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Course Criteria
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7.00 - 8.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of all required courses and standardized exams (Basic Skills and Content Area tests), successful field experiences, and permission of instructor. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of basic problems in philosophy: the nature of reality, the reaches of human knowledge, the quest for identity, the relation of mind and body, freedom and necessity, definitions of truth and various conceptions of the good life.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the techniques of critical thinking with the aim of making logic a tool for reasoning in everyday life and in the student's academic discipline. Emphasis will be on practical exercises in reasoning and in detecting logical fallacies. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to ethical methodology and its practical application to contemporary problems. Current issues to be explored may include pornography, sexual ethics, affirmative action, criminal justice, abortion and the environment.
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3.00 Credits
Explores moral problems that are often raised for people working in criminal justice and social work. The class will begin by examining moral theory and the logical reasoning of moral decision making. Issues to be studied may include due process, race, gender, professional codes of ethics, confidentiality, loyalty, truthtelling, corruption, just use of force, and the role of punishment. Philosophy and Religion 2 Updated 7.3.08
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3.00 Credits
The beginnings of Western philosophy, starting with the pre-Socratics, closely examining the thought of Plato and Aristotle, and then looking at philosophy for the next 1500 years: The Stoics, Epicureans, Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas. This course will examine the foundations for Western beliefs about science, knowledge, virtue, politics, God, and the human soul.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of major 17th and 18th century Western philosophers, especially Descartes, Hume, and Kant. The questions that modern philosophers raised about God, knowledge, science, and morality have defined the way we think in the 21st century; we are still struggling with the issues they raised.
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of the philosophical arguments offered for the existence of God, the occurrence of miracles, the status of religious experience, faith and reason, the relationship between God and morality, the Problem of Evil, the conflicting claims of the world's religions, and the existence of an afterlife.
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3.00 Credits
Offered by Directed Study. RELIGION
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental concepts selected from the areas of physics, astronomy, geology, and chemistry. Laboratory course. Offered every fall. PHYSICS
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