Laurence Cooper, associate professor of political science, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a new freshman seminar, "Cosmos or Chaos: View of the World, Views of the Good Life," which addresses the question of what it means to live well. Students in the course will consider key visions of the character of the world and of how to live a good life, as developed though extensive reading, discussion, and writing about Homer, Plato and Aristotle, the Biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospel of Matthew, Augustine's Confessions, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and other notable thinkers.