What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search

With the pressures and frenzied pace of contemporary American life, it might sometimes feel as if there is little time to contemplate the question of what makes for a meaningful life. How does a person find deeper meaning for him/herself? What is the purpose of my life? What is the relationship of the meaning of my life to a larger purpose? How do our lives fit into the world around us? The course explores, from many perspectives, some of the responses to the "big questions" of life. Readings and films are taken from different cultures, different time periods, and different spheres of human endeavor and experience.