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Core and Honors Courses Taught by Nick Hayes
Honors 250 Humanities/Ethical Thinking in Global Context
This class engages students in in serious conversations centered around a series of pivotal authors in our time. The students explore the recent writings of Tim O'Brien, Andrei Maxine, J.M. Coetzee's, Philip Gourevitch, Abraham Verghese, and Arundhati Roy and, in the process find their own voices in writing and discussion articulating the ethical issues and choices of today's global times.
Teaching in the CORE Curriculum,
Nick Hayes offers a First Year Symposium and a Senior Seminar
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His First Year Symposium -- The Fourth Seal: Epidemics and Society From the Black Death to AIDS takes an inter-disciplinary look of how society has responded to epidemics from medieval times to the present. |
The Senior Seminar -- War and the Memory of War in the Last Century -- examines how the First World War, Second World War, Vietnam War, and the wars of the ex-Yugoslavia shaped the memory and culture of European and American civilization. |
Nick Hayes
University Chair in Critical Thinking
Quad 451B, SJU
(320) 363-2623
Patrick T. Brennan
Research Assistant
ptbrennan@csbsju.edu
Norma Koetter
Administrative Assistant, University Chair in Critical Thinking
(320) 363-2770
nkoetter@csbsju.edu