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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Some ethical problems and ethical guidelines are of particular concern to citizens and to professionals interested in health care fields. Examples are informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, organ transplant policies, professional standards versus patient rights, assisted suicide, ethics of testing/screening, health care policy and reform. Class members will explore such issues through case studies in a context of relevant ethical history and theory. Junior/senior standing encouraged. No prerequisites. S/2
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3 credits. Ethical issues occurring in business and public administration. Basic values promoted or inhibited by people and institutions in these areas will be investigated. Case studies will also be used within a context of ethical theory and history, to explore more defined problems such as unsafe products, employee rights, the relation between business life and personal life, and many more. F/2
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A historical and critical survey of different Buddhist schools in India, China, Tibet, and Japan. S/3
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credits. A selected topic in the area of religious studies such as Atheism, Religion and Public Life, Lessons of the Holocaust, Religion and the Environment, Greco-Roman Religion, African American Religious History, Women Religious Writers, F, S
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3 credits. A consideration of philosophical problems arising from the methodology of the behavioral sciences. Of special relevance to students majoring in Psychology, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology or Sociology. S/2
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A survey of Asian religions in the U.S., with special attention paid to the ways in which Asian religions are becoming Americanized and American popular culture is becoming Easternized. S/3
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. An investigation of the nature of both law and legal reasoning. Study of the nature of law focuses on theories of natural law, legal positivism, and legal realism. Legal reasoning concerns justified interpretation of precedent and statute within the common law tradition. Additional topics dealt with as time allows, encompass such issues as the justification of punishment and enforcement of morality. F
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. The psychological significance of various types of religious experience, personal and social. An examination of classical psychological statements about religion including James, Allport, Kierkegaard, Freud, and Jung. S/2
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A study of traditional problems in ethical theory including the foundations of ethical philosophy, the nature of the good, ethical relativity, free will versus determinism. Although case studies and contemporary examples will appear in discussions, the central focus of the course will be historical and theoretical. F/3
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A study of the philosophic aspects of science and technology. Problems include, what makes a theory scientific?, is there a scientific "method?", can one believe in science and religion at the same time?, how can we tell whether a technological enterprise is a reasonable risk or a negligent gamble?, how should a technological advance be controlled. S/3
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