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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Examines historical and contemporary attitudes and practices concerning illness, dying and death. Encourages exploration of personal attitudes concerning death and medical practices. Explores moral dilemmas in such areas of medical practice as euthanasia, abortion, medical experimentation, genetic research and patient rights.
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3.00 Credits
Studies Greek and Roman mythology by exploring the social, philosophical, and psychological functions of myth and its influence on Occidental art, music, drama, and literature. Readings typically include Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius, Ovid, and some modern interpretations by such thinkers as Freud, Calasso, Deleuze-Guattari, and N.O. Brown.
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3.00 Credits
Explores mythologies from around the world, including South and North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. Compares and contrasts such themes as creation, the gods, evil, the human condition, gender divisions, civilization, salvation, morality, the natural world, death, and attitudes toward non-human animals.
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3.00 Credits
Explores such areas as biological, cultural, and ethical diversity; human impacts on ecological systems; survival and sustainability; resource development and allocation, consumerism, international trade, and other aspects of environmental economies; and the status of values in nature and culture. Expects students to develop their own environmental ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the complex moral dilemmas facing individuals in business and the ethical problems facing business in society. Uses theoretical analysis and the case study approach to examine the way in which the social good, justice considerations, and human rights issues are involved in business situations.
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3.00 Credits
Examines, in a seminar setting, the lives and works of foundational thinkers; possibilities include such persons as Buddha, Nanak, Gandhi, Tagore, Suu Kyi, Ambedkar, Confucious, Mao, Mohammed, Rumi, Rabi'a al-Adwiyya, Al-Ghazali, Socrates, Plato, Aristole, Joan of Arc, Descartes, Kant, James, Wollstonecraft, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Kazantzakis, Sartre, de Beauvoir, M.L. King, Mary Daly, Mother Theresa, Steinam, and Paglia.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: A course in religious studies or consent of instructor. Examines the lives and thoughts of women on three levels: through works of notable individuals on such topics as justice, education, child rearing, community, feminism, dualism, logic, ecofeminism, marriage, and notions of the divine; through analyzing myth and scripture to uncover ancient teachings, common attitudes, and enduring roles of women; and by exploring the role of the feminine in the divine.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: At least one lower division course in Religion, Philosophy, or Native American Studies, or permission of instructor. Covers Native American philosophies and religions, including basic types and elements of traditional beliefs, ceremonies, holy objects, practitioners, visions, and world views; influence of Christianity through missionaries, federal Indian policy, nativistic movements, and syncretism; and contemporary perspectives such as the Native American Church, Sun Dance, God is Red theology, and revitalization. Special attention is paid to selected Indian tribes.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Provides students an opportunity to research subjects in Philosophy and Religious Studies which are not explored in regular courses.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Provides an opportunity to intensively investigate specific topics pertinent to fields of Philosophy and/or Religious Studies, such as Islam, Philosophy of Science, Sacred Texts and the Natural World, Buddhism, Philosophies of Love, Feminist Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Ideas that Rocked the 20th Century.
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