Courses
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KHC ST 111: Studio I
In Studio I, Kilachand students hone their writing, critical reading and thinking, and analytical skills. Students explore fundamental ethical, aesthetic, and social concerns posed by challenging texts and events. They compose their own writing, with attention to the modes and genres of expression, media, and evidence appropriate to the goals of the piece and its designated audience. Students revise their writing with significant individual attention in conferences with their instructors. Students register for one section of Studio I in fall semester of their first year. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar. -
KHC ST 112: Studio II
In Studio 2, Kilachand students hone their writing, critical reading and thinking, and research skills. Students learn the fundamental techniques of academic research, develop their own research projects, and write and revise a research paper. This project is developed in stages throughout the semester with significant individual attention in conferences with Studio instructors. Students register for one section of Studio II in spring semester of their first year. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing: Research & Inquiry. -
KHC UC 104: The Ethics of Food
Choices about what food to eat pervade our everyday lives. This course explores the ethics of such choices. We'll examine arguments for vegetarian and vegan diets, for eating organic, for eating local, and for restricting oneself to only humanely raised and slaughtered meat. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking. -
KHC UC 105: Liberty, Fanaticism (Religious and Secular), and Civic Unity
Does a free community require shared values? Must those values be sustained by a communal religious outlook--and if so, which one? How can rival religious and secular claims about the foundations of political authority be reconciled in a free community? If diverse religious views are permitted in a free society, how is a regime of mutual toleration to be established and how is religious liberty to be defined? What are some of the arguments for and against freedom of speech and inquiry? Is the cause of civic virtue, unity, peace, and liberty better served by a sort of free market of religious and moral views than by state-enforced doctrine? In effect, we will reflect on the meaning of "E pluribus unum" in the context of a free and cohesive society. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
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