Monthly Archives: April 2012

PHRE graduate Reneé Gordon Holley wins prestigious German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders

April 18, 2012

Details here!

Department-sponsored lecture on bioethics

Schedule of final oral presentations for the Spring 2012 PHRE Senior Seminar

April 7, 2012

All presentations are scheduled for 30-minute time slots and will take place in Violette 1146.   Tuesday, April 10: 5:00:        Adam Keeton The superhero myth of American culture and its influence on the image of Jesus Dereck Daschke, faculty reader Jennifer Jesse, faculty respondent 5:30:        Elmer Stunkel: The role of reason / logic in Horkheimer […]

Fall 2012 Seminar: The Millennium and the Apocalypse

PHRE majors and minors, You may be interested in the seminar I will teach next fall, a historical and cultural approach to the end of the world called “The Millennium and the Apocalypse,” PHRE 476, TR 10:30-11:50 am.  It will cover the roots of apocalyptic thinking in Judaism and Christainity, its develoment in the middle […]

Two Fall 2012 courses from chemist Peter Ramberg of possible interest to PHRE majors

Contact Peter Ramberg for more details. NASC 400 TTh 1:30-2:50 Introduction to basic topics in the history of science from ancient Greece to Isaac Newton. Students will read a variety of primary and secondary sources covering three time periods: the origins of western science in Greece and the Middle East, the nature of science in […]