reading and Writing in the Humanities
Seminars in the Social Sciences
- SSC 300: Doing Social Science
- SSC 301: Contemporary Issues in the Social Sciences
- SSC 350: Inequality in a Changing World
Selected Topics in Literature
- BLS 222: Notes from Underground: Resistance and Everyday Culture
- BLS 221: Know Slow: Countering the Culture of Speed
- BLS 320: Russian Literature from Stalin to Putin
- BLS 321: Reading the Human Experience
- BLS 322: Revolutionary Lives: Radical Reflections in Russian Literature
- BLS 323: Short Reads
- BLS 324: Banned Books
- BLS 325: Mystery, Mayhem, & Murder
- BLS 326: Telling Stories: The Art & Craft of the Memoir
- BLS 327: Contemporary Asian Literature
Selected Topics in the Fine Arts
- BLS 241: Visualizing Disability
- BLS 340: Singing the American Dream
- BLS 340 Discourse, Drama, Documentary
- BLS 341: Eye Appeal: Spectacle on Stage and in Life
- BLS 342: Painting on the Page
- BLS 343: Big Plays, Big Ideas
- BLS 345: Photography: Contexts and Illusions
- BLS 346: The Art of Life & Vice Versa
- BLS 347: Shakespeare Off the Page
- BLS 348: Representing Women
Selected Topics in Philosophy, Religion, & Ethics
- BLS 360: The Greening of God
- BLS 360: The Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- BLS 360: Culture, Philosophy, and Religion in India
- BLS 360: ‘Picked’ Over: The plight of migrant workers in the U.S.
- BLS 360: Race, Ethnicity, & Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
- BLS 360: The Life After Death
- BLS 361: American Dreams
- BLS 362: Vice, Crime, & American Law
- BLS 363: Ethics & Technology
- BLS 364: Mystics in America
- BLS 365: Divided We Stand
- BLS 366: Life, Death, & Meaning
Selected Topics in Historical Perspectives
- BLS 380: The New South
- BLS 380: Ancient Cities
- BLS 380 Great Gun Debate
- BLS 380 Redefining the Southern Belle
- BLS 380: Risk & Reward: Entrepreneurship in American History
- BLS 380 Women’s Voices: The Personal is Political
- BLS 381: Old Europe / New Europe
- BLS 382: The Sixties
- BLS 383: Religious Resistance to Political Power
- BLS 384: Great Trials in American History
- BLS 385: American Motherhood
- BLS 386: Women, War, & Terror
