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3.00 Credits
An intensive course designed to familiarize students with fundamentals of environmental health from a scientific and conceptual perspective. Topics are considered within multi-causal, ecological, adaptive systems, and risk-assessment frameworks. Includes consideration of biological, chemical, and physical agents in the environment which influence public health and well-being.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the field of gerontology is presented from the perspectives offered by multiple disciplines, including sociology, psychology, biology, economics, political science, and demography. Stereotypes of aging and theoretical frameworks for understanding aging are examined, as are normal age-related changes, the impact of social, political, and economic conditions on the process of aging, and the myriad consequences of a growing population of elders.
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3.00 Credits
The aging population includes an increasing percentage of people from a variety of ethnic groups. Although there may be cultural similarities between these groups and the dominant culture, there are also important differences, particularly in the role of the family in decision-making, attitudes and beliefs about illness, dying, and death. Students learn about cultural differences and similarities through observing programs that serve ethnic elders, talking with guest speakers who represent different ethnic communities, and reading several texts related to counseling, healthcare, and understanding grief, death, and dying in a variety of ethnic groups.
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4.00 Credits
General introduction to philosophy. While different instructors will use different materials, typically classical texts, attention will be given to what makes a question a philosophical question and the nature and methods of philosophical inquiry.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of philosophical questions involved in the study of religion, e.g., the meaning of “God,” or “gods;” the traditional arguments for the existence of a god; the meaning of faith and the question of its connection to reason; the problem of evil (of reconciling a god’s alleged perfection with the existence of evil). Note: this is not a class in comparative religion or the history of religion.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the major strategies of proof and disproof central to philosophical reasoning, and of the fundamental concepts and distinctions employed in current philosophical discourse. Aims at providing students who have a serious interest in thinking philosophically with the conceptual tools found to be useful for this purpose. Not recommended as a first course in philosophy.
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4.00 Credits
Study of Western philosophy during the ancient period.
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4.00 Credits
Study of Western philosophy during the modern period (17th century to the present).
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4.00 Credits
Designed to improve reasoning and skills of critical assessment of information. Instruction focuses on practical methods that are applied to case studies from public media such as editorials, essays, propaganda, advertisements, and newspaper reports of scientific studies.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of central philosophical issues that arise within the theory and practice of medicine such as: the relationship of medicine to basic sciences, the roles played in medicine by normative concepts such as health and illness, the nature of causal reasoning in medicine, and the nature of diagnostic categories in medicine and psychiatry.
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