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3.00 Credits
In this course, students are introduced to the basics of the course pedagogy, skills, and competencies. Students explore and share their experiences of those identities that confer or deny privilege and access to resources on several levels: personal, interpersonal, group, and intergroup. A service learning component gives students the chance to practice and enhance their skills and knowledge. Students also receive intensive skills training and advanced-level course work on anti oppression pedagogy in order to prepare them to serve as student peer educators in PEHR 212 Making Connections. Prerequisite: PEHR 212. (Albro, Fall, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students serve as facilitators for PEHR 212 Making Connections. ( Albro, Spring, )
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students serve as co-teachers for PEHR 215 Teaching for Change. ( Albro, Fall, offered annually)
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Wonder about the existence of God, or life after death Argue with friends about right and wrong, and wonder if there's an answer What gives humans free will, and could animals or machines have it Students who are fascinated by these questions have the prerequisites to take this class. There are two sides to every issue, and the heart of critical thinking is understanding both sides. This is the skill students in this course hone. Students do this by reading classic and contemporary dialogues that represent both sides of these issues. Readings are short, focusing on depth and complexity. Course work consists mostly of very short essays that will be revised. There is a strong emphasis on precise writing and critical argumentation. (Barnes, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve a person's ability to think critically. While any course in philosophy does this, this course explicitly examines the principles of good reasoning. Emphasis is placed on the evaluation, the understanding, and the formulation of arguments. Instruction is given in the detection and correction of fallacies of reasoning and in the writing of argumentative essays. (Offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
Effective oral communication is essential for success in life. This course introduces students to the theory and practice of oral argumentation and debate. Students read classic and contemporary texts on rhetoric to understand the basis of effective speaking in the face of an opposing viewpoint. Students come to understand the basic structures and tools of argument construction and deconstruction. There is some written work, but most graded work is in the form of oral debates, including required competition in two intercollegiate weekend (usually Friday to Saturday) debate tournaments. Lab fee: ($100 or less, depending on expenses); permission of instructor is required (first-years accepted). Crosslisted as WRRH 125.
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3.00 Credits
The fundamental question addressed in this course is: To what extent is it morally justifiable to limit a person's liberty The two topics in connection with which this question is considered are pornography and hate speech. Both of these topics concern contents of expression that some people think are justifiably restrained. Others think that however abhorrent the contents of expression in those areas may be, freedom of expression should be abridged in very limited kinds of cases, and that the topics in question do not fall within that limited class. This course attempts to reach an understanding of the concerns that underlie both positions, the arguments that may be presented for and against both positions, and how to evaluate those arguments in order to reach a judgment that can be shown to be satisfactory. (Staff, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
Values are embodied in our interpretations, in personal and collective perspectival stances we take on issues of everyday life. They become manifest in actions and words, when we state our opinion on, say, U.S. foreign policy, the role of parenting, the role of women in religion, the value of higher education etc. Values are generally acted out, most of them unconsciously. But some of them can be raised into our awareness and can be talked and written about. Although this process of consciousness-raising is not without its problems, this is precisely what this course tries to undertake. This course is an occasion for students to examine their personal beliefs surrounding the meaning or lack of meaning they encounter in major issues around the globe, both past and contemporary. Students begin by studying and writing about values in the form of aphorisms, anecdotes, short paragraphs. Then they aim at larger texts such as parables, fables, myths, manifestos, poems, and entire books. Students have as their main project to arrive at an overall narrative embodying some of their values. All writing in the course is oriented toward that final project. (Baer, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course treats two topics that are of current social concern: the moral permissibility of abortion and the justification of affirmative action. Students learn how to apply the tools of philosophical analysis in attempting to resolve these issues. (Daise, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between moral responsibility and criminal responsibility. It looks at some perennial problems in ethical theory, such as: What makes an act wrong When is a person morally responsible for their actions When is punishment an appropriate response to behavior that violates social norms It also looks at some problems in legal theory and in public policy, such as: What sorts of acts ought to be criminal When is a person legally responsible for her actions Why should insanity be a defense to criminal charges The following general question links all these problems: Which forms of behavior control are morally justifiable responses to which forms of social deviance (Brophy, offered annually)
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