ARTS 122GQuest for Meaning in the 20th Century 1 and 2
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1981–82
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1981–82; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Against the background of rapidly shifting values In western culture, this course asks the student to examine his or her perspective and then face the resources of others in answering the question of Who am I? What is my obligation to society? What is my relationship to the natural world? Is there an ultimate meaning to life? Teaching methods include personal statements, thematic and biographical books and films.
As printed in the 1975–76 to 1981–82 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 to 1981–82, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1975–76 to 1981–82 7 calendars
Against the background of rapidly shifting values In western culture, this course asks the student to examine his or her perspective and then face the resources of others in answering the question of Who am I? What is my obligation to society? What is my relationship to the natural world? Is there an ultimate meaning to life? Teaching methods include personal statements, thematic and biographical books and films.
Not in the 1974–75 calendar.
1973–74 1 calendar
Titled Quest for Meaning in the Twentieth Century.
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