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Course Criteria
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12.00 Credits
A requirement for certification, observation and teaching in approved schools under approved supervising teachers and supervision by college instructor. Assignment only in major teaching field. All students must provide their own transportation. A minimum of one placement is required in a public school (elementary, middle, or high school). The internship requires a minimum of 60 full days in the public school. A formal application for admission to the spring teaching internship must be made no later than 1 May of the previous academic year.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into the nature of philosophic thinking, especially with regard to the problem of knowledge and the nature of reality. Study of the classical origins of Western philosophy, as well as more recent developments.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the principles and methods that distinguish valid from invalid arguments. After a brief examination of what an argument is, the concepts of validity and invalidity are introduced, and a systematic study of the principles governing the application of these concepts to arguments is undertaken. An ex- tensive treatment of traditional Aristotelian logic (the syllogism, rules of validity, immediate inference, etc.) is supplemented by an introduction to principles of modern symbolic logic.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the nature of morality and moral reasoning through critical analyses of the writings of classical and contemporary thinkers on this subject. Problems regarding the role of reason in human conduct will be examined in detail, with emphasis upon the nature of the good life, happiness, moral obligation and duty, right and wrong, and the nature of moral language.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of what religion is, the role it plays in human life, and how it differs from such other areas of life as ethics and science. The arguments for and against the existence of God are examined, as is the appeal to religious experience (e.g., mysticism). Criticism of religion (e.g., that of Freud and Marx) is considered, as are the roles of faith and revelation and the questions of evil and immortality.
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3.00 Credits
A tutorial course individually designed to meet the needs or special interests of one or a few students. Assignments, tutorial sessions, tests, and papers will be assigned by the professor in consultation with individual students.
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3.00 Credits
A critical look at a variety of crises facing modern humanity and how they impact upon society, including analysis of their trends and how they relate to questions or right/wrong and good/evil. Consideration of crises in relationship to theology, duty, freedom, honor, justice, law, and happiness.
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3.00 Credits
An elementary course consisting of lectures on physics topics in their historical context from Galileo to the present. Covers fundamental techniques which are useful for learning this discipline and the conduction of research. Class notes and library reading will be required.
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3.00 Credits
This is the first semester of an algebra-based introduction to physics. Topics include kinematics, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, circular motion, and fluids.
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3.00 Credits
This is the second semester of an algebra-based introduction to physics. Topics include waves, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, and modern physics.
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