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Congratulations to our December 2011 Graduates!
• Davida Ballard
• Julia Burns
• Stacey Dunn
• Jamie East
• Grady Gillenwater
• Ann Hodges
• Daniel Jackman
• Derrick Johnson
• Barbara Jones
• Catherine Kahn ***
• Natasha Lake
• Katherine Maki °
• Patricia Marcellino
• Abby Merchant
• Melanie Moore
• Brittney Shaw
• Lenora Speller †
• Krystal Wells
• Audrey Yates
Spring 2012 Class Dates
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• 09 Jan: Session Begins
• 11 Jan: Add/Drop Ends
• 01 Feb: W Deadline
• 27 Feb: Session Ends
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• 28 Feb: Session Begins
• 01 Mar: Add/Drop Ends
• 28 Mar: W Deadline
• 24 Apr: Session Ends
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• 09 Jan: Session Begins
• 13 Jan: Add/Drop Ends
• 02 Mar: W Deadline
• 24 Apr: Session Ends
• 02 May: Exams End
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BLS 300: Self, Society, and Salvation
This course serves as an introduction to an enormous variety of ideas regarding the self, society, the state, and the Sacred. In simple terms, it is a survey of some important questions and answers. It is based on the premise that the history of ideas is largely the history of prescriptions for "salvation," that is, to use the Webster’s definition, "preservation from destruction, disintegrating failure or other evil" or "final deliverance from dangers, difficulties, deficiencies or the like."
To put it another way: many important ideas originated as proposed solutions to perceived problems. These "problems" are the basic human concerns, shared by people everywhere, and may be grouped under four headings:
- How to achieve individual well-being
- How to organize a society
- How to exercise authority
- How to find and connect with transcendent reality
If these are different kinds of problems, then we may think of proposed solutions as different kinds of "salvation" — individual, social, political, and religious. The course is consequently divided into these four topic areas, each representing what might be called a different form of "salvation" or "fix":
- Fixing the Self
- Fixing Society
- Fixing the State
- Fixing the Cosmos.