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3 Credits The science of the ocean is introduced from several perspectives: chemical, biological, physical, and geological. Other topics include ocean exploration and marine policy, as well as the food, mineral, and energy resources of the sea. Field trips are required.
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3 Credits This course introduces students to several of the major issues of philosophical enquiry, including metaphysics (What is reality?), epistemology (What is knowledge?), ethics (What is good or just?), and aesthetics (What is beautiful?). Through reading selected works of key philosophers and through investigating differing philosophical traditions, students will learn to question basic assumptions and develop philosophical arguments.
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3 Credits Ethics is concerned with principles and concepts which determine what actions are right and what ends are good in many contexts: social, political, medical, legal, artistic, military, religious, commercial, personal, marital. Principles provided by various religious, political, and social systems will be explored, as well as systems such as situational ethics and existentialist ethics. Students will examine major ethical theories and compare the views of various ethical philosophers as applied to varying contemporary contexts.
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3 Credits An introduction to philosophical thinlung through consideration of problems at the interface of medicine and ethics. Students will use existing ethical theories to explore the philosophical dimensions of issues such as professional ethics, patient rights, informed consent, communicable/ notifiable diseases, narcotics, abortion, sterilization, euthanasia, and life sustaining technology. Ethical issues will be explored within the context of current laws and cases which structure medical practice. Prerequisite: Satisfactory placement on the reading section of the Basic Skills Assessment or completion of ENG* 073
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3 Credits An introduction to philosophical thinlung through consideration of problems at the interface of science and ethics. Students will explore the biological and philosophical dimensions of ethical controversies surrounding such issues as abortion, euthanasia, pharmaceutical development, pre-natal testing, recombinant DNA research, the creation of life, and problems which arise from living in a world with scarce resources.
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3 Credits This course is a case-based introduction to philosophical thinking through consideration of problems at the interface of business and ethics. Students will examine philosophical principles as applied to issues within the world of business from diverse cultural, religious, and political perspectives. Students will explore and analyze the arguments of leading moral thinkers and apply these to classics and contemporary cases in business ethics. In addition, they will craft, articulate and defend their own arguments concerning contemporary topics in business, such as whistleblowers, globalization, product liability, corporate responsibility, labor practices and others.
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3 Credits Students will use existing ethical and legal dilemmas faced by professionals working in computer-related fields; study the impact of the technologies on society; and consider emerging technologies and their import for self and society.
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In this course, students will examine the view of contemporary philosophers on abortion, affirmative action, gender roles, and sexism. This course will examine the writings of feminist philosophers who 3 Credits have examined issues of preferential stereotyping, among others. The course treatment, exploitation and gender role will use philosophical analyses to examine questions of ethics from a gendered perspective.
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logic. Students learn the propositional calculus but focus on quantification theory. The basic principles of valid reasoning, including practice in the application of various techniques of mathematical systems and other formal systems are structured, and they learn strategies for analyzing problems. analysis, is reviewed. Students learn how
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3 Credits This course is a philosophical introduction to the study of Existentialism, a twentieth century movement in philosophy, art, literature and politics. Students will explore basic questions of human existence along with many of the movements, great thinkers, comics, scientists, artists, filmmakers and writers.
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