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SUMMER 2025 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/or 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 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.

 

Campus Honors UF Online

CAMPUS

  • Instructor: John Maze, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: What does it mean to dwell between the heavens and Earth?
  • Instructor: Jennifer Coenen, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous 
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  • The Essential Question: Why do stories from the past matter?
  • Instructor: Drew Brown, AAS
  • Format: 100% Online
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  • The Essential Question: What is Black Popular Culture and how has it changed the world?
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  • Instructor:  Jason von Meding, Construction Management
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: Do all humans have the right to safe and healthy shelter?
  • Instructor: Sharon Austin, Political Science
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
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  • The Essential Question: How has UF addressed racial issues throughout its history? What actions need to be taken at UF to ensure that students receive equal educational opportunities and fair treatment regardless of their race?
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  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, LLC
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How is political violence represented, conceptualized and memorialized across shifting literary and visual texts? What ethical questions arise in our engagement with representations of traumatic limit events and the experience of horror these events entail?
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  • Instructor: Danielle VanTuinen, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How have women expressed their agency, authorship, worldview, and their power through their contribution to various movements in music and how have women transformed the production and consumption of music? 
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  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How can pop culture from a foreign culture inform our conversation on what makes a fair and just society and how we can manage conflict?
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  • Instructor: Eleonora Rossi, Linguistics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How do we express emotions through language? Starting from studying how we express emotions by means of our language(s), we will understand the processes that are the basis of communication and emotion, from neural processes to facial expressions, bodily expressions, and the human voice. 
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  • Instructor: Colleen Beucher, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • The Essential Question: What power does music have over us and how does it shape our world?
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  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
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  • Instructor: Rodrigo Borges, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How can we pursue our disagreements with each other in a. way that is both fair and productive?
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  • Instructor: Max Deardorff, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: Were pirates pariahs, or were they vigilantes seeking justice against tyrant monarchs, and what does this tell us about the motivations of people for engaging in piracy?
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HONORS

  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, LLC
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How is political violence represented, conceptualized and memorialized across shifting literary and visual texts? What ethical questions arise in our engagement with representations of traumatic limit events and the experience of horror these events entail?
  • Syllabus

UF ONLINE

  • Instructor: Drew Brown, African American Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: What is Black Popular Culture and how has it changed the world?
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  • Instructor: Sharon Austin, Political Science
  • Format: 100% Online Asynchronous
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  • The Essential Question: How has UF addressed racial issues throughout its history?  What actions need to be taken at UF to ensure that students receive equal educational opportunities and fair treatment regardless of their race?
  • Syllabus
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
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  • The Essential Question: How can pop culture from a foreign culture inform our conversation on what makes a fair and just society and how we can manage conflict?
  • Syllabus
  • Instructor: Eleonora Rossi, Linguistics
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Class Periods
  • The Essential Question: How do we express emotions through language? Starting from studying how we express emotions by means of our language(s) we will understand the processes that are the basis of communication and emotion, from neural processes to facial expressions, bodily expressions, and the human voice.
  • Syllabus
  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
  • Syllabus