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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An examination of ethical issues surrounding the consumption, production and transportation of food. Issues such as organic food, GMOs, vegetarianism, local and slow food movements, and hunger may be covered. Ethical issues surrounding both local and international food issues are treated.
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3.00 Credits
Many have described global climate change as the defining challenge of the 21st century, noting that unless dramatic changes are made today, future generations will suffer terrible consequences, such as rising seas, wars over fresh water, tens of millions of environmental refugees, and the extinction of species such as the polar bear. This course will investigate the complex technological, historical, economic, scientific, political, and philosophical issues surrounding this issue. Global warming skeptics are especially encouraged to enroll. Spring and Summer.
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3.00 Credits
This course will show how fictional literature can illustrate philosophical insights and how philosophical ideas can help illuminate works of literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for engineering majors. It will introduce them to some of the general ethical concerns facing the profession of engineering, some of the perennial as well as new social challenges facing engineers (e.g., the increasing impact of technology on society), and a number of the landmark cases of ethical concern in the history of engineering. The goal is to instill in the students both a genuine concern for the social/ethical dimension of their profession and work, as well as a set of basic intellectual tools to use when confronted with ethical dilemmas in their career.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the nature of religious experience and practice, and how religious language and belief relate to science, morality and aesthetics. Included is also a study of what is meant by God, divine attributes and proofs for and against Gods existence.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical views about God and our knowledge of God.
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3.00 Credits
This course will address a cluster of fundamental problems of faith and reason--the nature of knowledge, especially in connection with religious claims, evidence for the existence of God, the relevance of recent advances in cosmology to the Christian world view, the problem of evil and suffering, and the challenge of atheism.
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3.00 Credits
The sources, structure, and function of human law and its relations to moral law.
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3.00 Credits
What is literature and what is it for? This course considers a variety of answers to these questions by both philosophers and writers. This course is sometimes organized historically covering major developments in western thought about literature including Platonic, Renaissance, Romantic and Contemporary. Other semesters the course is organized systematically with a heavy emphasis on theories of interpretation, each of which entails a view of the nature of literary language.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of beauty, creativity, and taste according to the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and selected contemporary philosophers. Several representative works from all areas of the fine arts are examined in the light of the aesthetic principles of classical philosophy.
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