An introduction to global thought systems from Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, the Bible and Qur’an to Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, W.E.B. DuBois, and John Stuart Mill, and Cambridge, Boston, and surrounding communities. Guest speakers, and field trips to local institutions such as the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Institute for Contemporary Art supplement lectures and discussions.