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3.00 Credits
This course will take a philosophical look at the nature of aesthetic experience. Our concern will be to understand what makes aesthetic experience unique, what are the causes of aesthetic experience, how aesthetic experience might be related to our appreciation of art and nature, and to examine what role knowledge and belief may play in aesthetic experience. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY) (CORE: HUMANITIES)
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This course aims to introduce students from a variety of backgrounds with an interest in health care to the central issues and controversies in medical ethics. The goal is to prepare students to enter the growing fields of medical practice and research equipped with adequate knowledge of ethical issues pertaining to health care practice and research. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an advanced introduction to metaphysics, a branch of philosophy concerned with questions and issues that arise out of the study of the nature of reality. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines conceptual and normative issues in contemporary feminist theory. Issues to be discussed include power and the production of knowledge, resistance, violence against women, sex and gender, the interrelatedness of gender, race, class, and sexuality, body image, the personal as political, and the relation between feminist theory and activism. The class also considers western and non-western feminist discussion of these themes. The goal is for each student to gain an appreciation of the diversity and complexity of feminist thought, as well as insight concerning the relation between women’s experiences and feminist theorizing. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING; MULTI-CULTURAL)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some of the major developments in Western political thought. Through a philosophical lens, students will examine the various and changing concepts that shape current political arrangements. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the metaphysical epistemological, social, political, and ethical dimensions of race. Class readings will include both historical and contemporary philosophical approaches to race and racism. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING)
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy and Religion THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A study of views of eminent philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Descartes, Hume, and Kant. Prerequisites: one course in philosophy or consent of the instructor and ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING; MULTI-CULTURAL)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of recent American Philosophical Thought beginning with recent Anglo/European Philosophical movements which have led to American Philosophical movements including: pragmatism, philosophical analysis, behaviorism, scientific realism, and relativism. Philosophical writing may be drawn from such philosophers as: Carnap, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Ayer, Ryle, Austin, Dewey, James, Quine, Goodman, Putnam, and Rorty. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some important philosophers and movements in continental philosophy. Philosophical movements such as Phenomenology, Existentialism, Critical Theory, Feminism, Postcolonial Theory, and Poststructuralism will be discussed. Prerequisite: ENG 2001 or its equivalent. (WRITING; MULTI-CULTURAL)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
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