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3.00 Credits
The course is divided into three sections: (1) The foundations of ethics and public policy; (2) the methodical analysis of policy proposals; (3) the application of theory and method to contemporary controversies. The primary learning objectives are: (a) recognizing in ourselves the operations of intelligent planning and moral deciding that are preconditions to effective policy making; (b) making deliberate and controlled use of these operations in clarifying and criticizing policy recommendations. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Different philosophical topics may be offered; if the topic is relevant to applied ethics, this course will fulfill the General Education ethics requirement and will also be applicable to the Professional Ethics minor.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will explore moral concerns and ethical decision making in medicine and health care. Topics include, but are not limited to, health care reform, informed consent, competency, surrogate decision making, quality of life decision making, decisions about allowing death, futility, and allocation of scarce health care resources. The class will also analyze concerns regarding equity, justice, and individual rights to health care.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will explore moral concerns and ethical decision making with regard to the environment. Topics include, but are not limited to, individual, corporate, and state freedoms and responsibilities, permissible uses of animals, and comparison of strategies for protecting natural resources, as well as case studies regarding equity, justice, and individual and community rights to environmental resources.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will explore moral concerns and ethical decision making in business circumstances and the corporate environment. Topics include, but are not limited to, individual and corporate freedoms and responsibilities, the virtues and vices of corporate behavior, individual and corporate rights, as well as case studies regarding equity and justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to basic themes in the philosophy of science. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: 1) Aristotle's philosophy of science; 2) the medieval refinement and critique of Aristotle's philosophy of science; 3) the competitive interplay of the Scholastic, mechanistic and Newtonian philosophies of science during the scientific revolution; 4) the philosophical debates during the Darwinian revolution among competing accounts of everything from empirical data and axiology to theology; 5) the nature of scientific change (with particular emphasis on Thomas Kuhn's work); 6) scientific explanation (with attention given to covering law models, pragmatism and agent causation); 7) scientific confirmation and the problem of induction (with special attention paid to Hume's famous critique of induction and subsequent responses to his challenge); and 8) the realism/anti-realism debate (emphasizing inter alia van Fraassen's constructive empiricism and Churchland's realist critique.)
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3.00 Credits
Course modeled on the graduate seminar: Primary sources researched and the results defended. Specialized interests of advanced philosophy students are provided with a forum for exchange and debate. Prerequisite: Six hours of philosophy. (Spring)
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1.00 Credits
Experiments involving electricity, magnetism, and optics. Continued emphasis on computer-assisted data recording, analysis and graphing; instruction on experimental design; additional practice in report writing. Students enrolled in PHYS 2126 must be concurrently enrolled in PHYS 2321 or PHYS 2326. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the basic concepts of electricity and magnetism followed by elementary concepts of reflection, refraction, lenses, interference, diffraction, polarization, and propagation of light. A brief introduction to radioactivity and resultant radiation. Students enrolled in PHYS 2321 MUST be concurrently enrolled in PHYS 2126. Prerequisite: PHYS 2320. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the dynamics and structure of American national government and the American political system. The course involves a series of lectures designed to broaden understanding of the nature and processes of American government. This course meets the requirements for teacher certification in Texas. Open to freshmen. It is helpful for international students to have had HIST 1301 and 1302. (Fall, Spring)
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