YMDT 220 - Early Modern Thought Examines works such as selections from Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Pascal, Descartes, Locke ʼ s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise on Government, Hume ʼ s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hobbes ʼ Leviathan, Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. When Offered: Spring, sophomore year. Unit(s): 8. YMDT 226 - Wisdom Literature Explores Job through Ecclesiastes. When Offered: Spring, Selections for discussion include authors such as Aristotle, Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Wordsworth, Emerson and Ezekeil. Readings focus on the study of cosmology, the natural world and the human place in it. When Offered: Fall, junior year. Unit(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, Rousseau, Hume, Newman, Dewey, C.S. Lewis and the books I and II Samuel, I and II Kings and Isaiah. When Offered: Spring, junior year. Unit(s): 8. YMDT 310 - Revivalism & Romanticism sophomore year. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 303 - On the Cosmos Includes works such as I and II Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, selections from William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards and Kant ʼ s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. When Offered: Fall, junior year. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 325 - Nineteenth Century Thought Includes works such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, Austen ʼ s Pride and Prejudice, Bronte ʼ s Jane Eyre, Dicken ʼ s Tale of Two Cities, Dostoyevsky ʼ s Brothers Karamazov, and Tolstoy ʼ s Anna Karenina. When Offered: Spring, junior year. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 401 - On History & 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. Unit(s): 8. YMDT 402 - The Future Examines works on eschatology and judgment such as Daniel, Revelation, Boethius ʼ Consolation of Philosophy, and selections from Flannery O ʼ Connor, T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if student ʼ s major does not have integration requirement. When Offered: Spring, senior year. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 410 - America Includes readings such as the Non-Pauline epistles, selections from Emerson, Melville, Burke, James, O ʼ Connor, Douglass and Lincoln. Examines works such as Daniel, Revelation, C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man, Newman ʼ s The Idea of a University, Nietzsche ʼ s On the Genealogy of Morals, Freud ʼ s Civilization and Its Discontents, and selections from T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if the student ʼ s major does not have an Integration requirement. When Offered: Spring, senior year. Unit(s): 4. When Offered: Fall, senior year. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 465 - Twentieth Century Thought
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 units 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 student ʼ s major advisor. All theses and internships should make a significant contribution to the student ʼ s major field of study. When Offered: Fall and spring. Unit(s): 4. YMDT 490 - Selected Readings & Topics Designed primarily for upper-division students in Torrey who want to study specialized topics not covered in catalog course offerings. May be taken up to three times with different readings. Admission is by approval of the Director. Unit(s): 1 - 4. YMDT 491 - Independent Study Independent readings on a topic chosen by the student. Admission is by approval of the Director. When Offered: Offered both semesters. Unit(s): 1 - 4. YMDT 492 - Torrey Off-campus Independent readings on a topic chosen by the professor. Offered usually in the summer. May be taken up to three times with different readings. May substitute for the Torrey Honors Thesis with approval. Admission is by approval of the Director. Unit(s): 1 - 4.
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