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PHIL 3 Introduction to Logic

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL 68
Analysis of language as an instrument of sound thinking in morals, politics and everyday life. Assists students to analyze an argument, avoid faulty conclusions in reasoning, understand levels of meaning and kinds of arguments, avoid verbal pitfalls, understand the steps of scientific methods and identify value assumptions.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
The analysis of language as an instrument of sound thinking in morals, politics and everyday life. Assists students to analyze an argument, avoid faulty conclusions in reasoning, understand levels of meaning and kinds of arguments, avoid verbal pitfalls, understand the steps of scientific methods and identify value assumptions. An honors course designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 3 and PHIL 3H.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL 68
Issues in ethics, social philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary philosophies of life.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
Issues in ethics, social philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary philosophies of life. An honors course is designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 5 and PHIL 5H.

Effective use of critical thinking in contemporary living, including recognizing faulty arguments, the usefulness of validity and truth, identifying and avoiding common fallacies in thinking.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A
Function and use of formal and informal logic, argument, critical evaluation, and language in written composition.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A and Acceptance into the Honors Program
Function and use of formal and informal logic, argument, critical evaluation, and language in written composition. An honors course is designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 9 and PHIL 9H.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A
Critical analysis of empirical and normative factors involved in choice, including an examination of major ethical theories and their application to the study of moral problems.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
Critical analysis of empirical and normative factors involved in choice, including an examination of major ethical theories and their application to the study of moral problems. An honors course designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 12 and PHIL 12H.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL 68
History, doctrines, and practices of the world's major and enduring religions. Religion is approached as the expression of one's ultimate concern as a means of understanding the historic and ideological foundations and aspirations of the peoples of the world. The following (or more) religions are presented and examined both appreciatively and critically: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam including those of East Asia, India, and the Middle East. Off-campus assignments are required.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
History, doctrines, and practices of the world's major and enduring religions. Religion is approached as the expression of one's ultimate concern as a means of understanding the historic and ideological foundations and aspirations of the peoples of the world. The following (or more) religions are presented and examined both appreciatively and critically: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam including those of East Asia, India, and the Middle East. Off-campus assignments are required. An honors course is designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 15 and PHIL 15H.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A
Major western philosophers and philosophical ideas from pre-Socratic times to medieval times.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
Major philosophers and philosophical ideas from pre-Socratic to medieval times. Emphasis on the development of Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Aristotle and may also include Hellenistic, Roman, Medieval, and non-Western thinkers. An honors course is designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 20A and PHIL 20AH.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A
Major western philosophy and philosophical ideas from the Renaissance to the present.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program
Major philosophers and philosophical ideas from the Renaissance to the present, with an emphasis on Western philosophy. An honors course designed to provide an enriched experience. Students may not receive credit for both PHIL 20B and PHIL 20BH.

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1A, or ENGL C1000H or ENGL 1AH, or AMLA 1A
Offers students recognition for their academic interests in philosophy and the opportunity to explore the discipline of philosophy to greater depth. The content of the course and the methods of study vary from semester to semester and depend on the particular project under consideration.

Prerequisite: Admission to the BS in Histotechnology
Key issues within the closely related fields of medical ethics, bioethics, and biomedical ethics. The course will be structured around some of the major “problem areas” that are widely debated in these fields, including the ethics of medical research; human enhancement; reproduction and reproductive technologies; euthanasia. It will also introduce students to a range of ethical theories and modes of ethical theorizing.