Thursdays, 2-3:30pm, GIRV 1108
Enrollment Code: 50377
This freshman seminar is intended to introduce students to the ways in which different disciplines have addressed the concept of origins. In particular, this seminar is organized as a dialogue between science, religion, and history or more broadly construed, between science and humanities. The dialogue in the seminar will be focused around how religion and science raise and answer fundamental questions about the origins of the cosmos. Is the earth a special or unique place? How do science and religion understand time, its beginnings and its ends? What is the place of the human in the universe? Discussion of these questions will not only provide the students with an understanding of some of the main theories, but also with questions of methodology and the epistermological foundation of different disciplines.
Professor Tommaso Treu, Physics, research includes: astrophysics, galaxy formation, cosmology. Courses include: Astronomy-2, History of the Universe, Physics-133, Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology.
Stefania Tutino. Research: early modern European history; history of Christianity; history of ideas; politics and religion in early modern Europe. Courses: HS197, Theology and political theory: themes and problems in early modern Europe; HS114C, history of Christianity: 1300 to 1648; RS80B, Religion and Western Civilization II: Medieval.
Richard Hecht. Research: General History of Religions; Judaism; Religion and Culture. Courses: RS 131D, Judaism in Modern Times; GLOBL 102, Global Religion; RS 113, Religion and Film; RS 134, Religion and Violence; RS130, Judaism.
