MORALS & MALICE IN MIDDLE EARTH

Spring 2010 Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30 – 2:30

This class will examine issues of good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice

through the literature of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic, Lord of the Rings.

What motivates villains like Saruman to do evil?

What makes ordinary hobbits like Sam and Frodo to perform heroic acts?

A combination of courses:

Ethics (PHI 251) and Composition II (ENG 152)

with Jim Gould (Philosophy) and Ted Hazelgrove (English)

This is an integrated Learning Community where

students and instructors work and learn together so that the two courses become one.

Experience two different instructors.

See connections between the courses.

Stay with the same group of students for two classes.

Earn 6 general education transfer credits.