Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/20/2018 - 08/24/2018
All Day
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The Humanities Center will once again offer a variety of classes during BYU’s Education Week. Classes will be held throughout the week and taught by faculty from the College of Humanities.
Humanities in the Digital Age
9:50 AM — 10:45 AM (222 MARB)
Monday: Video Games and the LDS Family – Dr. Michael Call
Finding Christ in the Humanities
9:50 AM — 10:45 AM (1102 JKB)
Tuesday: “Humbug and Humanity: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and ‘Fellow-Feeling’ our Way to Christ” – Dr. Jamie Horrocks
Wednesday: “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart”: Artistic Witnesses of Christ Through the Eyes of His Mother – Dr. Elliott Wise
Thursday: Finding Christ in Narnia: Experiencing Gospel Truths in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction – Dr. Bruce Young
Friday: Silent Night: An Austrian Testament of the Savior’s Birth – Dr. Teresa Bell
Lifelong Reading: 5 Best…
11:10 AM — 12:05 PM (B092 JFSB)
Wednesday: Five Great English Poets in the LDS Hymnal – Dr. Paul Westover
Thursday: Depicting Joan of Arc: Her Five Best Portrayals in Literature, Film and Art – Dr. Robert Hudson
Friday: Literature for Young People: Not Just Kid Stuff – Dr. Dawan Coombs
Philosophy and Faith
1:50 PM – 2:45 PM (B092 JFSB)
Tuesday: Dealing with Doubts – Dr. Ryan Christensen
Wednesday: The Spirit, the Taste of Salt, and the Irreducibility of Qualitative Experience – Dr. David Jensen