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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into ethics and morality as these apply to contemporary issues in health and medicine. Ethical and logical reasoning is emphasized through study of relevant literature, perspective-taking, and discussion and debate. Euthanasia, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, family violence, birth technologies and raising health care costs are some of the issues examined. Offered during the spring semester of even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relevance of philosophy to real life. It probes the problems of knowledge, existence and values, with the purpose of indicating the scope, the method, and the terminology of philosophical thinking. Selected philosophical essays will be read.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course permits advanced study of philosophy. Subject matter will vary. Topics might include the views of a particular philosopher, exploration of political philosophies, or current ethical questions. Prerequisite: PHIL 1300, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
What is right and what is wrong, and how do I decide in this complex and uncertain world? This course is a critical examination of major alternative viewpoints on the ethical life, as formulated in selected writings.
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3.00 Credits
What is valid reasoning, what is sound reasoning, and how will I know these when I encounter them? This course explores classical and contemporary principles and techniques of logic.
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3.00 Credits
A reading course in Christian controversies. The student will read early Church Fathers, as well as medieval, Reformation, and modern theologians. Philosophical critics of Christianity will be studied as well. Stress will be placed on significant moments of change in Christian doctrine, especially the Trinitarian debate (fourth-fifth centuries), the Protestant Reformation (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) and interaction with modernist thought (eighteenth-twentieth centuries). Cross-listed with REL 3350.
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3.00 Credits
One of two courses that explore the intellectual foundation of the modern world (with PHIL 3396). This course explores the development of Western philosophical thought from the beginning of Greek philosophy through the close of the medieval period.
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3.00 Credits
One of two courses that explore the intellectual foundation of the modern world (with Phil 3395). This course tracesWestern philosophy from the close of the medieval period to the present.
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4.00 Credits
An integration of the various disciplines of physical science based on conceptual developments, which lead to an awareness and appreciation of the achievements and problems of contemporary science. Topics include the basic concepts of chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology. Laboratory activities include hands-on experimentation and astronomical observations. Acceptable for non-science majors. Three lecture hours and one 2 1/2 laboratory per week.
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3.00 Credits
Modern medical applications of physics are studied. This course introduces the technologies important to modern medicine and the basic physical principles which underlie them. Topics covered include endoscopes and laparoscopic surgery, laser surgery, photodynamic therapy, ultrasound imaging, x-ray and radionuclide imaging, computed tomography (CT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, radiation therapy, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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