How is CWC different from Western Humanities?
• They provide 1st-year students with a roughly chronological survey of Western life and thought • They are team-taught by professors from several academic disciplines, assisted by student “teaching assistants” (or “TAs”) • They feature both large group presentations and small group discussions There are substantial differences, however: • CWC is a one-semester course; Western Humanities is designed to be taken over four consecutive semesters. (Note: you need not continue the sequence into your sophomore year.) • In Western Humanities students spend about two-thirds of their class time in small discussion groups; in CWC about two-thirds of class time is spent in a large group, supplemented by a weekly meeting of a small discussion group. • While both courses require substantial reading, Western Humanities students read several key works of literature, philosophy, drama, and theology in their entirety. In CWC students typically read three relatively short books (in 2006-07: Sophocles’ p
