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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) This course is an inquiry into the nature of religion and religious claims, religious thought, and religious language. It includes such philosophical topics as arguments for the existence of God; arguments against the existence of God; the problem of evil, the relationship between religion and other disciplines such as science, history, and ethics; religious language and its special problems; the influence of religion and the philosophy of religion on the contemporary world, and other specific philosophical and theological problems.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) This course is an introduction to some of the great philosophical tradition in the world, both Western and non-Western. It compares and contrasts different cultures from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, the Orient, Native America, and Europe, and their respective and distinctive attempts to discern meaning and order from human existence. Foundations of knowledge and reality, conceptions of God and the afterlife, and ethical theories are among the considered topics. Special distinctions between Western and non-Western philosophical methods will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) An introduction to the art of rational thinking as applied to the critical evaluation of information, the construction and evaluation of deductive and inductive arguments, the resolution of practical and intellectual problems, and the persuasive defense of ideas.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) Prerequisite: PHIL 100. Survey of the major aspects of philosophical thought from the ancient Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) This course is designed to introduce the student to the discipline of ethics and the philosophical questions and issues that arise from within it. It will include a historical overview of several traditional theories of ethics and approaches to ethical decision-making, an examination of the role of reason and logic in ethical analysis, and a consideration of some of the many ethical dilemmas and problems which confront our society today.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) Analysis of modern philosophies of personal and social value. Major contemporary "academic" and "popular" thinkers.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. 3 hours. (Lecture 3 hours.) This course is designed to introduce the student to the discipline of ethics and several philosophical questions and problems found within it. It will include an examination of the dominant classical and contemporary theories of ethics and decision-making models. The applied ethics component of the course will focus on professional issues in business, technology, health care, law, journalism, academia, and other workplace settings.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits. 6 hours. (Lecture 4 hours. Laboratory 2 hours.) A survey of physics with emphasis on mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, and atomic physics. Emphasis on the concepts of physics. PHYS 104 Foundations of Physical Science 5 credits. 6 hours. (Lecture 4 hours. Laboratory 2 hours.) Fundamental principles and concepts of classical and modern physics, astronomy, chemistry and earth science, and their relationships.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits. 6 hours. (Lecture 4 hours. Laboratory 2 hours.) A survey of astronomy with emphasis on the scientific method, observation, tools of observation, and the models, physical principles, and processes that help describe and predict astronomical phenomena.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits. 6 hours. (Lecture 4 hours. Laboratory 2 hours.) Prerequisite: MATH 104. Principles of mechanics, thermodynamics, sound, electricity, magnetism, light, and nuclear physics with emphasis on applications to technology.
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