<p>Dear kimisizer : Read through the curriculum link at : </p>
<p>[A&S</a> Honors Program! - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram/curriculum.html]A&S”>http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram/curriculum.html)</p>
<p>Below, we have reproduced the overview of the freshman and sophomore curriculum. Reading through this material, do you conclude that these are specially designed history classes?</p>
<p>Freshman and Sophomore Year
In your first two years you will take a course called The Western Cultural Tradition. This is a four-semester, six-credit course, equal to two of the five courses BC students take each semester. It is taught in seminar fashion. The course content reflects the fact that the course fulfills the BC core requirements in literature and writing, philosophy, theology, and social science. Though individual instructors vary their reading lists, there is broad agreement about the central texts. The first year deals with the classical tradition. It begins with Greek literature and philosophy, Latin literature, the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and continues through representative texts of the late Roman Empire and early Christianity, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and medieval epic and romantic poetry and drama. The second year begins with Renaissance authors, continues with the religious and political theorists of the 17th century, the principal Enlightenment figures, the English and continental Romantics, major 19th-century writers such as Hegel and Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, and ends with the seminal cultural theories of Darwin and Marx and Freud.</p>
<p>This course is not a survey of the history of ideas taught out of anthologies. It is rigorously text-centered, and the function of class discussion and the frequent writing assignments is to teach you to understand and dissect arguments and presuppositions and to relate disparate evidence into coherent hypotheses about the works that have been central in the development of our contemporary intellectual tradition.</p>