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1.00 Credits
This class is designed to provide a start into a fit lifestyle. Students will learn how to lift weights safely and to incorporate cardiovascular exercises into their workout. The combination of lifting weights with aerobic workouts will keep the heart and lungs in shape, improve energy, and increase the overall quality of life! Individual classes may focus more on specific areas of fitness and conditioning (e.g. running).
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1.00 Credits
This course provides instruction in general physical fitness (mind, body, health) including an ice skating fitness emphasis. Cardiovascular conditioning through ice skating exercise activities and other exercise activities will be required.
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1.00 Credits
This class provides a high intensity workout using the resistance of water. Instruction will be in the deep water using flotation belts so there will be no impact or strain on any joints. The workout will improve muscle tone, aerobic capacity, flexibility, strength, and endurance. This class is for all levels from the beginner to the elite athlete and can be used to generally improve level of fitness, as part of a weight loss program, for injury rehabilitation or prevention, or as a method of cross training.
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to the perennial issues in Western philosophy, such as knowledge and skepticism, the existence of God, the problem of evil, freedom of the will, and the foundations of morality. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking and the development of understanding through reasoned argument.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course in ethics surveys the history of ethical thought in western culture. Attention is given to such important movements as utilitarianism, deontology, egoism, and virtue ethics. Some attention is given to contemporary moral problems.
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2.00 Credits
The basic ideas of the Christian and atheistic divisions of the existentialist movement are examined in this course, with some attention given to the philosophical situation that generated the existentialist rebellion. Prerequisite: PHL 110 or instructor's consent.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic study of contemporary issues related to the nature of reality. These include universals and particulars, the necessary and the possible, causality, identity through time, and the realism/anti-realism debate.Wherever possible, contemporary views will be related to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. A systematic study of contemporary issues related to the nature of knowledge, belief, and truth. These include warrant and justification, foundationalism, coherentism, skepticism, perception, memory, and a prior knowledge.Wherever possible, contemporary views will be related to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. Prerequisite: PHL 110 or instructor's consent.PHL 301 History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (3) A study of major philosophical works in the Western tradition from the beginnings of Philosophy in ancient Greece to the end of the medieval period, culminating in Aquinas. Offered annually. Prerequisite: PHL 110 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major philosophical works in the Western tradition from Descartes through Hegel in the modern period and Heidegger, Sartre, Russell,Wittgenstein, et.al. in the contemporary period. Offered annually. Prerequisite: PHL 110 or permission of instructor. PHL 301 is strongly recommended.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth examination of contemporary bioethical issues, such as the definition of a person, determination of life and death, euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide, abortion and maternal-fetal conflict, prenatal diagnosis and intervention, problems in the physician-patient relationship, new reproductive technologies, research on animals, genetic engineering, and human cloning. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite: PHL 210 or instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
A conceptual and analytical survey of the important questions linking philosophy and religion. Students will consider the chief contemporary approaches to justifying religious belief, as well as various non-theistic challenges to that belief. The following questions will be discussed: Are religious claims subject to rational evaluation? What can reason tell us about the nature of God? Can we prove that God exists? Why would a maximally perfect being permit evil and suffering? Is belief in miracles well founded? Is the idea of human survival after death a coherent one? Prerequisites: 6 hours of Philosophy or instructor's permission.
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