Fall 2023 UF Quest 1 Courses

About UF Quest

UF Quest invites students to consider why the world is the way it is and what they can do about it. Students examine questions that are difficult to answer and hard to ignore in a world that is swiftly changing and becoming increasingly more complex. What makes life worth living? What makes a society a fair one? How do we manage conflicts? Who are we in relation to other people or to the natural world?

The UF Quest 1 Requirement

UF Quest 1 courses fulfill the UF Quest 1 requirement and 3 credits of the General Education requirement in the Humanities (see the UF Quest Requirement page for more information). Some UF Quest 1 courses may also fulfill either the Diversity (D) or the International (N) requirement and/or count toward the Writing requirement. 

UF Quest 1 Courses

Click on the links below to learn more about the individual courses and to access course syllabi, which will be posted at least 3 days before the semester begins. Click the Campus, Honors, or UF Online button to filter by program or type in the search field to look for a particular subject, topic, instructor, etc. For the day and periods that the classes meet, please consult the Schedule of Courses. A note is provided in One.UF for each UF Quest 1 and UF Quest 2 course so you can easily distinguish them. 

New Student Registration

The New Student Survey includes only those courses listed as IDS 2935. During drop/add, any remaining seats in Quest 1 courses will be released to all students. For more information, please consult the New Student Guide to UF Quest.

Course Themes Culture Built Environment Literature Music Society Art Theater Dance
General Education Requirements Diversity International 2000 words 4000 words

Campus

ARC 1101: Places and Spaces
  • Instructor: John Maze, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
CLA1812: Medicine, Science and the Dawn of Reason
  • Instructor: Kostas Kapparis, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
IDS 1114: Ethics and the Public Sphere
IDS 1307: Writing Life: Art, Drama, Film, Literature, Poetry, and You
  • Instructor: Carolyn Kelley, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 words 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: AI, Philosophy and Society
IDS 2935: Art Crime
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
IDS 2935: Atlantic Creole Languages and Cultures
IDS 2935: Becoming Black
  • Instructor: Abdoulaye Kane, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Description: Becoming black is an interdisciplinary class that explores the ways blackness and race, have been shaped and discussed by various thinkers, writers, filmmakers, and artists from the antiquity to the contemporary moment, across America, Europe and Africa. 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Body, Self, World
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
IDS 2935: Design + Identity in Everyday Life
IDS 2935: Documentary, Identity & Media
  • Instructor: Ying Xiao, Languages, Literatures and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 4000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: European Experience
IDS 2935: Finding Your Voice In the Era of AI
  • Instructor: Tina Tallon, Music
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
    Syllabus
IDS 2935: Globalization Cities Cinema
  • Instructor: Vandana Baweja, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: God, Humanity and Evolution
  • Instructor:  Todd Best, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Human Shelter Development
  • InstructorJason von Meding, Construction Management
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Is There Culture in Dance and Music?
IDS 2935: Las Américas: Comida y Conflicto
  • Instructor: Paola Uparela, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Format:  Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Life Well Played
IDS 2935: Madness/Race/Histories
  • Instructor: Nancy Hunt, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Music and Global Politics
  • Instructor: Ido Oren, Political Science
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Musical Elements of Emotion
IDS 2935: Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture
  • Instructor: Bron Taylor, Religion 
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
  •  Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Politics and Identity in Contemporary Art
  • Instructor:  Flounder Lee, Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Post Holocaust American Jews
IDS 2935: Rhetoric of AI
  • Instructor: Zea Miller, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Sounding the Alarm: Music and Social Engagement with the Environment
IDS 2935: Story, Rhetoric, and Culture
IDS 2935: The Anatomy of a Story
  • InstructorAlison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Future of the Dancing Body
  • Instructor: Joan Frosch, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
IDS 2935: The Listening Life
IDS 2935: The Long Civil Rights Movement
IDS 2935: Time, Culture, and Identity
  • Instructor: Emily Bald, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
IDS 2935: Why Sports Matter
  • Instructor: David Canton, African American Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Wisdom and Heroism: Great Books in the Medieval World
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society Through Music
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality
PHI 1322: Idea of Happiness
  • InstructorNathan Rothschild, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
PHI 1643: Cultural Animals
THE 1431: Autobiography in Literature & Performance
  • Instructor: Manuel Simons, Theater and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 words

Honors

IDS 2935: Democracy in Theory and Action
IDS 2935: Mathematics and the Humanities
IDS 2935: Secrets of Alchemy
IDS 2935: The Posthuman Condition

UF Online

IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Online Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
  • InstructorRachel Carrico, Theater
  • Format: 100% Online with Required Weekly Meetings
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Finding Your Voice In the Era of AI
  • Instructor: Tina Tallon, Music
  • Format: 100% Online with Required Weekly Meetings
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words


  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture
  • Instructor: Bron Taylor, Religion 
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
  •  Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
IDS 2935: Musical Elements of Emotion
IDS 2935: Mathematics and the Humanities
IDS 2935: Body, Self, World
IDS 2935: Post Holocaust American Jews
IDS 2935: Life Well Played
IDS 2935: The Listening Life
IDS 2935: Time, Culture, and Identity
  • Instructor: Emily Bald, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
IDS 2935: Globalization Cities Cinema
  • Instructor: Vandana Baweja, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Why Sports Matter
  • Instructor: David Canton, African American Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Politics and Identity in Contemporary Art
  • Instructor:  Flounder Lee, Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
IDS 2935: Story, Rhetoric, and Culture
IDS 2935: Atlantic Creole Languages and Cultures
IDS 2935: The Future of the Dancing Body
  • Instructor: Joan Frosch, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
IDS 2935: Design + Identity in Everyday Life
IDS 2935: Becoming Black
  • Instructor: Abdoulaye Kane, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Description: Becoming black is an interdisciplinary class that explores the ways blackness and race, have been shaped and discussed by various thinkers, writers, filmmakers, and artists from the antiquity to the contemporary moment, across America, Europe and Africa. 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: European Experience
IDS 2935: The Posthuman Condition
IDS 2935: Rhetoric of AI
  • Instructor: Zea Miller, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Anatomy of a Story
  • InstructorAlison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Is There Culture in Dance and Music?
IDS 2935: Finding Your Voice In the Era of AI
  • Instructor: Tina Tallon, Music
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
    Syllabus
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society Through Music
IDS 2935: Documentary, Identity & Media
  • Instructor: Ying Xiao, Languages, Literatures and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 4000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Democracy in Theory and Action
IDS 2935: AI, Philosophy and Society
IDS 2935: Madness/Race/Histories
  • Instructor: Nancy Hunt, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Long Civil Rights Movement
IDS 2935: Art Crime
IDS 2935: Secrets of Alchemy
IDS 2935: God, Humanity and Evolution
  • Instructor:  Todd Best, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Human Shelter Development
  • InstructorJason von Meding, Construction Management
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Sounding the Alarm: Music and Social Engagement with the Environment
IDS 2935: Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture
  • Instructor: Bron Taylor, Religion 
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
  •  Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Music and Global Politics
  • Instructor: Ido Oren, Political Science
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Las Américas: Comida y Conflicto
  • Instructor: Paola Uparela, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Format:  Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture
  • Instructor: Bron Taylor, Religion 
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
  •  Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Finding Your Voice In the Era of AI
  • Instructor: Tina Tallon, Music
  • Format: 100% Online with Required Weekly Meetings
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words


  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
  • InstructorRachel Carrico, Theater
  • Format: 100% Online with Required Weekly Meetings
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
CLA1812: Medicine, Science and the Dawn of Reason
  • Instructor: Kostas Kapparis, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
PHI 1643: Cultural Animals
PHI 1322: Idea of Happiness
  • InstructorNathan Rothschild, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
IDS 1114: Ethics and the Public Sphere
IDS 1307: Writing Life: Art, Drama, Film, Literature, Poetry, and You
  • Instructor: Carolyn Kelley, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 words 
  • Syllabus
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality
THE 1431: Autobiography in Literature & Performance
  • Instructor: Manuel Simons, Theater and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 words
ARC 1101: Places and Spaces
  • Instructor: John Maze, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Wisdom and Heroism: Great Books in the Medieval World
IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Online Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus