Senior Auditors program canceled for spring semester
Campus leadership has made the difficult decision to cancel the Senior Auditors program for spring 2022, due to the semester beginning remotely. The Alumni Association believes this decision is in the best interest of tuition-paying students and the faculty that teach them. If you have questions about the Senior Auditors program, please contact seniorauditors@colorado.edu or the Alumni Association at 303-492-8484.
ENLP 2000 (001) Leadership, Fame and Failure
Instructor: Shilo Brooks
Benson Center Associate Faculty Director • Teaching Associate Professor • Faculty Director, Engineering Leadership Program
T/TH 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Examines the ambition, moral character, prudence and grit required for effective leadership. Common causes of leadership failure are also considered. A wide variety of ancient and modern leaders are studied in the disciplines of science and technology, politics, business and military affairs using primary source readings in history, philosophy and literature. Also explores whether leadership is a teachable art.
CWCV 2010 (001) Topics in Western Civilization: The Socio-Political World of Jesus
This course has been canceled for spring 2022. Please check back with us as it may be offered in academic year 2022-23
Instructor: Scott Powell
Benson Center Affiliate • Faculty, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver
T/Th 9:30am - 10:45 a.m.
Do the political categories of the first century Holy Land have resonance today? Around the turn of the first century, as the Roman Empire began its decent toward eventual decline, Judaism reached both a political tipping point, and a reckoning with national identity as the burgeoning Christ movement began to emerge as more than a mere Jewish sect. This course will examine the socio-political world of Jesus and the Gospels, starting with the period of the Maccabees and following the subsequent political and religious divisions which resulted in groups like the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots of Jesus’ own time. This class will also explore the factors that led to Christianity’s birth and look at the Christ story from the perspectives of different Synoptic Biblical Gospel writers, taking into account the worldview and background both of the authors and the particular communities to which they were writing. Finally, we will explore the more recent politicization of Jesus in contemporary U.S. culture and politics.
PHIL 3200 (001) Social and Political Philosophy
Instructor: Tristan Rogers
Benson Center Snider Scholar in Residence, Philosophy Department
M/W/F 2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Introduces students to an in-depth examination and analysis of central operational ideas in social and political philosophy, such as power, freedom, equality, democracy, justice, rights, community, individuality, civil disobedience, and law. A thorough treatment of any of these ideas may call for some cross-cultural and/or comparative political and social analysis.
ENLP 4000 (001) The Empire of Modern Science
Instructor: Shilo Brooks
T/Th 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Examines science and technology's rise to the status of political, cultural and economic leader of the modern world. Also considers the ambitions and limits of the modern scientific enterprise, and investigates whether scientists are adequately equipped to lead humanity's political, spiritual and evolutionary future. Readings are drawn from primary sources in history, economics, politics, philosophy and literature.
CWCV 4000 / FREN 4110 / PSCI 4028 Foundations of Western Civilization: Tocqueville
Instructor: Alan S. Kahan
Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy • Professor of British Civilization, Université de Paris-Saclay
T 3:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
This course will explore in depth the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution, arguably the best books ever written about democracy, the United States, and the French Revolution. We will explore Tocqueville’s thought based on these and other works and letters, trying to understand him both in the context of nineteenth-century French liberalism and in the wider context of his analysis of the modern democratic societies we live in today. No previous knowledge of Tocqueville is required.
CWCV 4000 (004) Foundations of Western Civilization: European Union: Past, Present, and Future
Instructor: Alan S. Kahan
T/Th 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
"The Idea of Europe: Past, Present, and Future" will examine the idea, the ideals, and the reality of a united Europe, from the nineteenth century to the present. Beginning with the 19th century and Victor Hugo's project of a United States of Europe, going through the formation of the EEC and then the EU, we will examine various ideas of what the future of Europe might be and how it might be conceptualized. Alongside the idea of Europe, the course will examine the institutions that have embodied the European idea, and the role that various political and economic perspectives have played in shaping this unique and evolving entity from WWII to the present.
CLAS 4169 / CLAS 5169 / ARTH 4169 / ARTH 5169 Topics in Ancient and Classical Art and Archaeology: The Greeks Overseas
Instructor: Catherine Steidl
Benson Center Scholar in Residence, Classics Department
T/Th 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
In-depth consideration of an aspect of ancient Mediterranean culture. Topics vary and may include ancient wall painting, Greek sculpture, artists and patrons, the ancient Near East, Egyptian art and archaeology, or Etruscan art and archaeology.