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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the major philosophical traditions of India, focusing on othodox (Hindu) philosophy from the Vedas up to modern figures such as Aurobindo and Ghandhi. Faculty: D. ROBINS 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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International/multicultural course (I). This course examines the social impact and influence of African-American philosophical thought through the works of such writers as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Lewis Gordon, Naomi Zack, Bell Hooks, Molefi Asante and Cornell West. Faculty: A. POMEROY 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department Course Attributes: International/Multicultural -I
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Values/Ethics course (V). This course consists of a historical survey of social and political philosophy concentrating on the relationship between the individual and society and on issues of social justice. Faculty: A. POMEROY 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department Course Attributes: Values/Ethics-V
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4.00 Credits
Not open to those with credit for PHIL 3110. Not open to freshmen. This course introduces students to the philosophy of language by considering both general issues about meaning and particular sorts of linguistic expressions that have attracted philosopher's attention. The central question raised by the course is how our words are often able to refer to or say something about things distinct from them. The answer, perhaps, is that our words have meanings, and their meanings connect them to the world; but filling in this answer turns out to be very challenging. Faculty: D. ROBINS 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Literature Department
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the teachings, history, and practices of the three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). This course examines not only how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have viewed each other throughout the centuries but how this affects their relations today. Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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4.00 Credits
Not open to those with credit for PHIL/HIST 1310. This course examines the development of Christian thought from the Bible, through the patristic era, and into the medieval period. Among the issues to be discussed are the Christological debates of the fourth and fifth centuries, the role of Augustine in the West, and the Eucharistic debates of the ninth century. Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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4.00 Credits
Not open to those with credit for PHIL/HIST 1310. This course continues to examine the development of Christian thought from scholasticism, through the Reformation, and into the post-Enlightenment period. Particular attention is paid to those authors (Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Schleiermacher, Barth) whose writings shaped subsequent theology. Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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4.00 Credits
Cross-listed as HIST 2405. This course is an examination of the history and theology of the Christian East. Alongside the historical issues that shaped Eastern Christianity (iconoclasm, relations with the West, palamite theology), this course will also study the situation of the Eastern Churches today. Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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4.00 Credits
This course examines such topics as the role of religion in public life, Christian responses to religious pluralism, and how the churches have addressed 20th - 21st century social concerns (life issues, rights issues, justice issues). Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the study of religion. It examines such fundamental issues as the relation of reason to faith, the classical arguments for and against the existence of God, humanity's relationship to the transcendent, and the problem of evil. Faculty: E. SIECIENSKI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Arts & Humanities Division Philosophy and Religion Department
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