Torrey Honors Institute
YMDT 110 - Greek Thought Introduces the student to works such as Iliad, Odyssey, Peloponnesian War, Plato’s Phaedo, Meno, Symposium, Timaeus, and Republic, along with works from Aeschylus and Sophocles. When Offered: Fall, freshman year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 111 - Old Testament Beginnings Introduces the student to Biblical literature and includes works such as Genesis through Joshua and Hebrews. When Offered: Fall, freshman year. Fee: $80. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 122 - Church Fathers and Life of Christ Explores works such as the Apostolic Fathers, Athanasius, Creeds of the Church, Augustine’s On Christian Teaching, Confessions and City of God. Delves into the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and the Acts of the Apostles. When Offered: Spring, freshman year. Note(s): Concurrent with 125. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 125 - Greco–Roman Thought Examines works such as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Euripides’ Bacchae, Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. When Offered: Spring, freshman year. Note(s): Concurrent with 122. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 201 - The City and Man Explores works dealing with human social order and political thought. Selections include readings such as Augustine’s City of God, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Lincoln, Nietzsche, the U.S. Constitution, the book of Luke and Acts. When Offered: Fall, sophomore year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 202 - On Knowing God Examines the development of classical Christian doctrine. Includes readings such as the letters of Paul, the gospel of John, works by Irenaeus, Athanasius, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin and John Bunyan. When Offered: Spring, sophomore year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 214 - Medieval and Reformation Thought Considers writings such as The Divine Comedy, Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Creeds of the Church. When Offered: Fall, sophomore year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 217 - Pauline Epistles Explores each of the Pauline Epistles. When Offered: Fall, sophomore year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 220 - Early Modern Thought Examines works such as selections from Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Pascal, Descartes, Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise on Government, Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. When Offered: Spring, sophomore year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 226 - Wisdom Literature Explores Job through Ecclesiastes. When Offered: Spring, sophomore year. Credit(s): 4.
YMDT 303 - On the Cosmos Selections for discussion include authors such as Aristotle, Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Wordsworth, Emerson and Ezekiel. Readings focus on the study of cosmology, the natural world and the human place in it. When Offered: Fall, junior year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 304 - On Learning and Knowledge Readings focus on epistemology, education and a survey of the biblical history of Israel. Explores works by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Kant, Hume, Newman, Dewey, C.S. Lewis and the books I and II Samuel, I and II Kings and Isaiah. When Offered: Spring, junior year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 310 - Revivalism and Romanticism Includes works such as I and II Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, selections from William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards and Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. When Offered: Fall, junior year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 325 - Nineteenth Century Thought Includes works such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. When Offered: Spring, junior year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 401 - On History and Rhetoric Selected readings on history, apologetics and rhetoric. Authors such as Eusebius, Hegel, Aristotle, Cicero, Justin Martyr, Augustine, R.A. Torrey and Wesley are included. When Offered: Fall, senior year. Credit(s): 8. YMDT 402 - The Future Examines works on eschatology and judgment such as Daniel, Revelation, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, and selections from Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if student’s major does not have integration requirement. When Offered: Spring, senior year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 410 - America Includes readings such as the Non-Pauline epistles, selections from Emerson, Melville, James, O’Connor, Douglass and Lincoln. When Offered: Fall, senior year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 465 - Twentieth Century Thought Examines works such as Daniel, Revelation, C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, Newman’s The Idea of a University, Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, and selections from T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if the student’s major does not have an Integration requirement. When Offered: Spring, senior year. Credit(s): 4. YMDT 480 - Torrey Honors Thesis The last term of the senior year will be devoted to writing a tutor-supervised thesis of not less than 12,000 words. These required four credits are counted toward the total number needed for graduation from Torrey and Biola University. The thesis may be waived for students who do senior theses, projects, recitals, etc., for their majors, with prior approval. Students may substitute an internship in their major field or a Torrey off-site program for the thesis with prior approval. The internship must be approved by the Torrey Thesis Director and
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