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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
With the advice and approval of his or her faculty adviser, the second-year student may choose approved electives offered by the Department of Pharmacology. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity for exploration and study in an area which supplements and/or complements required course work in the second-year curriculum. Pass-fail only. Prereq: Admission to second-year medical curriculum and approval of adviser.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
With the advice and approval of the faculty adviser and the Student Progress and Promotions Committee, the fourth-year student may choose approved electives offered by the various departments in the College of Medicine. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity to develop his fund of knowledge and clinical competence. Prereq: Admission to the fourth year, College of Medicine and/or permission of the Student Progress and Promotions Committee.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to philosophical studies with emphasis on issues of knowing, reality, and meaning related to human existence.
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3.00 Credits
A course which treats argumentation, syllogistic, and sentential logic. The focus will be on the use of formal methods in the construction and criticism of actual arguments, the aim being to inculcate standards of good reasoning, e.g., clarity, consistency and validity. Credit is not given to students who already have credit for PHI 320.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to philosophical studies with emphasis on a critical study of principles of moral action and social and political values.
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3.00 Credits
An historical introduction to the philosophical background of classical physics as the latter was developed by thinkers like Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Concentrating on metaphysics and the philosophy of scientific method, this course includes a study of scientists and philosophers like Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Leibniz, and Faraday. Prereq or concur: PHY 231 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory study of the development of Western philosophy from ancient through late medieval times including systematic work in logic, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics by such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory study of the development of Western philosophy from early modern to recent times including systematic work in logic, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics by such philosophers as Occam, Descartes, Hume and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of the ethical issues and difficult choices generated or made acute by advances in biology, technology, and medicine. Typical issues include: informed consent, healer-patient relationships, truth telling, confidentiality, problem of birth defects, abortion, placebos and health, allocation of scarce medical resources, genetic research and experimentation, cost containment in health care, accountability of health care professionals, care of the dying, and death.
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3.00 Credits
A course introducing philosophy at the upper division level which studies various issues involved in analyzing what it means to be human, in the interest of developing a coherent conception of man. Answers will be sought to questions like these: Is there a human nature? What would differentiate the properly human from the nonhuman? What kind of relations tie a human being to environment, society, and history?
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