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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic philosophical systems. The nature and place of philosophy in human thought and its traditional as well as more recent concerns and approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Inquiry into the nature of reasoning and argument, with an emphasis on informal methods of critical thinking; practice in recognizing and evaluating argument forms found in everyday reading, including an emphasis on informal fallacies; student projects that explore and illustrate how reasoning patterns can vary from discipline to discipline.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A study of an area of philosophy based on student needs and faculty consent. (Offered as needed)
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3.00 Credits
A critical and historical investigation of how philosophical traditions (just war theory, realism, feminism, and pacifism) and major religious traditions (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) have been interpreting the causes of war and peace and the possible justifications for war. Students will read and evaluate excerpts from both classical and contemporary thinkers such as Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Walzer, Stanley Hauerwas and John Howard Yoder. Cross-listed as PLST 330.
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3.00 Credits
A critical and historical study of the major social and political ideals of our time, including an emphasis on the concepts of fairness, justice, liberty, law, authority, and the common good. Students will investigate general approaches, such as welfare liberalism (with its ideal of fairness), libertarianism (with its ideal of liberty), socialism (with its ideal of equality), feminism (with its ideal of androgyny), communitarianism (with its ideal of the common good), and multiculturalism (with its ideal of respect for diversity). Specific social issues will also be explored, such as the control of technology and the environment, militarism, racism, sexism, civil disobedience, and rebellion.
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3.00 Credits
A history of philosophy, concentrating mainly on western philosophy from the 6th century B.C. through the 20th century. Students will read a primary narrative text, and will also read excerpts from influential original philosophical texts. Emphasis will be placed both on critical evaluation of historical authors and schools of thought, and also upon the influence of earlier periods on later periods of philosophical thinking. (Spring Semester, even years)
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to engage students in examination of modern Christian thinkers' views on the most vital legal, political and ethical issues of our time. Students will investigate the diversity and richness of modern Christian legal and political thought from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Through careful reading of excerpts from primary and secondary sources students will reflect on present debates about the family, state, role of religion in society and human nature. Among the major figures covered by this course are Gustavo Gutiérrez, Jacques Maritain, Pope John Paul II, Dorothy Day, Karl Barth, Susan B. Anthony, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., Vladimir Lossky and Nikolai Berdyaev. Cross-listed as PLST 455.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A study of an area of philosophy on the upper division level. Based on student needs and faculty consent. (Offered as needed)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 30th percentile on ACT/SAT mathematics, MATH 052, or placement test. A nonquantitative course designed especially for the liberal arts student. A look at how our view of the universe has developed and what that current view is. Topics include solar systems and their components, galaxies (composition and types), and life cycles of stars. One four-hour lecture-laboratory per week and at least one observational field experience. (Offered as needed)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 30th percentile on ACT or SAT mathematics, MATH 052, or placement test. The principles of physics that will be of importance when applied to the health professions. Also designed for liberal arts and education students. Topics include motion and its causes, work and energy, properties of liquids and gases, heat and temperature, practical electronics, sound and wave motion, and atomic and nuclear radiations. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. (Spring Semester)
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