Baylor GTX: Great Texts
GTX 1301: Research Writing
3 credit hours · 1 section · 18 open seats
Introduction to academic writing and scholarship in Great Texts of the Western Tradition. Teaches and exercises inquiry-based research writing activities as vital to exploring connections among knowledge, ethics, and enjoyment.
GTX 1302: Critical Reasoning
3 credit hours · 1 section · 18 open seats · Kirsten Welch
Instruction in the key elements of logic and its application in the pursuit of truth. Teaches skills of critical thinking necessary for seeking wisdom in conversation with Great Texts and throughout life.
GTX 2301: Intellectual Trad Ancient Wrld
3 credit hours · 14 sections · 224 open seats · Stacey Hibbs, Eric Brewer, Merritt Popp, Lynne Hinojosa and 5 more
Interdisciplinary close reading and discussion of ancient literary texts that establish historic contexts for deliberation regarding society, ethics, knowledge, and imaginative enjoyment.
GTX 2302: Medieval Intellectual Traditio
3 credit hours · 7 sections · 118 open seats · Merritt Popp, Michael Foley, Kristen Drahos, Barry Harvey and 1 more
Interdisciplinary close reading and discussion of major literary texts in relation to social, philosophical, and theological contexts of historic development in Western cultures from the medieval to the early modern period.
GTX 3322: 18th & 19th Centuries
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · Kristen Drahos
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing. An undergraduate seminar in the Great Texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students will read selections from Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, de Tocqueville, Goethe, A…
GTX 3330: Great Texts by Women
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · Lynne Hinojosa
An undergraduate course in seminal texts written or narrated by women of various epochs. Readings may include Sappho, Ban Zhao, Scheherezade, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barret…
GTX 3370: Great Texts in Medicine
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · Eric Martin
Examines classic works in the history of medicine (Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Hildegard von Bingen, and others) as well as important philosophical and literary investigations into the nature of illness and the work of the healing arts (Camus, Woolf, Tolstoy…
GTX 4321: Twentieth Century
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · Eric Martin
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing. An undergraduate seminar in the Great Texts of the twentieth century. Students will read selections from Yeats, William James, Weber, Freud, Barth, Woolf, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, Lewis, Eliot, Wiesel, Frost, Camus, …
GTX 4332: Master Works in Theology
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · William Weaver
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing. An undergraduate seminar devoted to the study of seminal works in theology, in connection with one or more historical periods, ranging from antiquity to the present. Emphasis will be placed on theological interactions wit…
GTX 4340: Master Works in Music
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 12 open seats · David Corey
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing. Survey and analysis of seminal landmarks of music in their relationship to the six eras of the Great Texts Seminar Sequence.
GTX 4V99: Great Texts in Film
3 credit hours · 1 section · 10 open seats · Sarah Jane Murray
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor. Research projects to be undertaken by students or by classes under the direct supervision of the professor. Course may be repeated twice with a different topic of study.