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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course provides a systematic introduction to the philosophical issues underlying environmental and ecological controversies. It will review classical positions on the nature of value and on the status of the human relationship to nature, land, wilderness, and other species. Topics will include such concerns as ozone depletion, global warming, and acid rain, as well as the relation between international justice, poverty, and its effect on the earth's environment and animals. Non- Western views as well as those of Native Americans, and the more recent Ecological Feminism, will be considered. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or one course in the natural sciences or one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines varieties of religious belief, traditional accounts of faith and reason, the existence of God, the relation of God to the world, religion as moral or aesthetic experience, and the basic moral codes of world religions. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy.
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3 hours; 3 credits This course deals with the philosophical foundations of a good society, with special attention given to the concepts of freedom, equality, right, social justice, and the good life. Prerequisites: ENG 2150 and sophomore standing.
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3 hours; 3 credits This course deals with the origins of art in human activity, theories of beauty, and art as expression, as communication, and as ideology. The concepts of form, representation, and abstraction are examined, as well as the distinction between the fine and popular arts. Examples are chosen from painting, music, and literature. Prerequisites: ENG 2150 and sophomore standing.
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3 hours; 3 credits A study of the nature of science and the scientific methods. Examples will be taken from both the physical and the social sciences. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy.
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3 hours; 3 credits This course focuses on the nature, justification, and conceptual analysis of crime, social responsibility, criminal responsibility, and punishment. Topics may include theories of punishment, justifications for limiting freedom, victimless crimes, moral offenses, guilt, insanity pleas, plea bargains, due process, white-collar crime, and capital punishment. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy.
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3 hours; 3 credits Topics and hours to be announced by the department. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy.
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3 hours; 3 credits Advanced seminar or directed study for minors, in an area of philosophy, to be taken after completion of 9 credits in philosophy. Thorough study of a philosophical problem, author, major text, or school of thought; composition of a seminar paper and an oral presentation required. Prerequisites: 6 credits in philosophy at 3000 level.
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3 hours; 3 credits Advanced seminar or directed study for minors, in an area of metaphysics and epistemology, to be taken after completion of 9 credits in philosophy. Thorough study of a philosophical problem, author, major text, or school of thought; composition of a seminar paper and an oral presentation required. Prerequisites: 6 credits in philosophy at 3000 level, including one 3000-level course in philosophy of knowledge and reality.
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3.00 Credits
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