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3.00 Credits
This course concentrates on the fundamentals of handling and navigating medium-size sailboats equipped with keels. Emphasis is on recreational use and water safety. A knowledge of the basics of sailing is assumed. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The knowledge and skills designed to save one's own life or the life of another. Major emphasis is on self-rescue skills and extension rescue. This course may be repeated for credit. Credit/No credit grading.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of sports in the United States and their impact on the individual and society. Emphasizes changes that are occurring in the world of sports today, with special attention to personal and societal implications. Not open to students who have received credit for PHEC 300.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course consists of an independent creative or research project designed by the student and supervised by a philosophy faculty member. The nature of the project, the schedule for accomplishment, and the means of evaluation must be formalized in a learning contract prior to registration. (See "Independent Study" under"Academic Policies" section.)
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3.00 Credits
Development of philosophical writing and reasoning skills, including knowledge of logical concepts, their relations, and their expression in formal notation and informal argumentation. Systems to be studied include the propositional calculus and natural deduction. The relations of these systems to the syntax and semantics of natural language will be examined, with an emphasis on application of logical reasoning to arguments in philosophical and non-philosophical writing. Students will construct their own logical arguments in a term paper that incorporates library research and demonstrates appropriate use of secondary sources.
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3.00 Credits
The development of philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics to the Neo-Platonists and religious philosophers of the Middle Ages. Emphasis is placed on selected works of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle, but critics of the presuppositions of this tradition taken as a whole will be studied as well. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy.
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4.00 Credits
The main movements of Western thought from the late Renaissance through the mid-19th century. Major ideas in the Rationalist tradition (for example, Descartes, Spinoza, Conway, Leibniz), the Empiricist tradition (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Wollstonecraft), and Kant and Hegel will be examined. Also, selected critics of the presuppositions of this tradition taken as a whole will be studied. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
A critical appraisal of selected religious thinkers in the Jewish and Christian traditions. Introduces the student to the conflicts in the construction of theological, mystical, or ethical and religious thought. Primary texts ranging from the ancient to the medieval and contemporary worlds will be studied. Cross-listed as RELG 310. Students may receive credit for either course, but not both. Prerequisite: one course in religious studies or in philosophy, or consent of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of major approaches to thinking about the ethical issues arising in the relations among humans, other species, and the earth. This will include ecocentric ethics, ecofeminism, animal rights, development ethics, and some examples of a religious approach to environmental ethics. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or religious studies, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to issues in feminist philosophy, including its critique of Western philosophy and its contributions to major areas of philosophy such as ethics, social philosophy, theories of human nature, and theories of knowledge. Prerequisite: PHIL 101 or PHIL 120, or RELG 318, or consent of the instructor.
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