Connecting Organs, Origins, and Purpose

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

This 1-credit course is designed to complement a student’s attendance at the 1.5 day teaching conference, ‘What is an Organ?’ co-sponsored by the College of Science and the Science and Religion Initiative of the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Students will learn of key concepts in anatomy related to the biological nature and purpose of organs - both as a structure in their own right and as part of an integrated system, will become familiar with key theological ideas related to our creation imago Dei, the concept of purpose both with respect to its physical and eschatalogical components, and will develop a holistic understanding of the relationship between faith/reason, science/religion, generally, and the relationship between our scientific concept of the human body (i.e. organs, organ system)/theological understanding of purpose, specifically.