HN 390 - What is Patience?

(3.00 cr.)

Restricted to Honors students. This course doubts if patience is only waiting, watching, and worrying about time going by. Rather, as the Greeks proposed, patience has many connotations, uses, and requirements. Starting with the biblical books of Job and James, students consider why patience is fundamental to the Western tradition. Adding on Cyprian, Shakespeare, and Churchill, students progress through a series of readings about the conditions and causes that make our pursuit of patience a signpost of industry, a symbol of resistance, and a contract with ourselves and society. Counts as an Honors humanities seminar. Closed to students in the Class of 2018 and beyond. Same course as TH 390 .