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Identify the tone, purpose, audience, and main ideas of a text and interpret its meaning through close analysis (Core Goal 1, critical inquiry)  \n2. Critically evaluate arguments (Core Goal 1, critical inquiry)  \n3. Synthesize materials to construct and express ideas, formulate positions, and solve problems (Core Goal 1, critical inquiry)  \n4. Formulate a research question or problem (Core Goal 1, critical inquiry)  \n5. Define and articulate the extent and type of information and sources needed (Core Goal  \n1, technological competence and information literacy)  \n6. Use appropriate technologies to access the needed information effectively (Core Goal 1, technological competence and information literacy)  \n7. Interpret and evaluate information and its sources critically and incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base (Core Goal 1, technological competence and information literacy)  \n8. Use information and information technologies ethically, legally, and effectively (Core Goal 1, technological competence and information literacy)  \nCatalog Description  \nAn introduction to college-level academic study though a multidisciplinary examination of a topic of enduring human significance. Each seminar prepares students for subsequent academic work by emphasizing development of critical reading and reasoning skills, argumentation, information literacy, and academic research. Attention is also given to cultivating an appreciation for intellectual virtues that are characteristic of the liberally educated person, such as curiosity, open-mindedness, creativity, perseverance, and independent thinking. Several seminars are also thematically linked to another requirement of the Core Curriculum, creating a shared two-course learning community. Collectively, the seminar and learning community enable deep study of a perennial issue, sustained interaction with peers and professors, and practice in making connections across courses.  \nIntroduction  \nThe quest for meaning and purpose in our lives requires intellectual inquiry, debate, reflection, and a lifelong willingness to continue searching when answers prove elusive, contradictory, or transitory. Encouragement and guidance in our life-long journey can be found in the way  \nhistory’s best thinkers, from a wide range of disciplines and cultures, have attempted to unravel the mysteries of human existence and chart a path toward a full, meaningful, and good life. The sections offered in the College Seminar provide students the opportunity to explore, individually and collectively, the ways in which other thinkers have addressed vexing issues and to begin the foundational work of examining their own lives and envisioning the lives they hope to lead. Each section of the seminar will focus on some facet ofour quest for meaning: How should we live among one another in various communities? How is our unique identity constructed? How do significant values such as love, beauty, and truth give our life texture, depth, and purpose?  \nEach section of the College Seminar focuses on one of several enduring human quests for meaning (namely, our quests for identity, truth, love, community, and beauty) . Students will read in a wide-range of texts that will inspire, provoke, challenge, illuminate, affirm and in many other ways contribute to their development as free-thinking, independent, liberally educated individuals steeped in the knowledge of intellectual traditions and conversant with the views of others. 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