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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC This course systematically introduces and analyzes the intellectual and religious histories of India, China, and Japan. Primary focus will be on the ways in which Eastern traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen conceive of the cosmos, meaningful human existence and life's ultimate goals. Jainism, Sikhism, and Shinto may also be covered. While the main emphasis will be on basic teachings, this course will also investigate religious practices, cultural settings, social impact, and the historical contexts in which these religions arose. Rituals and religious literature may be used to compare and contrast Asian and Occidental belief systems. A field trip may be required by the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC This course is an introduction to Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as the religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Canna, and Egypt. The history, beliefs, rituals, literature, and art of each religion will be examined with a goal to discovering its conception of God, man, the cosmos, meaningful human existence, and life's ultimate goals. Skills in objective, scholarly analysis of the scripture of each religion will be developed. Religious trends in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and contemporary secular and religious humanism will also be discussed. A field trip may be required by the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. CSU This course critically examines the issue of life after death. It explores this issue from both conceptual and empirical perspectives. It discusses three views regarding life after death and the arguments advanced for them: disembodied survival, reincarnation, and bodily resurrection. It also examines the annihilationalist arguments raised by skeptics against these views about survival.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC, CAN PHIL 4 Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100 C. This course is an introduction to metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Fundamental ethical concepts, theories, and arguments in classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary ethical thought are presented, analyzed, and critically evaluated.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. Pass/No Pass/Letter Grade Option UC/CSU, CSU GE This course examines the major ethical issues that arise in contemporary business practices, e.g., preferential treatment for underrepresented groups, responsibility to the environment, codes of conduct for professional persons, sexual harassment, and the morality of strikes by public service personnel. The course considers leading normative ethical theories and the ways they have been applied by ethicists to provide solutions to the ethical problems that arise in business. It also emphasizes the development of logical skills necessary for critically evaluating arguments that have been given for and against the solutions proposed to ethical problems that arise in business.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC (pending), CAN PHIL 6 Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100 C. This course focuses on elements of clear, straight, orderly and valid thought, including deductive and inductive reasoning and the accurate use of language. This course explores practical applications of logic.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC Prerequisite: ENGL 100 C with a grade of "C" or better . This courseis an introduction to the techniques of argument analysis, evaluation, and construction as applied to essay writing. The course includes such topics as standard form and argument patterns; deduction, validity, and soundness; truth-functional arguments, truth-tables, and natural deduction; quantificational arguments; categorical syllogisms and Venn Diagrams; truth; induction, strength, and cogency; sampling arguments, causal arguments, statistical syllogisms, analogical arguments, and explanatory arguments; the probability calculus; formal and informal fallacies; and definition, language, and meaning; thesis statements, the writing of coherent, well-developed essays, and grammar, punctuation, and othrography.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, CSU GE This is a course in elementary, truth-functional, propositional logic and first-order quantificational predicate logic, up through identity and definite descriptions. The course covers the techniques for the translation of English statements and arguments into formal logical languages and the methods for determining whether these arguments are valid.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU This course is designed for students who want to understand the structure of science, its methodology, and how it differs from pseudo-science. Emphasis is on the use of critical thinking methods as used in science which includes the ability to distinguish fact from judgment, belief from knowledge, skills used in elementary inductive and deductive processes along with an understanding of the formal and informal fallacies of language and thought. Eligibility for ENGL 100 C recommended; a course in science recommended, but not required.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. UC/CSU, AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC, CAN PHIL 8 Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100 C. This historical introduction to philosophy traces the development of Western philosophy from the early Greeks through the Medieval Period, emphasizing those ideas which have most influenced the development of Western culture. This course will explore the birth of rational thought with the Pre-Socratics, such as Anaximander, Heraclitus, the Pythagoreans, Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Greek atomists, then move to Athens with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and continue with philosophers from the late Classical and Medieval periods such as the Stoics, the Skeptics, Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. This course surveys the development and transformation of Greek and Hellenistic metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics within the context of later philosophical theology. Emphasis will be placed on viewing these periods from the historical and cultural setting of the texts, which is relevant to many of the significant religious and philosophical issues facing us now, including the perennial search for values.
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