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  • Music 420: Performance: Recital?

    2.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    An advanced and intensive study of music literature through private tutorial instruction in a single area of instrumental or vocal music. The study of performance related to advanced studies in criticism, history, analysis, and style. Weekly 60-minute lessons totaling 14 hours of instruction per semester. Practice expectation: minimum of 60 minutes per day. Performance requirement: a full recital. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: third-year or senior standing, instructor's consent, and signature of department chair. STAFF.
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  • Music 495: Senior Project

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    The senior project will consist of a recital, original composition(s), or presentation of original musical research. All projects will incorporate significant research and writing, integrating studies in theory, culture, and performance. Seniors must obtain approval from the department prior to preregistration for the final semester. Students are expected to participate as responders at other senior project presentations. Prerequisite: music major and senior standing, or permission of instructor. STAFF.
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  • Neuroscience 250: Neuroscience: Foundations, Future, and Fallacies

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    This course introduces the historical and theoretical foundations of neuroscience. Topics will range broadly from questions at the molecular and cellular level to those of organismal behavior; and consideration will be given to how traditional disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and psychology have helped inform the field. The course will trace the development of neuroscience, considering both its successes and failures, as a means for appreciating its future directions. Prerequisite: Two 100-level science courses (with laboratories). Must be from two different departments. STAFF.
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  • Neuroscience 495: Neuroscience Seminar

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    The seminar provides the culmination of the neuroscience concentration. As a recapitulation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, a significant problem in the field will be chosen for study and students will be exposed to multiple approaches to address this problem. The course will focus on analysis of relevant primary literature with an emphasis on student-led discussion. A major writing project in the course will integrate the student's coursework in the concentration. Prerequisite: Neuroscience 250, completion of or concurrent enrollment in the cross-divisional elective, and senior standing. Limited to neuroscience concentrators or permission of the instructor. STAFF.
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  • Philosophy 101: Logic

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    An introduction to the formal rules of reasoning, with extensive practice in identification and analysis of types of argument and in evaluation of the validity of arguments. Topics include: the construction of arguments, the relation of ordinary language to standard logical form, inductive reasoning (including hypotheses, generalization, analogy, and probability), deductive reasoning, the syllogism, validity, truth, formal fallacies, nonformal fallacies, and practical applications of the rules of logic. An introduction to complex syllogisms and to symbolic notation may be included, but extensive treatment of these topics is reserved for Philosophy 102. Prerequisite: none. J. CUMMINS.
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  • Philosophy 102: Symbolic Logic

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    A study of the formalization of complex arguments, in particular those involving quantification and relations, using principles of deduction in sentential and predicate logic. Course may also explore the semantics of the formal system. Prerequisite: none. FENNELL.
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  • Philosophy 106: Contemporary Ethical Issues

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    Designed to develop the ability to think philosophically about moral issues by examining ethical problems. Topics may include gender, abortion, class, race, affirmative action, and the environment. The course also examines some leading ethical and/or social theories in conjunction with these topics. Prerequisite: none. FENNELL, NYDEN-BULLOCK.
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  • Philosophy 111: Introduction to Philosophy

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    Designed to develop the habit of philosophical thinking by pursuing perennial problems as raised and developed throughout the history of philosophy. Readings include selections from Plato, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and other thinkers, including an introductory section on some basic principles of logical thinking. Prerequisite: none. STAFF.
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  • Philosophy 135: Philosophy and Literature

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    Also listed as General Literary Studies 135. A general introduction to philosophical issues and topics through works of fiction. Readings include novels, short stories, and drama by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Voltaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Sartre, Camus, Borges, Kafka, Duras, Piercy, and others. Prerequisite: none. STAFF.
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  • Philosophy 215: Existentialism

    4.00 Credits
    Grinnell College

    A study of the major existentialist thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and others. Readings will include philosophical and literary texts that explore issues including the nature of the self and its relations with others, freedom and responsibility, anxiety, transcendence, ambiguity, and the absurd. Prerequisite: Philosophy 111 or permission of instructor. STAFF.
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