The goal of this course is to prepare the first-year student for the rigors of academic writing in
the University. Students will gain the ability to write across disciplines, genres, and contexts,
gaining such fundamental tools as close, critical reading of both primary and scholarly sources,
summarizing, analyzing, critiquing, and presenting these sources in a cogent, succinct manner,
and utilizing sources to better develop one’s own scholarly arguments on a variety of issues.
We will accomplish these goals in part by exploring, in an historical manner, ancient Jewish,
Christian, gnostic, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman texts which portray, in various ways, the
female aspect of the divine, from the goddess Wisdom in the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
to the gnostic Sophia, responsible for the corrupt world in which we live. These texts will be
challenging but hopefully also enlightening, offering the student greater insight into both ancient
and modern religious and philosophical worldviews.
Course Requirements:
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Intended Audience:
first-year student
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