Spring 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). Honors students are required to take an Honors Quest 1 course to complete the UF Quest 1 requirement. 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.

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

Campus

ANT 1215: Indigenous Values
  • Instructor: Kenneth Sassaman, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 3
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 1114: Ethics & Public Sphere
  • Instructor: Jennifer Rothschild, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 28762, 28763, 28764
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Hybrid. Students are required to attend the weekly class meeting at the time and in the room specified in the Schedule of Courses. The other two contact hours are an online asynchronous lecture (or the equivalent) and an online asynchronous discussion.
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus (Clark), Syllabus (Nichols)
IDS 2935: AI + Art/Science/Fiction
  • Instructor: Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Digital Worlds
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 28868 (F3), 28869 (F4), 28870 (F5)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Art Crime
  • Instructor: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 22923 (TR 4, F 3); 22924 (TR 4, F 4); 22926 (TR4, F 5) 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
IDS 2935: Atlantic Creole Languages and Cultures
IDS 2935: Blues Music and Culture
  • Instructor: Timothy Fik, Geography
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: T 4-5, R 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Body, Self, World
  • Instructor: Meredith Farnum, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: M 6, W 6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Comida y Conflicto
  • Instructor: Antonio Lopez, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format:  Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: MWF 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Conflict of Ideas
  • Instructor: Gene Witmer, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 21100 (MW4, F 3), 21102 (MW4, F 4), 21104 (MW4, F 5), 21139 (MW4, F 6), 21142 (MW4, F 7), 21144 (MW4, F8)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
  • InstructorRachel Carrico, Theater
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 22864 (F 4); 22865 (F 5); 22866 (F 6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Democracy in Theory and Action
IDS 2935: Design + Identity in Everyday Life
  • Instructor: Victoria Gerson, Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 22944 (W8), 22945 (W9), 22946 (W10), 22949 (W8), 22950 (W9), 22951 (W10)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Ecological Urbanism before Columbus
  • Instructor: Timothy Murtha, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 19115 (TR 4, F 3); 19116 (TR 4, F 4); 19117 (TR 4, F 5) 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Fairy Tales and Identity
  • Instructor: Rori Bloom, Languages, Literatures, and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Gardens to Read and Visit
  • Instructor: Victoria Pagan, Classics
  • Format: 100 % Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T5-6, R6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Higher Ed and Creative Reading
  • Instructor: Phillip Wegner, English
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T4, R4-5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Human Rights in Latin America
IDS 2935: Mathematics and the Humanities
IDS 2935: Music and the Future
IDS 2935: Novel Women
  • Instructor: Hilary Coulson, Women's Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Passing: Black, White, and Jewish
  • Instructor: Roy Holler, Jewish Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T4-5, R4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Pirates & Power: A Global History
  • Instructor: Anton Matytsin, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Times: 22927 (MW4, F4); 22928 (MW4, F5); 22931 (MW4, F6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Religious Extremism
  • Instructor: Terje Ostebo, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 14177 (MW7, F4), 14195 (MW7, F5), 14196 (MW7, F6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Russian Fairy Tales
  • Instructor: Michael Gorham, Literatures, Languages, and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Self in Asian Philosophy
  • Instructor Jonathan Edelmann, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T6, R6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Social Impact Music Entrepreneurs
IDS 2935: Speaking Truth to Power
  • Instructor: Angela Walther, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 4, R 4-5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
IDS 2935: The Art of Identity in Health
  • Instructor: Jeffrey Pufahl, Center of Arts & Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T5-6, R6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Future of the Dancing Body
  • Instructor: Joan Frosch, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Day and Periods: M6, W6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
IDS 2935: The Horror, The Horror
  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, Literatures, Languages and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Listening Life
  • Instructor: Lisa Athearn, Dial Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: This Must Be the Place
  • InstructorLaura Dedenbach, Urban and Regional Planning
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 21132 (T R 6, F 4); 21134 (T R 6, F 6); 21138 (T R 6, F 8)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: What is a City?
  • Instructor: Sarah Gamble, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 5-6, R 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society Through Music
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus

Honors

IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Hybrid. Students are required to attend the weekly class meeting at the time and  in the room specified in the Schedule of Courses. The other two contact hours are an online asynchronous lecture (or the equivalent) and an online asynchronous discussion.
  • Class Numbers: 13020, 130223, 13077, 13098
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus (Clark), Syllabus (Nichols)
IDS 1468: Why Tell Stories?
  • InstructorAlison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 4000 Words
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Compassion and Arts
  • InstructorAlana Jackson, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 5-6, R 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanites
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Magic and the Supernatural
  • Instructor: Kosta Kapparis, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 9-11
  • Gen Ed: Humanites, 2000 Words
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Visual Meaning & Representation
  • Instructor: Fatimah Tuggar, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T8-9, R9
  • Gen Ed: Humanites
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality

UF Online

IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Online Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: AI + Art/Science/Fiction
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Hybrid. Students are required to attend the weekly class meeting at the time and in the room specified in the Schedule of Courses. The other two contact hours are an online asynchronous lecture (or the equivalent) and an online asynchronous discussion.
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus (Clark), Syllabus (Nichols)
IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Hybrid. Students are required to attend the weekly class meeting at the time and  in the room specified in the Schedule of Courses. The other two contact hours are an online asynchronous lecture (or the equivalent) and an online asynchronous discussion.
  • Class Numbers: 13020, 130223, 13077, 13098
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus (Clark), Syllabus (Nichols)
IDS 1161: What is the Good Life?
  • Format: Online Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
IDS 2935: Mathematics and the Humanities
IDS 2935: Body, Self, World
  • Instructor: Meredith Farnum, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: M 6, W 6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities 
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Compassion and Arts
  • InstructorAlana Jackson, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 5-6, R 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanites
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Magic and the Supernatural
  • Instructor: Kosta Kapparis, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 9-11
  • Gen Ed: Humanites, 2000 Words
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Visual Meaning & Representation
  • Instructor: Fatimah Tuggar, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T8-9, R9
  • Gen Ed: Humanites
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
  • InstructorRachel Carrico, Theater
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 22864 (F 4); 22865 (F 5); 22866 (F 6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Dance, Race, Gender
IDS 2935: This Must Be the Place
  • InstructorLaura Dedenbach, Urban and Regional Planning
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 21132 (T R 6, F 4); 21134 (T R 6, F 6); 21138 (T R 6, F 8)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Self in Asian Philosophy
  • Instructor Jonathan Edelmann, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T6, R6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Higher Ed and Creative Reading
  • Instructor: Phillip Wegner, English
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T4, R4-5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Blues Music and Culture
  • Instructor: Timothy Fik, Geography
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: T 4-5, R 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Future of the Dancing Body
  • Instructor: Joan Frosch, Theatre and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Day and Periods: M6, W6-7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
IDS 2935: The Listening Life
  • Instructor: Lisa Athearn, Dial Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Fairy Tales and Identity
  • Instructor: Rori Bloom, Languages, Literatures, and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Novel Women
  • Instructor: Hilary Coulson, Women's Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Atlantic Creole Languages and Cultures
IDS 1468: Why Tell Stories?
  • InstructorAlison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 4000 Words
  • Honors: Yes
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Russian Fairy Tales
  • Instructor: Michael Gorham, Literatures, Languages, and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society Through Music
IDS 2935: Design + Identity in Everyday Life
  • Instructor: Victoria Gerson, Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 22944 (W8), 22945 (W9), 22946 (W10), 22949 (W8), 22950 (W9), 22951 (W10)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Passing: Black, White, and Jewish
  • Instructor: Roy Holler, Jewish Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T4-5, R4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Art of Identity in Health
  • Instructor: Jeffrey Pufahl, Center of Arts & Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T5-6, R6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 4
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Music and the Future
IDS 2935: Democracy in Theory and Action
IDS 2935: Social Impact Music Entrepreneurs
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 7
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Human Rights in Latin America
IDS 2935: Pirates & Power: A Global History
  • Instructor: Anton Matytsin, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Times: 22927 (MW4, F4); 22928 (MW4, F5); 22931 (MW4, F6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Speaking Truth to Power
  • Instructor: Angela Walther, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 4, R 4-5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
IDS 2935: What is a City?
  • Instructor: Sarah Gamble, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T 5-6, R 5
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Ecological Urbanism before Columbus
  • Instructor: Timothy Murtha, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 19115 (TR 4, F 3); 19116 (TR 4, F 4); 19117 (TR 4, F 5) 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Art Crime
  • Instructor: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 22923 (TR 4, F 3); 22924 (TR 4, F 4); 22926 (TR4, F 5) 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Gardens to Read and Visit
  • Instructor: Victoria Pagan, Classics
  • Format: 100 % Classroom
  • Days and Periods: T5-6, R6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • Syllabus
ANT 1215: Indigenous Values
  • Instructor: Kenneth Sassaman, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: MWF 3
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: The Horror, The Horror
  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, Literatures, Languages and Culture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Conflict of Ideas
  • Instructor: Gene Witmer, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 21100 (MW4, F 3), 21102 (MW4, F 4), 21104 (MW4, F 5), 21139 (MW4, F 6), 21142 (MW4, F 7), 21144 (MW4, F8)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Religious Extremism
  • Instructor: Terje Ostebo, Religion
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 14177 (MW7, F4), 14195 (MW7, F5), 14196 (MW7, F6)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: Comida y Conflicto
  • Instructor: Antonio Lopez, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Format:  Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: MWF 6
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International
  • Syllabus
IDS 2935: AI + Art/Science/Fiction
  • Instructor: Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Digital Worlds
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Days and Periods: 28868 (F3), 28869 (F4), 28870 (F5)
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality
IDS 2935: AI + Art/Science/Fiction
IDS 1114: Ethics & Public Sphere
  • Instructor: Jennifer Rothschild, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Days and Periods: 28762, 28763, 28764
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • Syllabus