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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Moral and Ethical Discernment. Cross-listed as REL 211. This course explores the tradition of African-American response to slavery and legalized racism. After some brief historical background, this course will focus on three particularly important moments in this tradition of resistance: the slave narratives (especially Frederick Douglass and Linda Brent), the turn of the century debates over education (especially Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey), and the civil rights movement (especially this student movement, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and the Black Power movement.) Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Moral and Ethical Discernment. Cross-listed as REL 213. Designed to be offered in learning community format with BIO 200 Science and Contemporary Social Issues. The course introduces students to moral issues and questions with regard to such matters as human cloning, genetic engineering, stem cell research, euthanasia, the environment and sustainability, and the emergence of life (e.g., fetal development). Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as NUR 222. An interdisciplinary course designed to explore the meaning and mutual interconnectedness of healing, holism, spirituality, and care. Students investigate the role of spirituality in their own lives, the power of healing and care in medicine and everyday experience, and complementary therapeutic modalities. There is special focus on the living-dying continuum, the interrelatedness of the universe, and the implications of cultural differences. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as HUM/REL 231. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Chautauqua Society and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. The objective of this course is to consider the human imagination as it gives rise to certain visions which speak to dimensions of human experience with respect to a depth otherwise lost and hidden in the everyday world. The course explores the predicaments of evil and suffering, joy and silence, to gain an understanding of the need for visions about the boundaries and depths which open within human experience. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Civic Responsibility. Fulfills Service Learning requirement. Cross-listed as HUM/REL 232. Learning experience through participation as a volunteer for approximately four hours per week in a community-based agency within the area. Students will also be expected to keep a journal account of their experiences and attend class every other week for about an hour to process with others what is being learned. The focus of the course is to help students gain an appreciation that being of service to others is a way of learning and a way of growing as a person. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as REL 234. The focus of this interdisciplinary course is to engage in healthy dialogue with respect to problems and possibilities, conflicts and complementarities, differences and/or similarities of religious and scientific perspectives. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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3.00 Credits
Specific areas of concern for philosophical inquiry will be singled out for investigation from semester to semester. Included under these are considerations of the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of law, the philosophy of education. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered Each Year.
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3.00 Credits
Selected periods in the History of Philosophy, e.g. ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, modern philosophy, etc. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore various philosophical and religious concepts in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. Some cultural and historical background will be provided from which students can understand better how these various concepts, with their associated symbols and myths, arose. A methodology will be provided by which these concepts might be related to the spectacle of our age. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Cross-listed as HUM/REL 308. This course will help the student appreciate the religious and spiritual approaches of both the East and West. Attention will be paid to such classic Indian traditions as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism; to such Western spiritual traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and to Native American and Goddess worship. Offered Each Year.
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