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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between sacred text and women's religious and societal roles within Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism during diverse historical moments. Examine the experience of women operating within the confines of their various traditions as well as consider those who pushed the boundaries of their faith communities. Utilize a variety of feminist approaches to the study of religion.
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3.00 Credits
Rational decision-making using only elementary logic and high-school algebra. Decisions under ignorance: max-min rules for preference orderings. Decisions under risk: probability, utility, and the expected-utility rule. Game theory: equilibrium strategies; prisoner's dilemma. Social choices: voting paradoxes and Arrow's theorem.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the ways markets shape not only our economic relations but also our social and political relations. Examine contract law, the legal theory and case law, to see how laws shape markets. Explore the ways in which classical political economy focused not only on the economic benefits of markets but also on their social and political effects. Finally, examine contemporary moral arguments against markets in women's sexual and reproductive labor, in child labor, and in human organs, among others.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the various theoretical explanations for and solutions to gender inequality. The development of feminist theory will be presented as an Intellectual history placing each theoretical framework in conversation with the others covered during the course of the semester. Students will become familiar with a variety of feminist theories including: liberal, Marxist, socialist, transnational, radical, homosexual, multicultural, psychoanalytic, cultural, standpoint, social construction, multiethnic/racial, postmodern, and queer. Our understanding of these theoretical perspectives will be aided by the inclusion of current case studies and class debates.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study of ethical thought and its application to contemporary medicine, with a focus on ethical challenges in the provision and distribution of healthcare. Consideration of such issues as whether there is a right to health care, personal responsibility for ill health, and healthcare rationing.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to main philosophic problems concerning art: the nature, evaluation and value of art.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Cover reception and transformation of Greek Philosophy by Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophers, from Augustine through William of Ockham. Topics may vary, but can include Epistemology, Ethics, God, Causation, and Free Will.
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3.00 Credits
Beginnings of Western science and philosophy. The pre-Socratics, Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics and Skeptics.
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