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3.00 Credits
Supervised, individual investigation of a topic of special interest, generally in the form of an experimental project. However, any activity which affords an opportunity for learning not usually provided by the classroom situation is seriously considered. Prerequisites: written approval of the program coordinators after submission of an application, including a prospectus, to the department at least two weeks before preregistration.
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3.00 Credits
Students enrolled in Honors Research participate in PSY 601, 602, NS 631, 632.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce the beginning student to the concept of peacemaking as it relates to a liberal arts education. It will explore the reasons for violence and conflict, from personal to international, and will explore historically and multiculturally the many ways societies have found peaceful alternatives. The relationship between peace and justice will be an important theme, as will the ways that religious communities have included peacemaking as part of their “faithful” response to conflict.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar course is an experientially based, hands-on exploration of ways to work through conflict and to create conditions of sustainable peace. This seminar will incorporate service learning and civic engagement at the local, national, or international level. Prerequisite: PAX 101 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore various themes introducing the student to the whole discipline of philosophy, the history of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the contemporary thinkers, and some of the divisions of philosophical thought such as epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic introduction to critical thinking. This study of the methods and principles for the evaluation of argument includes formal techniques for reasoning that provides conclusive grounds for the truth of its conclusions. Both traditional (Aristotelian) and modern (Boolean) logic are considered, as is informal logic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be an examination of the philosophical ideas of justice that surfaced in the Golden Age of Greece and will include a travel-abroad component. The emphasis will be on the early establishment of a “people’s court” in which a jury of citizens stands judicial watch, continuing through the development of the Athenian judicial system that tried, convicted, and sentenced Socrates. Focus will be on differentiating the two types of justice that surfaced (shame and guilt), with a view towards understanding the impact that the Socratic idea of justice had on the development of Western culture.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the conceptual history that is Western philosophical thought, starting with its surge within the ancient Greek Ionian civilization (approximately 600 B.C.) and continuing until the end of the Medieval period (around 1400 A.D.). Emphasis will be placed on reading primary sources, in English translation, as a vehicle to understanding first the philosophical method itself; secondly, the philosophical problems that have defined Western philosophy; and thirdly, the developmental nature of philosophical thought. Authors to be discussed may include: the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Abelard, Maimonides, Avicenna, Averroes, and others.
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1.00 Credits
Studies of the various historical periods of philosophy, such as the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods, and studies of the thought characteristic of particular centuries, such as the 19th and 20th centuries. More than one course in this sequence may be taken for credit, as long as each course has a different number, indicating different content.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the philsophical period that began with the philosophy of Rene Descartes, whose impact led to a redirecting of intellectual efforts and still reverberates today. Beginning with his attack on the epistemological methodologies of his contemporaries, this course will trace the impact that Cartesian philosophy had on his contemporaries and the philosophical responses that followed. Included will be an examination of the primary epistemological divisions of the time (rationalism and empiricism), as expressed by the key philosophers of the time period (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume), as well as a look at the culminating transitional figure who closes the period (Immanuel Kant).
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