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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Same as POS 421. Beginning with Plato and ending with Thomas Hobbes. The course explores such topics as the nature of normative theory, the state, the ideal state, the role of the individual in the state, natural law, the relationship between institutional religion and the state, the right to revolution, the state of nature, sovereignty, and the social contract. Portions of political classics are read to gain insight into what they would mean for present-day societies.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Same as POS 422. Beginning with John Locke and continuing to the present. The course examines the state of nature, the social contract, separation of power, moral law, the universal state, the dialectical process, utilitarianism, the roots of capitalism, dialectical materialism and class conflict, anarchism, the nature of liberty, libertarianism, and justice. The writings of leading past political thinkers are read to see how they are still relevant for our time.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Prerequisite: One other course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Advanced survey of selected topics in contemporary epistemology and metaphysics, with an emphasis on philosophical writings in the analytic tradition. (Substitutes for PHI 451 or 452.)
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Prerequisite: One other course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Exploration of contemporary views about the nature, ground, and limits of human knowledge. Topics include the analysis of knowledge, theories of perception, the structure of justification, internalism vs. externalism, and epistemological skepticism. (Substitutes for PHI 450.)
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Prerequisite: One other course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Exploration of contemporary views about the nature of reality. Topics include various issues in general ontology, the relationships between language and reality, the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, and moral realism. (Substitutes for PHI 450.)
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4.00 Credits
Four hours. Prerequisite: MAT 130. Mechanics, fluids, heat and thermodynamics, and kinetic theory.
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4.00 Credits
Four hours. Prerequisite: MAT 130. Wave motion and sound, electricity, light, atomic and nuclear physics.
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4.00 Credits
Four hours. Prerequisite or corequisite: MAT 201 or 211. Introduction to Newtonian mechanics, fluids, sound, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory.
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4.00 Credits
Four hours. Prerequisite or corequisite: MAT 201 or 211. Introduction to electricity, magnetism, AC & DC circuits, optics, atomic and nuclear physics.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours. Prerequisites: MAT 212, PHY 212. Mechanics, nonrelativistic and relativistic theory of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies treated by Newtonian methods using vector analysis.
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