|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
An introduction to the nature of philosophy by a consideration of major types of philosophical questions, such as the principles of rational belief, the existence of God, what is the good life, the nature of knowledge, the problem of truth and verification. Selected texts from representative philosophers are used to define the questions and to present typical answers. Credits: 4 hours
-
4.00 Credits
An introduction to the philosophic study of morality. Deals with questions such as: What is the good life? Why should I be moral? What is the meaning of right and wrong? Credits: 4 hours
-
3.00 Credits
A systematic study of extended arguments aimed at helping students develop the skills necessary for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating argumentative rhetoric. Topics included are argument identification and argument structure, definitions and disputes, deduction and induction, premise verification and informal fallacies. Credits: 3 hours
-
3.00 Credits
A study of the rules and techniques of deductive reasoning, including truth tables and the propositional calculus. Applications to verbal reasoning and translation from ordinary language into the propositional calculus are emphasized. Credits: 3 hours
-
3.00 Credits
A critical examination of the interactions between science, technology and society. The social implications of science and technology will be examined by placing them within the larger context of society, politics, ethics and economics. Issues and problems generally recognized as societal concerns will be emphasized. The detailed analysis of a case study will include teaching of the relevant science and technology. Credits: 3 hours
-
4.00 Credits
A study of the history of selected philosophical topics up to the sixteenth century. Great thinkers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas will be emphasized. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Notes: 3000-LEVEL COURSES Each semester detailed course descriptions are posted outside room 320 Moore Hall prior to pre-registration. If you are in doubt about whether you have adequate background for taking a course, talk with the instructor. Credits: 4 hours
-
4.00 Credits
A survey of modern philosophy from the Renaissance through Kant, with particular attention to epistemological and metaphysical themes in the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Notes: 3000-LEVEL COURSES Each semester detailed course descriptions are posted outside room 320 Moore Hall prior to pre-registration. If you are in doubt about whether you have adequate background for taking a course, talk with the instructor. Credits: 4 hours
-
3.00 Credits
A concentrated study of leading thinkers in modern philosophical existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Sartre, and Camus. Notes: 3000-LEVEL COURSES Each semester detailed course descriptions are posted outside room 320 Moore Hall prior to pre-registration. If you are in doubt about whether you have adequate background for taking a course, talk with the instructor. Credits: 3 hours
-
3.00 Credits
American philosophy from the 17th century to the present. Major schools, figures and tendencies will be considered. Included are early theology, the enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Darwinianism, Pragmatism, Idealism, realism and naturalism, liberalism, post-modernism, feminism, and the minority experience. Among the figures to be read are Jonathan Edwards, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, C.S. Peirce, Dewey, Morris Cohen, Richard Rorty, WVO Quine, Susan Haack, Cornell West, Carol Gilligan, Rawls, Robert Nozick. Notes: 3000-LEVEL COURSES Each semester detailed course descriptions are posted outside room 320 Moore Hall prior to pre-registration. If you are in doubt about whether you have adequate background for taking a course, talk with the instructor. Credits: 3 hours
-
3.00 Credits
An examination of fundamental problems arising from political and social relationships. The main emphasis is on such political value concepts as liberty, equality, human rights and justice. Topics that might be considered include, but are not necessarily restricted to: the nature and basis of political authority and obligation; civil disobedience; tolerance and dissent; the aims of political institutions; law and morality. Notes: 3000-LEVEL COURSES Each semester detailed course descriptions are posted outside room 320 Moore Hall prior to pre-registration. If you are in doubt about whether you have adequate background for taking a course, talk with the instructor. Credits: 3 hours
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|