This course serves as an introduction to thenature, scope, and significance of a liberal artseducation. Students will be asked to thinkcarefully about enduring questions related to thehuman experience: What does it mean for anindividual, an action, or a community to be just?What does it mean to be free? What economic andsocial inequalities have helped shape humanhistory and continue to exist today? Students willencounter enduring, transformative texts that havedemonstrated a capacity to speak on these issuesto many different kinds of people in manydifferent historical and cultural circumstances.In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature ofthe liberal arts, students will read enduringtexts from a number of different academic areas ofstudy (e.g., history, philosophy, literature,politics, anthropology, psychology, sociology,languages). Students will be asked to makeconnections between issues and themes covered inthe texts and their own experiences. As anintroductory course in the liberal arts, studentswill be introduced to the resources available atthe college that will allow them to consider thesetexts and questions in a way that clarifies forthem their educational and career goals.