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1.00 Credits
Course topics include résumé development, employment strategies, completing of state applications for practice, medical malpractice, reimbursement issues, and financial planning.
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2.00 Credits
This course prepares students for successful completion of the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE), necessary for entering medical practice. Students learn strategies for successful study and successful completion of board-style exams. This course integrates study on clerkships and comprehensive review of all topics on the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistant (NCCPA) blueprint.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides a summative evaluation tool to measure cognitive, motor, and affective domains at a point near students' completion of the program. Students perform an objective standardized clinical examination (OSCE) in order to demonstrate competency in interpersonal skills, comprehensive physical examination skills, and professional bearing. Students complete an end-of-course written examination providing proof of medical knowledge and clinical competence.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines those pivotal philosophies that have most significantly shaped the evolution of Western culture. Its aim is to critically reflect on the defining ideas of both tradition and the modern world, and to explore the specific challenges modernity poses to traditional thought. This course is a core requirement, and a prerequisite for all other philosophy courses. It is also offered in the honors colloquia.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with the skills needed to apply logical principles, techniques of critical thought, and argumentation to the analysis of their own words and the words of others. Emphasis will be on assessing the legitimacy of arguments, detecting common fallacies, evaluating evidence and improving skills in reasoning.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the pivotal philosophies from Descartes to Heidegger that have most significantly shaped the evolution of modern Western culture. Its aim is to critically reflect on the defining ideas for both tradition and modernity so that students may explore the meanings of modernity.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the basic issues and problems encountered in the field of ethical theory. These issues include the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, the motivation for morality, virtue vs. rule-based ethics, deontological vs. consequentialist theories, moral psychology, and meta-ethical analysis. As a philosophical reflection upon our moral experience, special emphasis is placed upon rational justification for the stances we take in these issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the fundamental principles and traditions underlying what we call today "environmental philosophy." Students will explore the roots of our contemporary ideas about nature and ecology, animal rights, whether or not nature has intrinsic or merely instrumental value, ecofeminism, "deep" ecology, non-western perspectives on the environment, population, hunger, global warming and the Gaia theory that the planet is a living organism.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the philosophical discussions and debates that dominated the interchange between philosophical and theological discourse in the Latin West from the 11th to the 16th centuries. In the speculations of medieval philosophers, we find the constitutive elements of Western culture and philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
A dominantly phenomenological approach to analyzing the existential structures that constitute a person. Exploration of the possibilities for personal growth and evaluation of the various social forces that limit these possibilities.
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