HUM 201 — The Enlightenment
The Canon · 2 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Political and economic philosophy of the Enlightenment — Hobbes, Locke, Smith, the American founders.
- Teaching frame: The arguments that built the modern world, read as live questions — not museum pieces.
Outcomes Served
- Judgment
- Articulation
- Breadth of Mind
What This Course Is About
Rights, markets, contracts, constitutions — the operating system the modern world still runs on, read in the original and argued in seminar.
The Made Thing
A made response defended in seminar.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
- Day 01 — to be written
- Day 02 — to be written
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- Day 15 — to be written
Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.