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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, including background information about the place of prophecy in the canon, the concept and role of a prophet, literary characteristics of prophetic writings, and a structured overview of the lives, circumstances, writings, and message of the Hebrew prophets.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of the four Christian Gospels, including background information about the original language, literary characteristics, transmission and quality of the text, formation of the canon, biblical criticism, and a chronological overview of the major events and themes in the life of Jesus.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of Acts, the twenty-one epistles, and Revelation, including information about authorship, date, occasion, purpose, literary characteristics, and the content of each of these works, which aims to develop a sequential understanding of the development of Christianity from the birth of the church to 100 C.E.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of questions which arise in philosophical reflection on beliefs and concepts central to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, such as how deity should be understood, whether we have a personal soul, whether the doctrine of reincarnation makes sense, and whether ceremony stifles or makes possible our freedom.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of philosophical questions about knowledge, such as whether it can be defined, whether it is one thing in the sciences and something entirely different in the humanities or in mathematics, and to what extent it is achievable by and desirable for human beings.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A critical introduction to topics such as state authority, human rights, justice, liberty, and equality, which are at the heart of understanding the nature of politics and what it is to live responsibly in society.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of topics such as the fundamental nature of reality, the place of human beings in reality, the difference between knowledge and opinion, the nature of the good life, and the concept of freedom, through selections from the writings of the principal philosophers of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially Plato and Aristotle.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of questions which arise in philosophical reflection on beliefs and concepts central to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, such as whether God can be defined, whether God existence can be proven, and whether faith in God is reasonable given the variety and extent of suffering in the world.
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3.00 Credits
(3) An introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern propositional and predicate logic, including symbolization of language, truth-tables, rules of inference, and proof strategy, along with metalogical considerations, and practice applying the system in the analysis of arguments.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A study of topics such as the nature of law, the relation of morality to the law, the moral justification of the use of coercion in enforcing the law, the significantly different types of law, and challenges to traditional understandings of the law.
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