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Liberal Studies 111: Ways of Knowing I: February 10, 2025 - 12:18pm

Love and Friendship

Course Outline, Fall 2012

 

Senior Project in Liberal Studies January 31, 2022 - 2:23pm

Course Outline: Fall and Spring Semester 2012-13

LBST 400 Y12N01 (Nanaimo) & Y12X01 (Courtenay)

A. Introduction

LBST 203/303: The Highest Things August 3, 2016 - 4:54pm

LBST 421 Special Topics in Western Culture: The Twentieth Century October 1, 2019 - 12:49pm

Course Outline, Courtenay, Spring 2013

Jim Anderson

A. Introduction

The following pages provide details about the curriculum of LBST 421. This Course Outline consists of two parts: the first describes the various aspects of the course (the assignments, seminars, and so on), and the second part, two appendixes, outlines the specific policies we will use for different aspects of the course.

LBST 311Ancient Times, Ancient Ways August 3, 2016 - 4:54pm

Fall 2013: "The Highest Things"
Section F13X01: Jim Anderson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30, Room TBA

Course Overview:

Senior Project in Liberal Studies January 31, 2022 - 2:23pm

Course Outline: Fall and Spring Semester 2011-12

LBST 400 Y11N01 (Nanaimo) & Y11X01 (Courtenay)

A. Introduction

LBST 420 The Modern Experience and Beyond Course Outline - Spring 2014 January 31, 2022 - 1:37pm

  "The noble and the necessary"

Synopsis

Introduction January 28, 2022 - 9:50am

Liberal Studies Abroad

England - 2001

 

Course Outline

Schedule of Events

 

 

 

LBST 411: Special Topics in Western Culture: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries January 28, 2022 - 9:50am

Course Outline: 2012 Autumn Session

Jim Anderson


A. Introduction

The following pages provide details about the curriculum of LBST 411. This Course Outline consists of two parts: the first describes the various aspects of the program (the assignments, seminars, and so on), and the second part, two appendixes, outlines the specific policies we will use for different aspects of the course.

Liberal Studies 321 February 10, 2025 - 12:18pm

The Emergence of European Culture:

Humanity's Place in the Cosmos

Spring 2014 M. Okun

 

Course Description

Liberal Studies 321 takes a multi-disciplinary look at topics of interest concerning the European middle ages and renaissance. This particular section of LBST 321 will focus on a prevalent concern of the period: determining humanity's place in the cosmos.

Turkey 2010: Course Outline February 10, 2025 - 12:27pm

Liberal Studies Abroad

LBST 290/390; LBST 291/391; LBST 292/392

Liberal Studies 112: Ways of Knowing II: Knowledge, Good, and Evil February 10, 2025 - 12:18pm

Course Outline, Spring 2013

 

Introductory Comments

LBST 112 is a team-taught course, in which students and instructors together read and discuss a series of texts and work to improve written and oral communication skills. The emphasis throughout is on developing general skills essential for later college work and on introducing students to some important texts and ways of thinking that they will encounter in their university careers.

LBST 410: Course Outline - Fall 2013 January 31, 2022 - 1:37pm

  Looking, Thinking, Feeling:

Reason and Imagination in the Enlightenment

Senior Project in Liberal Studies January 31, 2022 - 2:23pm

Course Outline: Fall and Spring Semester 2013-14

LBST 400 Y13N01 (Nanaimo) & Y13X01 (Courtenay)

A. Introduction

LBST 320: Medieval and Renaissance Thought:  Imagination, Reason, Faith January 31, 2022 - 2:23pm

Course Outline (Spring 2014)

LBST 220/320 (6): Passion, Faith, Reason: The Middle Ages and Renaissance January 28, 2022 - 9:41am

Course Outline (Spring 2015)

 

Liberal Studies 111 (6 Credits): February 10, 2025 - 12:18pm

Love and Friendship

Course Outline, Fall 2014

 

 

LBST 111, along with LBST 112 (offered in the Spring of 2015), counts for the Degree English Requirement at VIU. 

 

August 3, 2016 - 4:55pm

The Origin of Species
[Review Article]

[A review by Fleeming Jenkin, published in The North British Review, June 1867, 46: 277-318]

Liberal Studies 311: Ancient Times, Ancient Ways F13N01 Course Outline February 10, 2025 - 12:18pm

Gods and Nature

Course Description

  Liberal Studies 214/314 (Fall 2014): Wonder and the Order of Nature February 10, 2025 - 12:31pm

Prof. Janice Porteous Tues 10-12:20 355 Rm 108
Philosophy Dept/Liberal Studies Dept Vancouver Island University
Bldg 355 Rm 338 tel (office) 250.753.3245 ext 2172
Office hours: Tues 12:30-1:30 email: janice.porteous@viu.ca