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CS92PROD
Virtue and Vice in History, Literature, and Philosophy

COL 228
Fall 2022
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: CHUM 228, PHIL 112, HIST 140
Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate

Examines the long, complex and sometimes contradictory associations of virtue with piety, salvation, righteousness, intensity, strength, and, more recently with vulnerability and suffering. Beginning with Confucius and Aristotle, and winding our way through Christianity, humanism, postmodernism until the present, we will explore the ethics, power, and politics of the ideas of virtue and vice.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL
Course Format: LectureGrading Mode: Student Option
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (COL)(CSCT)(EDST)
Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89%

Last Updated on MAR-29-2024
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