Intellectual Heritage

Intellectual Heritage represents the most distinctive feature of the core curriculum at Temple University. It introduces students to some of the most important and influential ideas in the world. Through a careful reading of primary texts written during the past three thousand years, students discover and compare basic concepts and values as expressed in imaginative literature, science, religion, and social and political thought.

Prerequisite

English 1002 (formerly C050) or equivalent

Requirements

IH 1196 (formerly X051) and IH 1297 (formerly X052). Normally, students will take IH 1196(X051) in the semester immediately following the completion of English 1002 (C050) and will take IH 1297 (X052) immediately after completing IH 1196 (X051).