Biography
Ruben Garrote, MA, is an Honors College alumnus and an M.A. graduate of FIU’s Department of Religious Studies and Asian Studies Program. For nearly two decades he has taught for the Department, receiving several awards for teaching and academic excellence. He has been an Honors College Fellow since 2004. Prof. Garrote’s interests are varied, ranging from early Christian heresies and the Western esoteric traditions to new religious movements and utopianism. He is especially interested in the imaginative expression of religious and political ideas. Prof. Garrote has been at the forefront of curriculum development at The Honors College since the beginning of his tenure. He has taught Honors courses at every level and regularly teaches the year-long Freshman Seminar IDH 1001 The Origins of Ideas and the Ideas of Origins/ IDH 1002 Other Ways of Knowing.
Upper division courses taught: IDH 3035 Visions of Utopia; IDH 3035 The Conservative Tradition; IDH 3035 Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll; IDH 3036 God and Man in the Great Conversation; IDH 3036 Mythopoeia and the Secret Fire: J.R.R. Tolkien and Imagination; IDH 3036 Other Worlds and the Age of Wonder: Required Reading for “Future I”; REL 4937 Western Occult Traditions