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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 9 and 10. This course examines the basic positions and concepts within the field of environmental philosophy. A primary emphasis will be placed upon understanding our moral obligations toward the natural environment. Representative course topics may include the following: What is nature? Do humans have direct duties toward the natural world? What is deep ecology? Should we conserve or preserve our natural environment? Do intrinsic values exist in nature? Is a land ethic possible? What is ecofeminism?
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 8. This course explores proposed answers to the question, "What role can religion play when considering questions about the meaning of life?" The course will consider the traditional arguments for the existence of god as expressed by western thinkers as well as non-western efforts to reconcile order and disorder in the universe. The course will focus on the relationship between faith and reason and will reflect on the nature of religious experience and how diverse cultures express various ways of knowing about the divine.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2 and 9. In this course we will explore ethical issues that arise from advancements in science and technology (e.g. genetic engineering, cloning, patent rights) as well as look at the philosophical underpinnings of current scienfic research and how philosophy is different from science and the law.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2 and 6. This course provides an introduction to existential philosophy, explorations of key existentialist ideas, and discussions of how existential thought might be applied to such themes as freedom, existence, despair, authenticity, alienation, and death. Existentialism, as the name implies, emphasizes existence (that one is) over essence (what one is). The most famous definition of existentialism was articulated by Jean-Paul Sartre, who called it the theory that existence precedes essence. In other words, you are what you make yourself to be - you create your essence as you go along. The course will look at influential existentialists from Kierkegaard to Sartre and Camus.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Area 4. This course is designed as an introduction to symbolic logic, as well as the nature of language and multiple methodologies for proving arguments. This course will focus on formal systems of logic, deductive validity; and will include proofs, methods and translation in sentential and predicate logics. The course will also have an introduction to meta-theory, the extensions of logic and explore inductive logic.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 8. This course explores the standard introduction to philosophy-type questions (e.g. does God exist; are humans completely physical beings; can we have knowledge; how can we differentiate between right and wrong; do we have free will; etc.) mainly from the standpoint of non-Western thinkers. We will consider how such questions have been pursued and answered in historically non-dominant cultures (i.e. Asian, Africana, Latin American and indigenous) and compare and contrast our findings with the dominant Western philosophies. After taking this course, students should be better able to place contemporary philosophical issues in a global context and be better able to interact with and understand members of a diverse society.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. In this course, we will addressed issues with regards to a critical examination of some philosophical problems concerning the nature and evaluation of social and political organizations over the course of human history. We will explore a detailed philosophical analysis of the writings (both classical and contemporary) about social and political concepts such as freedom, democracy, socialism, communism, fascism, and anarchy, with a particular interest in the evolution of these concepts. Questions concerning the nature, justification, and limits of political power will be explored. In addition to this, theories of distributive justice, culpability, causality and responsibility will be examined in connection with the study of important political and social positions.
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4.00 Credits
Concordia Course
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4.00 Credits
Concordia Course
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4.00 Credits
Concordia Course
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