Syllabus & Course Schedule
To navigate the course, follow along with our schedule day-by-day below. We’ll post everything you need to know about the course here, including your readings, so no need to go anywhere else!
The objective of these courses is to give you a firm understanding of the relevant areas of intersection between biological sciences, ethics, and religious faiths. We are asking big questions about what it means to be human now and what humanity will look like in the future.
Because our approach this semester will be thoroughly interdisciplinary, the two courses in which you are enrolled, PHIL288E and BIOL395E, are completely linked. All points count towards both classes, so your final grades for both courses will be identical. Grades will be reported in Sakai.
Fiction texts for the semester
Our fiction books will provide a framework for all that we discuss this semester. Follow along with our reading guide. Also, some of the books we are reading have some potentially triggering content. We’ve put together a list of content warnings to give you a heads up of what to expect.
*any unabridged version of the texts below should be suitable for the course (paperback, eBook, audiobook, etc.) and are available from a wide variety of vendors, used and new, local and otherwise
General Weekly Overview
Tuesdays
9:45 to 11:00
Crown Center Room 105
In-person classroom discussion
30-minute break
11:30 to 12:45
Mundelein Room 308
In-person classroom discussion
Thursdays
9:45 to 11:00
Crown Center Room 105
In-person classroom discussion
30-minute break
11:30 to 12:15
Peer-led dialogue meetings with Sydney and Tenzing. Location TBA.
