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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. This course offers an advanced study of the methods of applying ethical theory to range of actual issues encountered in the professions, such as physician assisted suicide, cloning, health care reform, human subject research, faith-based initiatives, and corporate responsibility. It addresses the normative dimension of applied ethics and the cognitive unity of applied ethics as a field.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. This course focuses on (1)documented hours of work experience with ethics committees, compliance boards, or other appropriate opportunities, and (2)a written report of the problems encountered and the solutions offered, with particular emphasis on the student's contributions. This course may be repeated up to 6 credits with permission of the graduate coordinator.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. This course focuses on research and writing. It may be repeated for up to 9 credit hours with permission from the graduate coordinator.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis and evaluation of different accounts of society, social order, and human sociation. Readings from classical social philosophers and contemporary social theorists.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy other than foreign culture. Introduction to philosophical issues in legal theory. Focus is on such concepts as justice, rights, civil liberties, authority, responsibility and punishment. Attention is also given to the relation of law to psychiatry and to morality.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy other than foreign culture. This course examines main trends in recent and current political philosophy. Emphasis is on contemporary philosophical treatments of concepts like rights, liberty, justice, equality, democracy, power, the state, and the political itself. These concepts are explored while examining (a) new theoretical developments like communitarianism, feminism, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, discourse and difference theory, and (b) current reformulations of such classical positions as utilitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and republicanism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. This course is an analysis and evaluation of different accounts of society, social order, and human sociation. Readings come from classical social philosophers and contemporary social theorists.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. The focus of this course is on such concepts as justice, rights, civil liberties, authority, responsibility and punishment. Attention is also given to the relation of law to psychiatry and to morality.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics OR admission to the Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics OR permission of the Philosophy Graduate Coordinator. This course examines main trends in recent and current political philosophy. Emphasis is on contemporary philosophical treatments of concepts like rights, liberty, justice, equality, democracy, power, the state, and the political itself. These concepts are explored while examining (a) new theoretical developments like communitarianism, feminism, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, discourse and difference theory, and (b) current reformulations of such classical positions as utilitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and republicanism.
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3.00 Credits
The course offers a systematic introduction into the major issues and ideas of Existentialist thought, drawing on both philosophical and literary works of Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, deBeauvior and Camus, among others. Topics include the definition of human nature, the relation to others, and the possibility of an Existentialist ethics.
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