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The Fourth Year Core Seminars

To complete the Core program, students take two senior seminars:
one seminar in English or History and one seminar in Philosophy or Religious Studies.

ENGLISH

Seminars in Literature, Media, and Rhetoric reach beyond the traditional limits of literary study and encourage participants to enhance critical speaking and writing skills. Literary Utopias and Dystopias (ENG 402), Writing and Speaking in the Professions (ENG 403), American Outlaws and Outcasts (ENG 412), American Film Noir and the Femme Fatale (ENG 414) are representative offerings. For more information, please consult the Le Moyne College Catalog.

HISTORY

Seminars in History enhance participants' understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity and improve research, writing, and speaking skills. Each seminar focuses on a non-Western civilization or on a submerged group within Western civilization. Women in America (HST 400), Women and Patriarchy in Western Civilization (HST 408), Comparative Genocide (HST 405), and History and Memory in the Palestinian Conflict (HST 409) are representative seminars. For more information, please consult the Le Moyne College catalog.

PHILOSOPHY

Seminars in Philosophy investigate the presuppositions, structures, and images behind our our attempts to understand and participate in the world. Organized around a significant theme, each seminar challenges participants to reflect on personal assumptions and values against the background of their previous years of study. Romance, Myth and Logos: The Structures of Meaning (PHL 402), Heroism and the Human Spirit (PHL 403), Ethics, Art and Literature (PHL 407), Philosophy and Revolution (PHL 408), and Health, Society and the Law (PHL 410) are representative offerings. For more information, please consult the Le Moyne College catalogue.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Seminars in Religious Studies investigate the presuppositions, structures and images behind attempts to understand central religious issues. Organized around a unifying theme, these seminars challenge participants to reflect upon personal religious assumptions and values against the background of their previous years of study. Corporate Responsibility (REL 401), Ethics from the Perspective of the Oppressed (REL 405), Public Religion and the Social Order: Christian Strategies (REL 411), Religion, Sex and Gender (REL 412), Religion and Imagination (REL 413), and Women and Religion in the Greco-Roman World (REL 417) are representative REL 400 seminars. For more information, please consult the Le Moyne College catalog.