“An unexamined life is not worth living” (Plato, Apology, 38a)
Our HUM classes will help Bilkent students:
- Engage in critical, creative, and independent thinking
- Develop an interest in intellectual and artistic life
- Broaden perspectives on the diversity and dilemmas of human experience and knowledge
- Use diverse historical periods and cultural traditions as a framework for a more complex understanding of the contemporary world
- Cultivate the habit of learning and responding to new ideas and challenges
- Think through moral and ethical problems and examine their own assumptions
- Improve both oral and written communication through critical reading and analysis