Crash Course – God and the Good Life

Crash Course is a one-hour College of Arts & Letters sample class presented on home football Fridays!

Each session features an A&L professor leading a class pulled directly from some of the most popular and riveting courses on campus. Alumni, friends, prospective students, parents, and anyone else on campus are welcome to participate in these explorations of fascinating topics.

Course topics this year will focus on generative artificial intelligence, living a good life, football in America, creating compelling characters through voiceover, sports economics, and more!

All lectures begin at 2:30 p.m. in 155 DeBartolo Hall. No ticket is required.

God and the Good Life
with Paul Blaschko (Philosophy)

In God and the Good Life, an incredibly popular introductory philosophy course, students explore the big questions about how to live a meaningful life — what justifies your beliefs, whether you should practice a religion, what sacrifices you should make for others, and more. They learn what the greats like Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes have to say on issues like these, and then develop their own vision for what a good life should be. In this session, attendees will learn why philosophers have long thought that achieving happiness is the ultimate goal of a well-lived life and will consider how our contemporary conception of happiness compares to that of the Ancient Greeks.

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