Enduring Questions
Would you like to act in a Festival of Dionysus?
Argue about Plato’s ideas? Discuss what the Bible meant to its first readers? Go on a journey to hell and heaven with Dante, beyond good and evil with Nietzsche, or to the lighthouse with Virginia Woolf, in the company of classmates who have become friends? In Enduring Questions all this is possible.
years
lively discussion courses
Ole Core requirements fulfilled
One course per term
Students in the program take one Enduring Questions course and three other courses during each semester of the first two years of college. These four courses comprise a normal course load. First-year students also take an Enduring Questions course (QUEST 115) in Interim of the first year.
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An intensive residential experience
All “Questers” live in the same residence hall in order to foster bonds outside of the classroom during the first year. Each Quester has a non-Quester roommate, though, so there are lots of opportunities to expand social networks beyond the program.
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All majors represented
“Questers” work on their majors alongside their Enduring Questions courses. Common majors include Chemistry, Biology, English, Psychology, and Political Science.
A broad view of human history
The course sequence begins with ancient Babylonia and takes us all the way to the present day.
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