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2.00 Credits
PE 312 - Lifeguard Training Credits: 2 Additional special fees. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Must be able to swim 500 yards, freestyle and breaststroke. A course designed to provide the fundamental principles and skills of lifeguarding, leading to American Red Cross certification. Shinofield. Wintershe
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2.00 Credits
PE 313 - Water Safety Instructors' Course Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A course designed to train and certify individuals to teach all levels of American Red Cross water safety courses. This course does not lead to certification in Lifeguard Training. Shinofield.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on women’s health and alternative ways health can be achieved. Students gain knowledge and tools necessary to prepare them for a lifetime of health and wellness, including examinations of political, social, and medical pressures which may influence a woman’s ability to “be well.” Varied definitions of wellness are examined. Students establish fitness goals and develop and implement service learning projects throughout the term to improve their personal fitness levels and to improve an organization that affects the community’s health. Literature and research are examined on typical American eating habits; food, nutrition, supplements; and making healthy choices. Students’ concerns and interest help determine an exploration of fertility and sexual health, including such issues as infertility, home birth, birth control, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual and nonsexual relationships. Local experts, including health professionals not typically consulted, serve as guest lecturers throughout the term. Orrison.
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1.00 Credits
PE XXX - PE Graduation Requirement Complete Credits: 1 Administrative designation of the completition of the Physical Education requirement for graduation. Credit is awarded upon completion of all required 100- or 200-level PE skills courses.
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3.00 Credits
Open to first-year students and sophomores only. An introduction to some of the major ethical, political, and social problems we persistently confront. Selected readings from major philosophers. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Open to first-year and sophomores only. PHIL 101 is not a prerequisite for this course. An introduction to some of the major problems that arise in inquiry into the nature of knowledge and reality. Selected readings from major philosophers. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
The study of argumentation and modern formal logic. This course explores the basic principles of deductive and inductive reasoning. Students learn to symbolize and evaluate natural language arguments. Topics covered include the study of formal and informal fallacies, propositional and predicate logic, scientific induction, and probabilities. Goldberg, Gregory, Jackson.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a philosophical exploration of one’s responsibilities to the natural world. It has three main objectives: first, to provide an understanding of different dominant ethical theories and their application to animals, plants, and ecosystems; second, to provide an understanding of major environmental issues in current political debates, such as climate change, species preservation, and sustainable development; and third, to facilitate the development of a student’s own ethic towards the environment. Lowney.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the metaphysics of the pre-Socratic philosophers, especially the Milesians, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and the Atomists, and the ethics and political philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Topics include the origin and nature of the kosmos, the nature and existence of the god(s), the trial and execution of Socrates, theories of virtue, the nature of knowledge and truth, justice and the ideal state, the nature of eudaimonia (happiness, flourishing), and the possibility of akrasia (weakness of the will). Mahon.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion in the rationalist philosophers Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz, and the empiricist philosophers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Topics include skepticism about the external world, mind-body dualism, the existence and nature of God, theories of substance, free will and determinism, personal identity, and causation. Mahon, Goldberg.
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