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2.00 Credits
2 hours; 1 credit This course is designed to inform students about current issues and practices in fitness and wellness. It combines theory and practice in lectures and physical activities to enable students to plan for a healthy independent future. Prerequisite: Current medical examination on file with the College Health Center. Successful completion of PED 190 fulfills the general education requirement in Physical Education.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits A study of those systems of Western thought that have had the greatest effect and that have best illuminated the central problems of human existence. (social science)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Social and individual conduct in the light of important ethical theories of Western civilization. Topics include the meaning of good and evil, the meaning of right and wrong, free will, and the validity of ethical judgment. (social science)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The student must be working at a job, paid or volunteer, for at least six hours a week in an organizational setting. Through an extensive ongoing journal, the student develops ethical analysis of job-related events and integrates these with ethical theory as taught in PHL 130. Four areas of knowledge will be stressed: ethical self-observation and judgment; assessment of relations between individuals on different status levels of the organizations; how the built-in structures of the organization may aid or hamper self-esteem and/or work performance; and, finally, how truly the organization functions according to its socially mandated goals. Periodic individual conferences will be scheduled with the instructor. Pre- or corequisite: PHL 130
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4.00 Credits
(Also POL 201) 4 hours; 4 credits Analysis of major ideas and concepts of Western political theory from the Greeks to Hobbes. Such questions as the ends of politics, the nature of citizenship, the extent and limits of political obligation, and the relationship between rulers and the ruled will be discussed. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also POL 202) 4 hours; 4 credits The development of modern theories of the state, with emphasis on democracy and theories of representation, the forces underlying political change and revolution, and the growth of "collectivism." Such authors as Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mill, and Marx will be read. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also POL 204) 4 hours; 4 credits A study of the political ideology dominating several periods of American history, including the Puritan, revolutionary, pre-Civil War, populist, and New Deal eras. Analysis of the writing of at least one current theorist and one major legal philosopher. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also AMS 210) 4 hours; 4 credits A study of philosophy in America. Topics of inquiry will be selected from such movements and figures as the following: Puritanism, empiricism, idealism, and pragmatism; Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josiah Royce, Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred North Whitehead. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Major figures and directions in existential philosophy will be studied, including such figures as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and Ricoeur. Existential philosophy will be considered both as a reaction against rationalist and positivist thought and as a new attempt to examine and define human values. The course will pay some attention to related developments in religion and psychology. (social science) Prerequisites: A 100-level course in philosophy or sophomore standing; ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Epistemological and metaphysical presuppositions and problems of major theories (e.g., those of Augustine, Vico, Kant, Marx, Collingwood, Toynbee, and Teihard de Chardin. Prerequisite: A 100-level course in philosophy or sophomore standing
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