No one, regardless of what they may think, exists in isolation. We may, if we choose, live isolated from our fellow human beings as a hermit; we are, never-the-less, the product of all that has come before us.
          Courses in the Humanities or Western Civilisation provide an opportunity for students to begin to get a sense of the past which has created the present. It will expose each student to the arts, history, literature, music, philosophy, religious thought, and science of our collective past.
          Through a study of these various subjects we can, together ask again the age old questions of 'who am I,' 'where am I,' 'why am here,' and, if Douglas Adams is to be believed, 'where do we go for lunch?'

M.A., Philosophy, Universitè d'Ottawa [1976]
M.A., History, University of Northern Iowa [1990]
M.A., English, University of Northern Iowa [1990]