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This is an arranged course for students wishing to do advanced study in a specialized area in sociology. Students must prepare a brief proposal. Permission of department chair and instructor is required prior to registration. Variable credit.
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As society moves into the twenty-first century, people are confronted with ethical problems that often leave them overwhelmed by the persistence and urgency of these problems. From bioethics, affirmative action, gay and lesbian rights, the death penalty, to war crimes and international tribunals, this course explores these issues through the great ethical traditions of the West and beyond. Meets LAC outcomes: AIA1. 3 crs.
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By doing readings of primary works in Western intellectual tradition, this course introduces some of the most important and enduring ideas that animate not only Western intellectual tradition, but also the way in which people think today. From Plato's attempt to define the good life to Descartes' cogito ergo sum, Kant's idealism,and Marx's dialectical materialism, this course lays groundwork for better understanding literary, philosophical, and cultural movements of the twentieth century. Meets LAC outcome: AIC1. A required core course. 3 crs.
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This course focuses on nineteenth-century German and French philosophy, exploring the main philosophical threads that now currently inform the discipline of Cultural Studies. Thinkers often covered are Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Meets LAC outcomes: AIC1, HCC1. A required core course. 3 crs.
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From Ancient Greece to contemporary society, from Plato wanting to ban poets from his Republic to Warhol displaying soup cans as art, the relation between art and philosophy has always been hotly contested and theorized. This course examines the question "what is art " from both a historicalperspective and contemporary life. Meets LAC outcome: AIC1. 3 crs.
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In this course, students will explore some of the most important philosophical ideas from the history of philosophy in the context of everyday life and popular culture. This course will be structured around readings of important philosophers and films in which students see some of these ideas played out. Meets LAC outcome: AIC1. 3 crs.
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Existentialism is a loosely defined, but highly controversial and influential, philosophic and literary movement that began taking hold in the mid-nineteenth century and became widely popular around World War II. The controversy and appeal behind this movement was the way it challenged the major assumptions of Western metaphysical tradition. Existentialism has mapped the foundations of the critical, philosophical, and literary movements of the times. Students will focus on the works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir. Meets LAC outcomes: AIC2, AIB9. 3 crs.
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This course begins with the assumption that the meaning of existence is not exhausted in a conceptual definition. Existentialist thought draws upon feelings and other varieties of non-conceptual experience in order to get to meaning. This places it in a tense relationship with phenomenology, which is originally concerned with a conceptual approach to conceptual thinking. Students will explore this relationship through texts by Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Meets LAC outcome: AIC2. 3 crs.
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Literary and cultural theory has radically affected the political and ethical climate of contemporary life bringing to the foreground questions that have often been ignored or even repressed by traditional ethical philosophy. This class begins by familiarizing students with modern ethical philosophy, and then explores how these theories begin to breakdown under the very rich and complex strains of contemporary life. The objective is to locate and articulate emancipatory ways to think through some of the more difficult questions of our time. Meets LAC outcome: AIA1. 3 crs.
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Psychoanalysis is a field of study that derives its dynamic approach to interpreting human behavior by combining elements of literature, philosophy, and metapyschology. If the appeal of psychoanalysis lies in the way it helps alleviate the pressure of "too much" existing in one's psychea pressure that causes neurotic symptoms, then think of how interesting psychoanalysis will prove in trying to understand the "symptoms" that presently haunt and even threaten thefuture of contemporary society. Meets LAC outcome: HCC1. 3 crs.
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