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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisites: General Biology 151, Zoology 241, and OSHE 241[OSH 122]. This course examines the effects of industrial toxicants on the human body. Major topics include: the discipline of toxicology, acute and chronic exposures and effects, routes and characteristics of exposures, target organs and systems, dose and response, and carcinogenesis. It also discusses the toxic characteristics of various classes of toxic materials.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: OSHE 251[125]. This course examines acceptable policies, procedures, and methods for the handling of oil and hazardous wastes produced by industry. Major topics include: advanced aspects of risk assessment, applicable environmental legislation, waste characterization and site assessment, waste minimization and recovery, chemical, physical, and biological waste treatment, thermal waste treatment, landfill disposal and injection well disposal. It also includes a section on the transportation of hazardous wastes.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. An introductory study of philosophy which considers the four basic areas of philosophy-metaphysics (the nature of reality), epistemology (the nature of knowledge), ethics (moral values), and logic (the basic rules for correct thinking).
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. Introductory readings of the works of great philosophers beginning with the ancient Greeks (e.g., Plato, Aristotle) and proceeding to the modern and contemporary philosophers (e.g., Rene Descartes, David Hume, John Dewey).
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. A study of the methods of understanding, analyzing, and evaluating arguments as found in everyday contexts which require practical reasoning skills, e.g., newspaper editorials, advertising, and political campaigns. Designed to improve analytical and critical skills in thinking, reading, writing, and listening.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. A study of the major systems of thought focusing on moral values, concepts of good and evil, right and wrong. Designed to introduce students to the various perspectives on these themes as formulated by major philosophers.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. A detailed study of a topic selected by the instructor. Topics and instructors will vary. May be repeated once, but Department Head approval is required to count more than 3 hours toward the Minor in Philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. Especially recommended for history and political science majors, but open to all qualified undergraduates. A study of the way major philosophers have understood history, usually in terms of their search for patterns and meanings in the movement of history. Special consideration will be given to thinkers such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.W.F. Hegel, Arnold Toynbee, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 102 or 122H. A general survey of readings concerned with the question of what makes something beautiful, or what makes something a work of art. Frequent reference to the arts and artistic practice will be made (e.g., as found in film, literature, music, and painting).
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3.00 Credits
Credit 3 hours. Prerequisites: English 102 or 122H. This course will study the writings of some of the major figures in existentialism (e.g., Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidigger, Sartre, Camus) as well the writings of some of the other important figures in contemporary philosophy (e.g., Wittgenstein, Rorty, Foucault, etc.).
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