If you want to really learn, expand your mind, and try on a few new ideas for size – there is no better place than college. But if you’ve been reading My College Guide for the last few months, you’ve probably already figured that out! You’ll have the chance to sample a wide variety of courses, from the downright unusual college classes (even Twilight or Harry Potter classes) to the kind that cover a lot of ground with a little fun thrown in, too – like the inter-disciplinary Common Foundations course at Union University!
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We got in touch with Common Foundations’ creator (and one of the instructors): Dr. Taylor Worley. It’s not every day that we stumble across a class that includes a weekend sight-seeing trip to New York City!
Students in Common Foundations wrap their heads around seminar topics that range from “Icons and Medieval Imagination” to “Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground” the Spirituality of Blues. Successful completion of this college class yields the credit equivalent of two college classes!
What does the Common Foundations program offer that a student just can’t find anywhere else?
Common Foundations is a unique platform to explore traditional subjects in a new way. We teach both the New Testament Survey course and the Arts in the Western Civilization course alongside each other and provide a seminar for their integration. In addition to the integrative seminar, the class will receive hands on experience engaging the arts through a class trip to New York City and the representative cultural landmarks of that city. In addition to the course trip, students actually receive 6 hours of course credit, which is the equivalent of two classes.
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Can a student who is less than artsy benefit from this course?
Most definitely: this program is designed to engage a host of intellectual curiosities that are not limited to an interest in the traditional forms of high art. These include topics as diverse as worship places and spaces, popular music, and cross-cultural expressions of…art.
Besides all the studying, students hang out in New York City exploring places like The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Chelsea Art District, Socrates in the City, Central Park, Time Square – and taking in a Broadway musical (just to name a few)! Common Foundations sounds like a unique way to put into practice the things you have learned and, really, who can say “no” to New York?
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