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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to moral issues in media, including truth and honesty, privacy, conflicts of interest, economic pressures and social responsibility, civility, offensive content and freedom, treatment of juveniles, stereotypes and racism, and social justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a select set of issues in the philosophical thinking of African American philosophers such as race and racism, separation and assimilation, violence liberation, social justice, and race and gender.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a select set of issues and historical developments in the philosophical thinking of Africans about Africa.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines central issues in moral philosophy from both a historical and contemporary point of view. Topics include virtue and the good of life, ethical judgment, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, rights theory, and justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a selection of contemporary moral issues in the following areas: abortion, euthanasia, suicide, sexual relations, terrorism, affirmative action, genetic engineering, treatment of animals, the environment, and capital punishment.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the development of thinking skills, especially with regard to skills dealing with problems in everyday life. It includes meaning and definition, identification and reconstruction of arguments, evaluations of arguments, identification of fallacies, and writing argumentative papers.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the principles of formal logic, including deductive validity, truth-functional connectives, translation, truth tables, elementary inferences, predicate logic, and traditional syllogistic logic.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of the historical development of philosophy from the roots of philosophy in oral traditions to the Enlightenment. It includes Western traditions as well as philosophy from India, China, Japan, the Near and Middle East, and Africa.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature of metaphysics through the examination of the role of metaphysical assumptions in moral, legal, social, political, religious, and scientific practices. Issues include the existence of God, the reality of value, the nature and persistence of the mind, the nature and identity of persons, the existence of the state and other collective entities, and causation and responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines classical and contemporary views on the nature of law and legal reasoning. Also, it examines issues such as equality and liberty in constitutional law, punishment, excuses, and the nature of crime in criminal law, and causation and liability in tort law.
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