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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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PHIL 220 - Environmental Ethics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An examination of humanity’s place in the natural world and its implications for ethics. Topics include the environmental crisis and the need for a new environmental ethic, the ethical dimensions of environmental policy issues, human-centered ethics, obligations to future generations, the intrinsic value of the natural world, animal rights, wilderness, and preservation of species.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 222 - Moral Issues in Medicine
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Concepts of health, illness and healing, under different paradigms of medicine. Is medicine an art or science? What is the impact of medical technology on human life and death? What is considered “natural”? Attention is given to issues in human reproduction (e.g. in vitro fertilization, conception, abortion). Questions of authority, accountability in doctor-patient relationships, patient advocacy, self help, right to health care or to refuse treatment. Social and political questions of health care organization.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 224 - The Philosophy of Art
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Late twentieth-century art has insistently challenged us to come to terms with our understanding of the very nature of the art work. This course is a survey of the major theories of the nature of art, with special emphasis on the views that art is a matter of representing or imitating reality, that art is a form of catharsis, that art is a matter of the expression of emotion, that art is a special kind of symbolic form. It also addresses such questions as the role of art history in a theory of aesthetic interpretation, the problem of forgery, the issue of artistic responsibility and the recent debates over censorship of the arts.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 225 - The Philosophy of Religion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An application of imagination and reasoning in order to appraise the strengths or weaknesses of famous arguments concerning the relation of faith to reason and the existence or non-existence of a western type of God, in view of natural evil and of the rise of science. Discussion of the significance of reports of miracles and of mystical and religious experiences.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 230 - Philosophy and Feminism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Different philosophical theories of feminist issues, including women’s rights, whether women have a separate or special place in the family and social order, gender differences and biological factors in human nature, theories of patriarchy, how gender and world view are related. Readings from classical and contemporary philosophers and feminist thinkers. Note: At least one course in philosophy and one course in women’s studies are recommended, though not required.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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PHIL 255 - The Mystery of Consciousness
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Consciousness has been described as the last great mystery. In this course students will read philosophers who attempt to clarify why it seems so mysterious, including some who argue that it will never be possible to explain consciousness scientifically. On the positive side, student swill consider philosophical approaches to understanding consciousness in terms of mental representations and will examine how cognitive science has re-conceptualized the role of consciousness in our brains. The course will also look at several interesting scientific discoveries and consciousness and discuss their philosophical significance.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 264 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an exploration of the works of such major thinkers of the nineteenth century as: Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
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PHIL 281 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A sophomore level course offering selected topics in philosophy. Course content varies and will be announced prior to registration.
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PHIL 286 - What is Freedom?
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Freedom is arguable the central value of modern Western societies. but what is freedom? This course tries to answer this question by approaching the concept of freedom from three distinct points of view, metaphysical, moral-psychological, and political. The course first takes up the questions of free will, of whether or not subjects are genuinely free to choose between different courses of action. The course then investigates the relationship between freedom and moral responsibility. Lastly, the course asks about the meaning of political freedom. Is political freedom secured by the having of certain fundamental rights, or does it also require that one live in a democratic society.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 287 - Equality
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Examination of the ideals of social equality and equal respect in the context of actual inequalities of gender, race, and sexual orientation. Topics are drawn from the following: The nature of equality; racism and racial inequality; justice and the division of labor in the family; sex roles; affirmative action; sexual harassment; sexual orientation and the family; sameness, difference, and equality.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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PHIL 290 - The Philosophy of Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores fundamental questions concerning the nature of law and the relation between law and justice. It examines questions concerning the source of the obligation to obey law, the limits of the obligation to law, and the moral conditions that make law possible. This exploration leads to an examination such of different judicial philosophies of constitutional interpretation as original intent, judicial restraint, and judicial activism. The course continues with a study of some perplexing questions about the meaning of equality and justice as they arise in legal cases dealing with race and/or gender. Some offerings of this course conclude with an exploration of the moral basis of international law by way of a critical analysis of the Nuremberg Trial.
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PHIL 297 - Asian Philosophy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to some of the principal philosophical traditions of India and China. It examines the belief- systems of Hinduism and Buddhism in both India and China, as well as Taoism. Participants also explore in somewhat more detail the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta in the work of Sankara, and the Madhyamika Buddhism of Nagarjuna. Traditional topics to be addressed include metaphysics, the theory of self (or not-self), relations of world and mind, the status of God (or the lack thereof), the situation of women in these religions, the goal of philosophy, and others. Comparisons among these traditions and with Western thought are attempted and encouraged, but no prior knowledge of specific traditions is assumed.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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PHIL 299 - Public Health Ethics
Formerly PHIL 321
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Public health refers to society’s organized measures to improve population health. Some public health measures are quite intrusive. For example, seatbelt laws or restrictions on the sale of large scale sodas. Some think that these measures are unjustified because it should be up to the individual to choose how to lead his or her life. By examining the initiatives and laws designed to reduce tobacco use, we will examine how a government’s obligation to respect individual freedom should be weighed against an obligation to prevent disease and improve population health. Other public health measures seem woefully inadequate given the inequalities that affect disadvantaged groups in society. For example, risk factors for obesity are not simply linked to personal choice, but to food security and access to healthy foods. By examining the data on health disparities and social determinants of health, we will explore how far a government’s obligations should extend to narrow inequalities that put certain groups at increased risk of disease and poor health outcomes.
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PHIL 305 - Action
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It is said that life is a string of choices - and this course will look at some of the philosophical and psychological issues of how and why we choose our actions. There is a place of cookies in front of someone - they take one. Perhaps another signed up for the army, or did not go to a friend’s housewarming party. The question of this class is why we act the way we do. What plays a role in actions such as those just mentioned and the endless other choices that we perform everyday? Could we have done differently? Is there such a thing as “free will” and if so what is it? Is the process of choice different for different kinds of actions? What are the characteristics of goal-directed or intentional action? How and to what extent are our actions shaped by action affordances - i.e. possibilities that we sense in our environment? How are actions shaped by rational thinking, by past experience, by social structures, or by moral obligation? The course will touch on all these factors of influence and introduce different ways of theorizing the very nature of choices, actions and agency. The readings for the course will be both historical and contemporary and be rooted in philosophy of mind but will draw on interdisciplinary sources such as theories and empirical findings from neuroscience, developmental psychology, sociology and behavioral economics. Further as questions of action are always also questions of value, issues of moral responsibility and politics will repeatedly be taken up as well.
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Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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PHIL 311 - Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, Christian
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course we will read one or two major medieval Christian philosophers (e.g., Augustine and Aquinas), one or two major medieval Muslim philosophers (e.g. al-Ghazali and ibn Rushd [Averroes]) and one or two major medieval Jewish philosophers (e.g., Saadia and Maimonides). We will focus on some or all of the following themes: God’s existence, God’s nature, God’s justice, the creation of the universe, the priority of reason versus faith, the literal versus metaphorical nature of religious language, and the soul’s immortality.
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PHIL 318 - Race and Racism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the genesis of the idea of “race” as a way of viewing human differences from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It also explores conceptions of “racism” in relation to such contemporary phenomena as white privilege, “institutional racism,” race and crime, race and intelligence, affirmative action, racial hostility among non-“white” groups, “internalized racism,” race and class, and anti-immigrant hostility. Finally, the course looks at the notion of “mixed race” persons, their place in the hierarchy of racism and their role in challenging the concept of “race” itself. Though the course focuses primarily on whites and African Americans, racism as it bears on Native Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos is also considered.
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Diversity Area: United States
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PHIL 327 - Meaning and Being
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Exploration of themes in recent European philosophy, such as the self and the social world, anti-Cartesianism, subjectivity, language, and embodiment. Special attention to the life-world, being-in-the-world, and forms of life. Readings from such philosophers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein. The course is an appropriate sequel to PHIL 264 or PHIL 227.
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PHIL 333 - Ethical Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of some of the major contemporary approaches to issues of right and wrong, good and bad, and good character: utilitarianism, deontology, the ethics of care, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, and issues of current importance in ethics-relativism, moral excellence, gender differences in morality. A systematic rather than historical approach. (Course offered about every two years.)
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One PHIL course
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PHIL 340 - Speech Acts
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Speech Act Theory, pioneered by 20th century philosopher including Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice, and Searle, looks at ordinary language in terms of action, treats meaning as a matter of use, and emphasizes the power of language to shape social and material reality. Issues include how individual intentions shape meaning, how social conventions crate, shape, limit, or enhance individual meaning, the question of authority–its grounding and its scope, and more.
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PHIL 344 - The Philosophy of Mind
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The nature of mind and its relation to body and matter, with emphasis on recent advances in philosophy and psychology.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 345 - Theory of Knowledge
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Knowledge-its nature, forms, methods, scope, and validation. What are the relations of knowledge and justification to sense experience? For example, does knowledge of our surroundings rest upon a foundation of sense experience? Is knowledge of the so-called “truths of reason” in some way independent of evidence provided by sense experience? How is a body of knowledge related to an individual knower? Does the justification of one’s beliefs depend upon what psychology reveals about the reliability of methods for acquiring the beliefs? Readings from contemporary sources.
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PHIL 346 - The Philosophy of Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The nature of scientific explanation, with attention to the social and philosophical aspects of scientific methodology.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 347 - Problems of Metaphysics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Ideas such as substance, causality, mind and body, and free will, as they appear in several major metaphysical systems.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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PHIL 348 - The Self
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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What is it with which we identify ourselves? We will critically examine, discuss, and write about different viewpoints concerning what we think we know most intimately - the self.
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PHIL 351 - Plato
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Plato’s ethics, metaphysics, and theory of knowledge in the Phaedo, Republic, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, and Philebus, as a solution to problems raised by his predecessors, notably the Pythagoreans, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the Sophists.
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PHIL 360 - American Pragmatism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is a survey of American Pragmatism. In it we will examine the three central figures of the pragmatic traditions: Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. While Pragmatism is the most important philosophical movement produced by the United States, it also has a global philosophical significance owing to the fact that it was the first movement to decisively break with certain key assumptions governing Modern philosophy. Specifically, it broke with the rationalist notions that cognition could be examined in abstraction from action and that truth could be defined independently of human inquiry. The goal of this course-besides coming to an in-depth understanding of each of the major pragmatic figures-is to understand how Pragmatism challenges these assumptions while also providing us with a new picture of cognition, knowledge, truth, inquiry, communication, action, and freedom. At the end of the course we shall see how Pragmatism was applied to concrete social problems and issues by looking at the work of Jane Adams and Alain Locke.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or PHIL 108
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PHIL 376 - Consent
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Consent plays an important role in our lives. It gives us the moral and legal power to transform our relationships with others: by requiring that we give valid consent to certain acts, we’re protected from unwanted interference, while the ability to grant it allows us to transform what might otherwise be a crime into a benefit. While most philosophers agree about the value and power of consent, they disagree about the conditions necessary for valid consent, the ways in which consent can be vitiated, and the content of policies, regulations, and laws designed to govern it. The primary purpose of this course is to provide an advanced survey of this disagreement, with a special focus on consent to medical procedures and to sexual relations. This course offers opportunities for collaborative, civic engagement, and a major assignment in this course may be included in a Writing Proficiency Requirement portfolio. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
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Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or PHIL 108 or PHIL 130G or PHIL 207G or PHIL 222 or PHIL 286
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PHIL 377 - Autonomy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Individual autonomy, or the capacity for self-governance, plays an important role in our lives. When we possess this capacity, we can live a life in accordance with our own values and preferences, and we have the power to demand a distinctive kind of respect from others, namely that they not interfere with our life choices. However, while most philosophers agree about the value and power of autonomy, they disagree about the conditions for self-governance. The purpose of this course is to provide an advanced survey of this disagreement. Some philosophers argue that autonomy is a non-social concept: the capacity for self-governance is simply a matter of possessing certain competencies, or attaining a particular kind of psychic unity, or a responsiveness to reasons. Others argue that autonomy is inherently social: the capacity for self-governance requires dialogue with others, or recognition from others, or the ability to resist being subject to a foreign will. This course relates these differing conceptions to issues of whether and how manipulation, dementia, addiction, procrastination, identity, socialization, oppression, and love can undermine one’s capacity for self-governance.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 100 PHIL or 108 or 130G or 207G or 222 or 286
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PHIL 379 - Reality and Illusion, East and West
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It is ordinary believed, either consciously or subconsciously, that “reality” is being experienced and known by way of perceptions of things under optimal conditions. What is this reality believed to be like (say, causally governed? Dualistic? Independent?)? Are those characteristics immediately present in perceptions? Is it the only reality that there is? In this course, these questions will be explored and investigated through close examinations of philosophical works from both East (e.g., Buddhist and Daoist writings) and West (e.g., Plato, Hume, Schopenhauer).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or PHIL 108
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PHIL 380 - Social & Political Philosophy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Representative problems and themes of social and political philosophy, especially the concepts of human rights, liberty, justice, equality, law, social obligation and the social contract. These topics are explored through the work of classical and contemporary political and social philosophers.
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Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One or preferably two PHIL courses
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PHIL 381 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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PHIL 395 - International Ethics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines moral and political arguments concerning government and individual actions in the area of foreign policy, international relations, and global economic policy. Questions considered include: When, if ever, is war or intervention justified? Does justice require redistribution of wealth around the globe? Do universal human rights exist? Can they be enforced?
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PHIL 397 - Marxist Philosophy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A philosophical exploration of the thought of Karl Marx, based on a reading of his early and mature works. Topics discussed are idealism and materialism; the relation between theory and practice; dialectic; alienation; ideology; class; the analysis of capitalism; reification; and some contemporary theories, including critical theory and socialist feminism. Other theorists read include Lenin, Engels, Mao Tse Tung, Lukacs, Braverman, EP Thompson, Marcuse, and Gorz.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHIL 100
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PHIL 414 - Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course deals with some major trends in analytical philosophy in the twentieth century. It examines such movements as logical atomism, logical positivism, ordinary language philosophy, contemporary pragmatism, and irrealism, in order to explore their emphasis on the role of language in the formulations of solutions to traditional problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. The course also explores current debates over relativism. Readings include the work of such philosophers as Russell, Carnap, Ayer, Austin, James, Quine, Goodman, Putnam, and others. Some knowledge of logic is desirable.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHIL 120
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PHIL 418 - The Ideas of Constitutional Democracy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on philosophical questions raised by the remarkable contemporary diffusion of constitutional democracy. What is the proper conception of “constitutionalism”? Of “democracy”? Of their surprising combination in “constitutional democracy”? What institutions, legal structures, political arrangements and practices are required for, conducive towards, or antithetical to constitutional democracy? And, what method or methods should we adopt in approaching these vast and various questions?
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 300-level or higher PHIL course
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PHIL 430 - Literary Theory and Critical Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course presents contemporary literary theory in connection with related developments in contemporary philosophy of language. Philosophy of language asks: What is it for a set of signs or symbols to have meaning? How is meaning, in general, possible, and how is it that a particular set of signs can have a particular meaning? What is a language? What is the relation between the sign and the signifier, the word and the object? What is the relation between writing, speech, and being? Literary theory and critical theory ask: What is a literary text? What is a genre and why do we distinguish them? What is an author? What is interpretation? Is paraphrase (saying the same thing two different ways) really possible? What is the role of the critic? How do the norms governing interpretation help to shape the “reality” that is interpreted? Readings range from ordinary language philosophy (e.g., Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle) to structuralism to new criticism to reader-response theory, deconstruction, and post-structuralism.
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PHIL 440 - Philosophy of Language
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines 20th century analytic approaches to understanding the role of language in understanding mind, self, and world. Questions about the interplay between semantics and pragmatics will be addressed throughout the course, while focusing on questions about meaning, reference, truth, and the varieties of actions we accomplish through what we say. Topics include Russell’s theory of descriptions and its critics, speech acts, and inferentialism.
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PHIL 450 - Rights
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines a range of contemporary theories, including those of Rawls, Nozick, Feinberg, and Dworkin. It outlines the classical tradition, and introduces the work of legal positivists like Austin and Hart. Emphasis is placed on alternatives to rights based theories and on criticisms of rights systems, such as that put forward by contemporary communitarians, virtue theorists, and feminist theorists.
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PHIL 452 - Aristotle
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Aristotle’s philosophy as a response to Plato’s views about meaning, being, knowledge, ideas, number and the good.
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PHIL 455 - Hegel and German Idealism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to the philosophy of Hegel and to the Hegelian tradition, through a reading of Hegel’s major work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. Other readings for the course include excerpts of The Science of Logic and The Philosophy of Right, as well as important critical sources.
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PHIL 462 - The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Critique of Pure Reason, with special attention to Kant’s epistemology and critique of metaphysics.
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PHIL 478 - Independent Study I
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Independent study on approved topics in philosophy.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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PHIL 479 - Independent Study II
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
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PHILLAW 210 - Legislative Labyrinth
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Legislatve Labyrinth
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PHILLAW 260 - Latina/nos and the Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction for students to understand how legal institutions and systems in the United States have impacted the Latina/nos community. This is essentially a U.S. history course teaching to and about subject matters often neglected in K-12 education. Beginning with an examination of Columbus and his impact to the Americas the course examines the initial creation of the system of oppression against the Latina/nos community. Through a variety of methods of learning including mock trial, small group work, individual critical reading of articles/book chapters/case law/statutes, and critical class viewing and debriefing of video presentation - students will get a better understanding of the U.S. and the core principles that built this country and the backs on whom this country was built upon. After a review of the past, the course will offer an examination of contemporary issues involving how Latina/nos have or have not been able to fully participate in life in the U.S. due to discriminatory laws and policies. It will then explore issues pertaining to voting rights, immigration reform, educational rights, privacy/reproductive rights. English Only laws, ethnic studies ban, right to participate in the jury process, and a host of other legal issues as revealed through case studies.
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PHILLAW 300 - Basic Legal Rsng&Rsr
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Basic Legal Rsng&Rsr
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PHYSIC 101 - Introduction to Physics
1 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The purpose of this class is to introduce incoming students to the Physics major. We will cover the requirements for the major and why they exist. In addition we will introduce computational tools that will enhance student’s ability to work effectively in their classes. A major goal of this class is to teach students the steps in solving Physics problems. We will also explore the connections and differences between Math and Physics.
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PHYSIC 107 - College Physics I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Non-calculus introductory physics for life-science students and others with a program requirement for a year of physics at this level. Topics include mechanics, fluids, wave motion, kinetic theory of gases, temperature and heat. Students who need or want laboratory work in physics should enroll concurrently in PHYSIC 171 . Note: Students may not receive credit for both PHYSIC 107-108 and 113 -114 .
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 130 or higher or equivalent placement or permission of instructor
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PHYSIC 113 - Fundamentals of Physics I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The first semester of calculus-level introductory physics. Topics include mechanics, fluids, waves, kinetic theory, and heat. Students who need or want laboratory work in physics should enroll concurrently in PHYSIC 181 . Note: Students may not receive credit for both PHYSIC 107 -108 and 113-114 .
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: MATH 140 and for physics majors PHYSIC 181
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PHYSIC 121 - Introduction to Astronomy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Descriptive introduction to astronomy and astrophysics. Topics include introductory material on light, telescopes, and spectroscopy; properties of stars and stellar evolution, including the formation of stars, stellar energy cycles, red giants, white dwarfs, supernovae, neutron stars, and black holes; galactic structure; the expansion of the universe; cosmology; the past and future of the universe.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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PHYSIC 126 - Solar System Astronomy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Descriptive introduction to the study of the solar system and its structure. Topics include the historical development of early astronomy; the properties of the sun; the planets and their satellites; comets, asteroids, and meteorites; the results of spacecraft exploration.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 114QR or higher or equivalent placement score or permission of instuctor
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PHYSIC 134 - Energy for the Future
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The current means of providing energy for our society are not sustainable. The need for secure, alternative and clean sources of power is increasingly apparent. This course, intended for a general audience, provides an overview of the energy problem. It covers the ways we currently obtain and use power and considers the scientific and technological issues involved in emerging technologies.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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PHYSIC 147 - Quantum Information I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a one semester course targeted at students who have passed pre-calculus that introduces them to the basic ideas and mathematics of Quantum Mechanics. This course will cover the fundamentals of quantum physics; its phenomenological, theoretical and experimental basis. The course is aimed at conveying working knowledge of the principle of quantum mechanics, targeted towards the understanding of quantum information processing and quantum computation. This course is not calculus based and it requires only pre-calculus. Quantum mechanics will be taught using only linear algebra, which will be taught alongside with the physics.
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PHYSIC 171 - Introductory Physics Lab for Life Sciences I
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A lab course, designed to be paired with the first semester Introductory Physics lecture course with a syllabus targeted towards students in the life sciences.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: PHYSIC 107 or 113
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PHYSIC 181 - Physics Laboratory I
2 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Exploration of basic physical phenomena through laboratory work. Experiments in kinematics, mechanics and hydrostatics. This course is designed to accompany either level of introductory physics.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: PHYSIC 107 or PHYSIC 113
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PHYSIC 197 - Special Topics in Physics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 100 level special topics theory class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 198 - Special Topics Laboratory
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 100 level special topics lab class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 211 - Introduction to Contemporary Physics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The third semester of calculus-level introductory physics. Topics include special relativity; the historical development of quantum theory; elements of quantum mechanics; with applications to atomic, molecular, solid state, nuclear and particle physics. Students who need or want laboratory work in modern physics should enroll concurrently in PHYSIC 281 .
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 114 or permission of instructor
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PHYSIC 297 - Special Topics in Physics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 200 level special topics theory class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 298 - Special Topics Laboratory
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 200 level special topics lab class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 331 - Optics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introductory treatment of the physics of light. Topics include geometrical optics, interference and diffraction of light, electromagnetic wave theory, polarization, propagation of light in dispersive media and crystals, optical instruments, holography, lasers.
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PHYSIC 350 - Statistical Physics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Topics in heat, thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and elementary statistical mechanics.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 312 or permission of instructor
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PHYSIC 382 - Intermediate Laboratory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Experiments in geometrical and physical optics, electronics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Individual program of experiments for each student according to his or her interests and previous experience.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 281 or permission of instructor
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PHYSIC 397 - Special Topics in Physics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 300 level special topics theory class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 398 - Special Topics Laboratory
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 300 level special topics lab class in Physics.Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 421 - Atomic Physics and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The fundamental and elementary applications of quantum mechanics with emphasis on physical content rather than formalism. Elementary wave mechanics developed and applied to simple atomic structure. Topics include spectroscopic and other phenomena which form the experimental basis of modern atomic physics, the role of the Pauli principle and spin in determining periodic atomic properties, and radiation phenomena.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 321 or permission of instructor
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PHYSIC 422 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A continuation of PHYSIC 421 . The basic properties of nuclei, particle scattering, radioactivity, nuclear stability, dynamics of nuclear reactions, potential well and barrier problems in quantum mechanics, and particles.
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PHYSIC 479 - Readings in Physics I
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Supervised individual study of special topics in physics that are not available in regular courses.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and approval of plan of study by supervising instructor and department chair
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PHYSIC 480 - Readings in Physics II
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Supervised individual study of special topics in physics that are not available in regular courses.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and approval of plan of study by supervising instructor and department chair
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PHYSIC 487 - Research in Physics I
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Supervised research.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and approval of plan of study by supervising instructor and department chair
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PHYSIC 488 - Research Physics II
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Supervised research.
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PHYSIC 497 - Special Topics in Physics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 400 level special topics theory class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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PHYSIC 498 - Special Topics Laboratory
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This is a 400 level special topics lab class in Physics. Course content and credits vary according to topic and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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POLSCI 101 - Introduction to Politics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces and explores the conceptual vocabulary of politics. Though concerned with problems of political theory, it is designed not for theorists but for anyone who thinks, talks, or worries about the public world. A series of brief case studies is used to show how real-world outcomes are affected by our political ideas and assumptions.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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POLSCI 102 - Government and Politics of the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the structures, processes, and results of the American governmental system. The course focuses on the national government and national political behavior, although state, regional, and local structures and issues are also introduced. Topics include institutions of government, political principles and ideologies, public opinion, political socialization, political parties, mass media, elections, interest groups, civil rights and civil liberties, public policies and policy making.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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POLSCI 103 - Introduction to Political Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course consists of close readings of three texts considered foundational to the history of Western political thought: Plato’s Republic, Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto. It will examine the characteristic questions and problems raised by these texts concerning the nature of politics and justice, and examine what roles moral and epistemological knowledge might play with regard to both. Also considered will be questions of genre, history, and rhetoric, with special attention given to questions regarding authorial intent, readership, and audience.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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POLSCI 201 - Comparative Politics of Industrialized Societies (C)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Introductory survey of political systems in the industrialized world, including the United States, Europe, and Japan.
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POLSCI 202 - Comparative Politics
Formerly Comparative Politics of Third World Countries
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course serves as an introductory course to comparative politics. Students will learn the core concepts and methods in comparative politics including the comparative methods, states and regimes, regime types and democratic transitions through studying both developing and developed countries such as China, India, Russia, Mexico, Germany and United Kingdom. The second part of the course focuses on political institutions. Students will learn the different forms of democracies and autocracies by examining the institutions and political processes. The course seeks to understand the mechanisms through which the political institutions and processes affect citizens, behaviors and political outcomes while comparing developing and developed countries. The third part of the course discusses political issues and policy outcomes including challenges to democracies, women and politics, social cleavages, and inequality and redistribution. Throughout the course, students will develop informed and coherent arguments on relevant topics through discussions, debates, simulation games, and research.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
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POLSCI 203 - Public Policy (A)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The process of policy making and the manner and effects of policy implementation in states and localities.
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POLSCI 220 - International Relations (B)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on basic patterns and concepts which explain interactions among nations. Special attention is given to the role of ideologies, international organizations, conflict resolution, the impact of multinational corporations, underdevelopment, the international dimension of human rights, ethnic, “racial,” religious, and gender differences, and the dynamics of globalization.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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POLSCI 251 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought (D)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The origins and the early development of the main political ideas of the West. (Course offered in the fall only.)
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POLSCI 252 - Modern Political Thought (D)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The history of Western political ideas from the time of Machiavelli to that of Marx and Nietzsche.
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POLSCI 265L - World War II Internment of Japanese Americans (A)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The US Government in 1942 commenced the internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. This course considers political, economic, legal, sociological and historical matters in the examination of this chapter in American life. The course encompasses experiences beyond the internment, including early Japanese immigration, the battle for redress and reparations, and the current status of Japanese and Asian Americans. ASAMST 265L and POLSCI 265L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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POLSCI 307 - Political Change and Group Identity (C)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course is concerned with the impact of group identity-racial, religious, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, national-on political systems.
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POLSCI 310 - Money in Politics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the role of money in American politics and the various ways in which political actors participate in the financing of campaigns. The course will examine the development of the modern campaign finance system by reviewing the major constitutional, statutory, and regulatory decisions that form the framework of the system. The course will pay particular attention to “dark money” - money that is given through legal structures that allow the identities of the givers to be kept secret from the general public. Finally, it will consider alternatives for reform.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credits or permission of instructor
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POLSCI 311 - Political Parties (A)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The American political process, with emphasis on political parties, pressure groups, and public opinion.
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POLSCI 318 - The Legislative Process (A)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The function of national and state legislatures, and the role played by political parties and interest groups in legislatures.
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POLSCI 322 - Politics of Poverty and U.S. Social Welfare Policy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a survey of social welfare policy and the politics of poverty in the United States. It investigates the scope and frequency of poverty in the U.S., who is most likely to be poor, what has typified American responses to poverty, and the various explanations for why these conditions exist. Addressing these issues means that the potential role of group cleavages like race ethnicity, gender, and social class for determining public opinion and policy toward the poor is a central theme. The difficulties and relative efficacy of various forms of political action by the poor, on behalf of the poor, and against the poor are also considered. The course relies on empirical evidence, from authors across the ideological spectrum, to evaluate claims about the poor, poverty politics, policymakers, power, and social welfare policy.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: POLSCI 102 or POLSCI 203 or SOCIOL 101 or one diversity course or a minimum of 60 credits or permission of instructor
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