HONORS is a four-year humanities curriculum as "studia humanitatis" was originally understood in the Renaissance: a shared search for what is humane, first in our studies, and then in ourselves. While focusing closely on specialized subjects -- and while students also pursue the usual academic majors from across the arts and sciences -- we still follow an overarching logic. This is the necessary but often neglected task of integration at a time when increasing complexity of thought impels scholars to know more and more about less and less. Our seminar conversations respond to the challenge of this fragmentation by asking students the basic questions that put all specialization into a humane context: What is the good? What should we value? What is truth? Is there such a thing as truth at all?
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