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3.00 Credits
The Senior Mathematics Seminar integrates learning from the courses in mathematics with courses from the rest of the student's academic experience. The course fosters interdisciplinary partnerships between the mathematics department and other university departments and is designed to assess cognitive, experiential, and critical thinking capabilities in a manner that requires the command, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge and skills.
Prerequisite:
MAT 0122, MAT 0200, MAT 0203, either MAT 0310 or MAT 0422.
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3.00 Credits
Supervised experience in a business/engineering setting. Faculty-student conferences and evaluation sessions will be held periodically. Amount of credit to be arranged based on internship contract and college-wide internship criteria.
Prerequisite:
Completion of Junior Year requirements for Math Major degree.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the methods and problems of philosophy and to important figures in the history of philosophy. Topics include the nature of knowledge and reality, free will and determinism, the mind/body problem, the existence of God, and the meaning of life. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
Prerequisite:
WRT 0110
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of a variety of methods of effective reasoning, to assist them in attaining an increased level of skill in the practical application of logical methods, and to develop their ability to detect and avoid fallacious and ineffective methods of reasoning.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course in the history of western philosophy intended to introduce students to the theories of prominent ancient and medieval philosophers. Concentration on works by the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and others.
Prerequisite:
WRT 0110
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of modern western philosophy with special emphasis on Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. Concentration on works by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and their influence on Kant.
Prerequisite:
WRT 0110
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic concepts, principles, and methods of argument analysis and evaluation, including deductive vs. inductive reasoning, validity, soundness, truth tables, deductive proof, and probability and statistical reasoning. May also include Aristotelian logic, informal fallacies, and causal reasoning and scientific method. Helpful for students preparing for GREs or LSATs.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to and analysis of the central texts and theories of western political thought. Material will be drawn from the ancient and medieval world, the Renaissance, and modern and contemporary thought. Topics include the nature of justice, equality, liberty, rights, and political obligation. Among the theories covered are conservatism and neo-conservatism, classical liberalism, libertarianism, socialism, and other current political theories.
Prerequisite:
WRT 0110
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, with a view to examining not just the various understandings of self-cultivation and its transformative effect on the individual, but also to examine the greater philosophical contexts within which the practical concerns for self-realization are situated. In so doing we will explore a variety of views on the nature of reality, knowledge, ethics, and social life.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of classical and contemporary views on the nature of woman and the variety of responses within the feminist movement to the situation of women in modern society; emphasis is placed on discovery of underlying philosophical presuppositions concerning human nature, human good, equality, masculinity, and femininity.
Prerequisite:
WRT 0110
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