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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(Writing Intensive Course) A study of philosophic issues concerning morality such as moral obligation and responsibility, right, wrong, and values, persons and acts, types of meaning and justification of normative claims; and representative normative issues in ethics. Pre-Requisite: None
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(Writing Intensive Course) A philosophical examination of the basic concepts of the existence of God; the nature of religious belief; the relation of faith to reason; the problem of evil and suffering; the emotional and institutional aspects of religion; time and eternity and the destiny of man; freedom of the will.Pre-Requisite: None
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(Global Studies Intensive Course). This course is an investigation of liberal studies and a liberal education. This course will identify the significance of leadership and followership and the recognition of social responsibility to others. The classical liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic will be approached emphasizing their interrelationships.
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(Writing Intensive Course).This course will study the origins and development of existentialism; its treatment of knowledge, existence and being, and its significance to the present-day world. The contemporary literary and psychological ramifications of existentialism as found in thinkers like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl,Heidegger, Jaspers, Camus, and Sartre will be examined. Pre-Requisite: None
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(Writing Intensive Course). This course is an approach to the use of language in the description, interpretation, and evaluation of literature, music, and the fine arts in general; an analysis of the ways value judgments on aesthetic objects are made and supported.
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This course is a study of classical Greek philosophy through a critical examination of selected writings of the Pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle. Attention will be given to their treatment of universals, the structure of knowledge and related topics as well as their historical position and influence. Pre-Requisite: None
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This course is a study of philosophical movements from Descartes to Nietzsche; Rationalism, Empiricism, Idealism, Positivism, and their contributions to philosophy and modern science. Pre-Requisite: None
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3.00 Credits
A study of major movements in contemporary philosophic thought; chief representatives Materialism, Pragmatism, Idealism, Neo-Realism; Analytic Philosophy and Existentialism.
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(Writing Intensive Course) This course is a study of philosophic issues concerning social and political life: the basis of political authority; the claims of the individual and the community; and the concept of justice. Pre-Requisite: None
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a wide range of issues in applied ethics, focusig on rehetorical strateies employed in contemporary debate. Topics include abortion, euthanasia, sexual freedom, cloning and reproductive technologies, global warming and the environment, cyber-ethics, pacifism, drones and technological warfare, animal rights, sweatships and world poverty, drug legalization, racism and the police state, and capital punishmentadn the prision industrial complex. Different methods of persuasion will be considered, including philosophical and legal arguement; political rhetoric, talking points, and advertising; old and new media; and film, music, and art.
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