THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION - A COURSE DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT

The Epic of Evolution is a course taught at Northern Arizona Universit y. It engages the task of formulating a new epic myth that is based on the physical, natural, social, and cultural sciences. It aims to serv e the need of providing meaning for human living in the vast and compl ex universe that the sciences now depict for us. It is an interdiscipl inary effort in an academic setting that is often divided by specializ ations; it focuses on values in a climate of relativism; and it concen trates on an enterprise for which there are few textbooks at: hand. Th e course is presented in three segments: the cosmos before humans appe ared, the human phenomenon, and scenarios for the future of evolution.