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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course provides an introduction to moral philosophy and its application to contemporary ethical issues. At various times the course may focus on special topics. May be taken twice, provided the topics are different.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course is designed to familiarize students with kinds of ethical situations and questions they can expect to encounter as professionals in the field of technology management, and to provide students skills and information to enable them to make competent ethical decisions in real-life situations. Topics will include information stewardship and privacy concerns, intellectual property issues, computer security, liability and safety responsibilities, professional codes of ethics, the social impact of computer technology, and related business concerns and conflicts.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course provides a critical study of fundamental ethical issues in a business context. Application of moral theory to real-life situations in business practice, policy, and relationships. Focus upon principles for making moral decisions. Discussion topics may include justice and economic distribution, moral considerations of capitalism, corporate responsibility, ethics in the workplace, affirmative action, advertising, responsibility to consumers, protection of the environment, and other related ethical concerns.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course is designed to create awareness of important ethical issues in sports and to provide students with skills and information to enable them to competently respond to such issues as they occur. Building upon their own experiences with sports, students will explore real-life issues from a variety of perspectives (e.g. as coach, player, parent, umpire, citizen). Possible topics will include the role of ethics in athletic competition, the value of sportsmanship, fairness in sports, use of performance-enhancing drugs, gamesmanship, violence, the role of a coach as an authority figure, friend, and counselor, and whether sports build moral character. Intended especially for student-athletes, the course is open to all who are interested in the topic.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course provides a historic and contemporary overview of Western and non-Western ethical thought concerning the environment and the humane treatment of animals. Students will be encouraged to critically examine their own beliefs, attitudes, and habits relative to the subject matter. Possible topics include saving endangered species, preserving the wilderness, controlling pollution, managing limited natural resources, raising animals for food, using animals in experiments, as well as issues involving the moral status of animals, obligations to future generations, and global justice.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course offers a critical study of ethical issues in the field of communication and media, including print and non-print journalism, radio and television broadcasting, advertising, and to a lesser extent entertainment media such as movies and television programming. Possible topics will include the role of media in a free society, social and ethical responsibilities of media professionals, professional code of ethics, conflicts of interest, truthfulness and deception, privacy versus the public's right to know, when does "news judgement" become censorship, journalism ethics in the online age, what's fair in advertising andpublic relations, ethics and interviewing, and ethical dimensions of entertainment.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course involves a survey of existentialist philosophy, including study of its influence and expression in literature, the fine arts, psychology, and religion. Reflection upon basic existential themes such as the meaning of human existence, freedom and responsibility, the limits of reason, the significance of death, the individual versus society, and the implications of truth as subjectivity. Students will be challenged to consider how they define the world and to what extent they have the power to change the world. Readings from Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Camus, Sartre, Buber, Simone deBeauvoir, or others are used within this course.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisites: PHIL 101 or permission of the instructor, ENGL 106 or 107 This course acquaints students with the principles and methods of formal logic and its application to scientific reasoning, legal reasoning, and creative problem solving. It may also include an introduction to important issues in 20th century philosophy of language.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course is an inquiry into the fundamental nature of reality apart from what it merely appears to be. Focus upon classical and contemporary problems of metaphysics and their implications for everyday life. Topics may include reality and illusion, mind/body dualism, change and becoming, the nature of time, and the very meaning of being.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course explores the general question of what can or cannot be known. It examines classical and contemporary ideas and theories of knowledge, truth, belief, and evidence, as well as possible applications to real world problems.
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