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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to both deductive and inductive reasoning, primarily in natural (English) language. It is designed to improve the student's ability to read analytical and argumentative material with comprehension, and to write with an eye to argumentative material with comprehension, and to write with an eye to argumentative flow and structure. It concerns such concepts as premise, conclusion, evidence, and hypothesis as they enter into the logical process.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines moral issues that business professionals encounter in their work. Topics include the moral dimensions of a business firm's relationship to the consumer, to employees, to the community at large, and to the environment, and the nature of various types of business and economic organizational models.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy or PHIL 103 - Introduction to Formal Logic. This is a variable content course, available as offered for repeated credit, and focusing on historical themes, individual philosophers, and specific problems in a given area of the discipline. Course themes may include such topics as the free will problem, the problem of evil, and the phenomenon of mysticism in the world's major religious traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. This course examines philosophical ideas concerning politics, economics, psychology, and multi-cultural relations that have served to occasion feminist theories. Such theory types as liberal, Marxist, radical, socialist, and globalist feminism are used to explore things like family, work, gender development, discrimination, subordination, and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy or PHIL 103 - Introduction to Formal Logic. This course examines the history, nature, and method of science, and the relationship between science and philosophy. Among the topics covered are (1) the Greek revolution in thought; (2) the rise of modern science; (3) the nature of reasoning and scientific method; and (4) the relationship of science to philosophy and to human values.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Two years of college preparatory science or the equivalent and MATH 113 - Precalculus II or MATH 114H - Precalculus Honors. This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence in introductory algebra-based physics, which is required for students majoring in many of the sciences and a variety of other disciplines. Topics include measurement and estimation, kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, Newton's Laws, work, energy and momentum, rotational motion, gravitation, equilibrium and elasticity, fluids, temperature and kinetic theory, heat and the laws of thermodynamics.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 101 - General Physics I or the equivalent. RVCC 2008-2009 Catalog ? For updated information, visit www.raritanval.edu 191 This is the second semester of a two semester sequence in introductory algebra-based physics, which is required for students majoring in many of the sciences and a variety of other disciplines. Topics include vibrations and waves, sound, electric and magnetic forces and fields, electric potential, direct current circuits and components, electromagnetic waves, geometric and physical optics and topics in modern physics.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 030 - Intermediate Algebra. This course is an introduction to the concepts of physics and their applications to real world phenomena. Emphasis will be on understanding the phenomena through experience and experiments in physics and not through mathematical manipulations. This course may be used as a science elective by non-science majors; it is required for Physics credit in the Opthalmic program, and is recommended for those taking General Physics without a strong high school science background. Credit toward graduation will not be given for both this course nor General or Enginering Physics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 023 - Algebra Mod 2: Linear Behavior. This course is a study of periodic changes in the night sky, astronomical instrumentation, the solar system, stars, nebulae, galaxies and cosmology. May be used to fulfill one semester of a science requirement for non-science majors or as an elective for science majors.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 023 - Algebra Mod II Linear Behavior. This course studies periodic changes in the night sky, astronomical instrumentation, the solar system, stars, nebulae and galaxies, and cosmology. Laboratory exercises will utilize simulations and night-sky observations. May be used to fulfill one semester of a laboratory science requirement for non-science majors, or as an elective for science majors.
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