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 X091.
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 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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