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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Selected problems and episodes in the interaction between science and religion, such as the seventeenth-century condemnation of Galileo, the eighteenth-century controversy about natural religion, and the recent creation-evolution debate in the United States. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Critical introduction to the nature of religion. Special emphasis placed on the role of myths, symbols, ritual, religious experience, and religious institutions. Selected topics of the literature of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, or Islam studied. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Marx’s views; their philosophical, political, and economic origins and implications; their connection to communism, Leninism, and socialism; objections by Croce, Popper, Hook, etc. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Introductory critical survey of the classical schools of Indian philosophy such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Samkhya Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimansa, Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, and such recent thinkers as Gandhi. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Ethical issues (e.g., whistle blowing, the environment) that commonly arise in engineering and science practice. Ethical theory, followed by case-study centered discussions designed to hone students’ abilities to recognize and articulate ethical problems and to utilize institutional supports for ethical behavior that already exist in the professional environment. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to ethics by way of such current issues as war and atrocity, the purpose of the university, racism, women’s liberation, violence and aggression, the notions of happiness and success, or ethics of ecology. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Variety of philosophical writings by or about women, from Plato to the present, focusing on such key concepts as nature, equality, dignity, freedom, love, and self-realization; may include feminist critiques of the Western philosophical tradition. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Explores fundamental concepts of human obligations toward other life forms and ecosystems. Includes such issues as rights of animals, plants, and inanimate objects; endangered species; water, soil, and air quality; toxic and other wastes; vegetarianism; global warming. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to extend the theory and practice of reasoned argument by the analysis, evaluation, reconstruction, and construction of extended examples drawn from such fields as philosophy, literature, religion, natural and social sciences, the arts, or contemporary affairs. Prerequisite: PHI 102. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Explores Western philosophy from its ancient Greek beginnings to the present, focusing on the questions, the times, and the achievements of great philosophers. Prerequisites: Upperdivision standing. 3 credits.
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