Constructions of Knowledge
A course for incoming first-year students, Constructions of Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in the Academy and Beyond asks students to interrogate what their natural learning tendencies are, how they know what they know, and how to cultivate other ways of knowing beyond the intellectual. Students work individually and collaboratively analyzing how knowledge is created, discovered, and interpreted. They’ll explore such questions as: What human faculties are involved in learning, seeing, understanding and knowing? What conditions are present when revolutions in human knowledge arise? What is the relationship between knowledge and power? What is wisdom? Discussion and assignments encourage students to draw on many different ways of expressing knowledge, including the intellect, spirituality, intuition, and others. The class fulfills an Ideals and Values core requirement.