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Worldview Class

$750.00/year
Worldview Class
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09/06/2021 - 05/14/2022
Full Year
1.0 credits in
Grades 11-12

Taught by:

Edward Straka

About the course

Telos would be to discuss the major worldviews of the modern world (Christianity; Islam; Marxism; Humanism; Postmodernism). Each worldview will be examined within the context of 10 academic/philosophical disciplines (theology; philosophy; history; economics; law; politics; biology; psychology; ethics; sociology; psychology) in order to perceive the wide ranging difference in the various meta-narratives extant in the world today.

Course Objectives:

Telos of this course is to assist students in understanding that ideas have consequences. What a person believes about God, man, law, time, and hope really does have consequences in time, history and on earth in their daily ideas. Good intentions and rhetoric are one thing - reality is another. Equally, students will be encouraged to become proficient in the conversational approach to learning: close readings, interpretive questions, and Socratic discussions of the texts. Students will develop lateral thinking skills by way of analyzing and synthesizing themes and motifs from various readings and strive to write persuasively about the perennial human questions of human life in all directions.

Texts:

  • Understanding the Times
  • Other readings TBA

About the teacher

Edward Straka Edward Straka has spent most of his adult life in education having taught on both sides of the Pacific (Japan) and at both the collegiate and high school levels. He earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN.
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