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Intellectual Heritage
Prerequisite: College Composition (English C050, C051, R050, or
H090) or its equivalent.
Requirement: Intellectual Heritage X051 or X091 (3 credits) and
Intellectual Heritage X052 or X092 (3 credits). Students normally
should take Intellectual Heritage X051 or X091 in the semester immediately
following the completion of College Composition, and Intellectual Heritage
X052 or X092 immediately after completing X051 or X092.
Intellectual Heritage, the most distinctive feature of Temple's
Core Curriculum, is a required writing-intensive, two-semester course sequence
introducing students to "seedbed texts" in the western intellectual tradition,
from ancient Greece to the Bible through the twentieth century.
These are case study courses, not surveys. Students read primary
texts in depth, building reading and interpretative skills. Lectures
and class discussions provide historical and cultural background, but the
emphasis is on analysis. The interdisciplinary structure of the courses,
with readings drawn from diverse cultures and time periods and reflecting
different methodologies, encourages students both to seek out common elements
and to discern the ways in which cultures and texts remain unique and irreconcilable.
Intellectual Heritage constitutes two of the five Writing-Intensive
courses required in the Core Curriculum. In addition to essay examinations,
students complete several papers or other written assignments.
X051 Intellectual Heritage I (3 credits)
X052 Intellectual Heritage II (3 credits)
X091 Honors Intellectual Heritage I (3 credits)
X092 Honors Intellectual Heritage II (3 credits)
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