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This course exposes students to a broad range of cultural and intellectual experiences in order to enrich their liberal arts foundation and to help develop as Christian agents of discernment in our society and culture. The Honors College will assemble a diverse schedule of events each semester in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and religion. Students will be challenged to reflect critically on the meaning and significance of such events within our contemporary social and cultural contexts and in the light of the Christian faith. This course is limited to Honors College students and may be repeated up to 8 hours. Graded on a CR/NC basis.

"Practices of the Faithful - Called to Love" explores many of the Christian practices - such as Sabbath-keeping, prayer, service, and study of Scripture - through which God has sustained faithful Christians across the centuries. Students engage in each practice that is discussed and reflect on the role of Christian practices in their own life calling as participants in God's Love. HNR 130 also assists incoming freshmen with the college transition. Reserved for freshmen in the John Wesley Honors College.

"Practices of the Faithful - Called to Create" continues to explore Christian practices through which God has sustained faithful Christians across the centuries, paying particular attention to those that redeem the imagination and cultivate students' creativity as image bearers of God and as part of their life calling.

Liberal Learning and Life Calling Seminars are interdisciplinary studies of the foundational questions intrinsic to human existence. Each seminar explores the nature and significance of one of these questions: most fundamentally, within the framework of historic Christian theology and practice, but also in the light of various relevant academic disciplines and contemporary ideologies. The ultimate goal of the seminars is to equip students to better understand the meaning and purpose of life by cultivating an historic Christian vision of human flourishing and the capacity to discern how this vision relates to competing conceptions of human existence. HNR170 focuses on the most central of these foundational questions: 'what is truth?' As the gateway course for the LLLC Seminars, HNR170 introduces students to the nature and purpose of a Christianity, and helps them to understand their lives within the context of a kingdom-of-God calling that thoroughly integrates intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation. Reserved for students in the John Wesley Honors College.

Liberal Learning and Life Calling Seminars are interdisciplinary studies of the foundational questions intrinsic to human existence. Each seminar explores the nature and significance of one of these questions most fundamentally, within the framework of historic Christian theology and practice, but also in the light of various relevant academic disciplines and contemporary ideologies. The ultimate goal of the seminars is to equip students to better understand the meaning and purpose of life by cultivating an historic Christian vision of human flourishing and the capacity to discern how this vision relates to competing conceptions of human existence. HNR-175 explores the nature of beauty in light of God's character, His created order, and humanity's participation in divine creativity. Prerequisite: HNR-170.

Liberal Learning and Life Calling Seminars are interdisciplinary studies of the foundational questions intrinsic to human existence. Each seminar explores the nature and significance of one of these questions: most fundamentally, within the framework of historic Christian theology and practice, but also in the light of various relevant academic disciplines and contemporary ideologies. The ultimate goal of the seminars is to equip students to better understand the meaning and purpose of life by cultivating an historic Christian vision of human flourishing and the capacity to discern how this vision relates to competing conceptions of human existence. HNR 275 explores how the Church understands God's invitation to all of humanity to embrace "the good life." This theological vision of the good life will also engage insights offered by disciplines such as literature, political science, sociology, and economics. In the end, students will develop understandings of how God's call to faithfulness, hope, and love should orient their pursuits of lives well-lived in the face of competing cultural notions of goodness. Prerequisite: HNR170

This course is an introduction to the meaning and significance of the Christian canon of Scripture. Students will learn how to read and interpret Scripture as the heart of the historic Christian tradition, attentive to the interpretive wisdom that the Body of Christ has cultivated over the centuries. After an historical study of the formation of the Christian canon, an overview of various unifying theological themes in the Old and New Testaments, and an introduction to the history of Scriptural exegesis from the early Church to modern biblical criticism, students will be instructed in the exegetical process and will be required to demonstrate their learning in the production of an exegetical work. Reserved for students in the John Wesley Honors College.

HNR-185 develops a student's written literacy through practiced writing, dialogue, and critical thought. Using some of the best Christian fiction and nonfiction prose as a gateway for all writing assignments, this course explores how one's imaginative and rational thought intersect to shape one's vision of beauty, goodness, and truth. The classroom activities and writing assignments will develop a student's skills in expressive, expository, and research writing through an understanding and implementation of various writing patterns and strategies. The course's texts, classroom discussions, research, and written essays will highlight how the world and all that is in it are in constant interaction with the divine.