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2.00 Credits
In-depth study of key issues before the Illinois General Assembly. Offered during spring semester. Course Information: Prerequisite: Admission to the PAR Program.
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12.00 Credits
Practical experience in reporting public affairs. Each student is assigned to full-time work with an experienced journalist at the State Capitol. Students receive monthly stipend. Weekly seminar. Course Information: Prerequisite: Admission to PAR program.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of PAR 504, but more intense in conjunction with the windup of the legislative session. Work supervised by media bureau chief and program director. Course Information: Prerequisite: Admission to PAR program.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of the factors affecting the development of public policy at the state level in Illinois. Major topics include constitutional framework, historical influence, demographics, political culture, role of parties, and interest groups, role of the media, legislative process, role of the executive budgetary process.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to some of the basic issues, readings and methods of philosophy. We will cover such topics as right and wrong action, the nature and limits of human knowledge, the relation between mind and body, and the existence of God. Open to all undergraduates. Course Information: This course fulfills a general education requirement at UIS in the area of Humanities (IAI Code: H4 900).
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4.00 Credits
Principles of logical analysis and argumentation, with special attention to common fallacies in informal reasoning, reasoning by analogy, and decision theory. Course Information:
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical inquiry into the history of ideas about the nature, status, and role of animals. Reference will be made to complementary philosophical thinking about God, the nature of consciousness and humankind. Comparative religious and philosophical accounts of the status of animals will be considered.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines social, religious, and philosophical perspectives on animals from pre-Biblical times to the present, especially the ways in which animals have provided essential metaphors for social divisions along lines of tribe, gender, clad, race, and other categories. It will look, for example, at the social and political consequences of developments that have helped redefine relations between people and animals such as the Theory of Evolution and, most recently, the development of artificial intelligence. Course Information: This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the area of ECCE Elective.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of several topics in the philosophy of religion, such as arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, the problem of evil and religious pluralism. Topics examined are from a variety of religious perspectives: eastern and western, non-monotheistic and monotheistic. Primary source readings are used to raise a variety of philosophical issues. Course Information: This course fulfills a general education requirement at UIS in the area of Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace main themes in Continental Philosophy (nihilism, existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and critique of technology). Those themes reflect the human reaction to severe economical, intellectual, religious, and martial crisis which have befallen Europe in the 20th century.
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