Spring 2026
From Pixels to Power-ups: Decoding the Artistic Dimensions of Video Games LO2/LO10 (Gimenez-Berger 鈥� ART) new seminar
- In this course, we will explore the significance of video games as dynamic artifacts. Through the lens of art history, we will dissect the visual allure, narrative complexities, and societal values embedded in these virtual landscapes, exploring their role as cultural products that both are shaped by, and reshape, our experience of the world.
Fall 2026
Religion, Animals & Being 鈥淗uman鈥� LO2/LO10 (Proctor 鈥� RELI)
- This course provides an in-depth exploration of the complex interactions between religious traditions, ideas and practices surrounding animals and understandings of 鈥渉uman鈥� identities and natures. Course will treat topics including animal rights activism, vegetarianism, animal sacrifice, ritual practice among animals, religious debates over human evolution, the animal 鈥渞oots鈥� of religious belief and practice and recent theorizations of the 鈥減osthuman.鈥�
Christian Existentialism: Faith, Freedom, and Meaning LO2/LO10 (Bailey - PHIL)
- This course explores the intersection of existentialist philosophy and Christian thought, examining how thinkers across history have wrestled with questions of meaning, despair, freedom, and hope. We will engage classical existentialist tests, such as Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Gabriel Marcel, and Paul Tillich, which also bringing in contemporary voices like Cornel West, Howard Thurman and even your own professor, Julius Bailey who extends Christian existentialism into the realms of race, justice, and prophetic witness.
- Key questions include: What does it mean to live authentically before God? How does Christian existentialism differ from atheistic existentialism? How do sin, despair, and redemption shape human existence? How do faith and freedom remain relevant in a world scarred by injustice and suffering?
- As both a philosopher and a Christian Existentialist, I will guide students in exploring these ideas as living questions, not abstract doctrines, and encourage students to integrate philosophy, theology, and personal reflection.