|
Please note that not all of the courses listed below will be available during the current semester. Please check with the department as to the availability of a particular class.
PHI 1050 -
Intro to Philosophy
Description: The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 2010 -
Logic & Critical Thinking
Description: The study of logic and critical thinking. Topics include: argument identification and analysis; formal and informal logic; fallacies; inductive argument; the role of argumentative structures in various philosophical traditions.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 2115 -
Ethics for Health Care Prof
Description: Rights and duties of the patient/client and the members of the health care team, death and dying, genetic engineering and manipulation.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 2116 -
Bioethics
Description: Theories and conceptions of human suffering, death and life; issues of suicide, bereavement, grief and euthanasia.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 2121 -
Environmental Ethics
Description: The relation of the physical and biological environment to ethical values. Priorities among environmental, economic and political values as a basis for ethical decisions.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PHI 2130 -
Business Ethics
Description: Social justice and charity as principles of order in economic life and relationships: topics include consumer rights, corporate social responsibility, and ecology.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 2140 -
Phil of Criminal Justice
Description: Philosophical dimensions of criminal justice; law and morality, criminal versus civil disobedience, philosophical presuppositions of the insanity defense, philosophical problems in controlling and correcting criminal and delinquent behavior.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
PHI 2150 -
Engineering Ethics
Description: Whistle-blowing, conflicts of interest, political contributions, and the social responsibility of engineers.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 2160 -
The Ethics of War
Description: Just war theory, total war, nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, disarmament, genocide, war crimes and atrocities, terrorism, non-violent resistance, and pacifism.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 2170 -
Mass Media Ethics
Description: The impact of the changing communications technologies on the human person and society; freedom of the press, violence; pornography and censorship, confidentiality of sources, advertising ethics and codes of ethics and standards of practice.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
PHI 2180 -
Computer Ethics
Description: Codes of professional ethics, unauthorized access, ownership of software, and the social responsibility of computing professionals.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 2190 -
Freedom
Description: Human freedom analyzed from a metaphysical and political perspective; readings from classical and contemporary sources on such topics as determinism, slavery, rights, authority and dissent.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007
PHI 2300 -
Philosophy of Law
Description: The nature and function of law, relation of law to ethics, the judicial process, the role of constitutions, the rights of citizens, law and international relations.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 2400 -
Social & Political Phil
Description: Social and political philosophers and the influence of their theories on the philosophical foundation of modern culture and society; emphasis on such conceptions as society, the state, justice and equality, and the social and political nature of persons.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 2410 -
Philosophy of Sex & Love
Description: Embodiment, the nature of sexuality, the types of love, sexual ethics, marriage, sexual differences, and sexual discrimination.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 2420 -
Philosophy of Women
Description: Nature and stutus of women from ancient times to the present, with consideration of the more general context of self-identity; contemporary feminist theories; feminism as a political movement.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
PHI 2430 -
Eco-Feminism
Description: Basic positions in eco-feminism as they relate to the philosophical and religious traditions of the West.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2002, Spring 2000
PHI 2440 -
Amer Indian Thought & Culture
Description: Religious and philosophical concepts of personhood community, and nature; contrast of European and Euro-American Indian philosophies.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 2450 -
Catholic Social Thought
Description: Catholic Social Thought from Rerum Navarum to the present. Its Aristotelean-Thomistic grounding. The Church's challenge to analyses of contemporary social, political, and economic systems.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
PHI 2550 -
Technology & Society
Description: Case studies of specific technologies (such as television, automobiles, health technology) and critical examination of ethical Philosophical and policy issues that these technologies raise.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 2650 -
Philosophy of Sport
Description: Nature of play, sport and game with special emphasis on the role of sport in modern society.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008
PHI 2700 -
Philosophy of Science
Description: Philosophical implications of specific laws and theories; Newton's laws, energy, evolution, relativity, atomic theory. Methodological problems of observation, discovery, testing; scientific realism, revolutions in scientific thought.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 2710 -
Theories of Knowledge
Description: Nature and limits of human knowledge, kinds of knowledge, the nature of perception, subjectivity, belief, doubt, truth, and certitude.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007
PHI 2750 -
Philosophy of Art
Description: The principles and causes of beauty and art with special reference to the formation of art objects and the cultural context of philosophy and art.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PHI 2760 -
Philosophy & Literature
Description: Philosophical ideas in selected literary works; examination of the relation of literature to philosophy; fiction and truth, modes of communication.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
PHI 2800 -
Philosophy of History
Description: Theories concerning the nature of history, the idea of progress, historical inevitability, the role of the "great man".
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2003
PHI 2900 -
Philosophy of Religion
Description: The meaning of God, the experience of the Divine, nature of revelation, negative theology, the absence of God.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PHI 2910 -
Mysticism & Philosophy
Description: The metaphysical interpretation of God, humans and the world implicit in the writings of selected mystics; epistemological issues such as mysticism and logic, the value of mystical experience, mysticism and psychedelic experience, mysticism and ethics.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 2920 -
Asian Philosophies
Description: Sources of Eastern philosophies; aspects of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and/or Sufism.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 2990 -
Topics in Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 2993 -
Internship
Description: Departmentally related and academically creditable field work experience. See department chair for more information. Permission of Department Chair required.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 2996 -
Internship
Description: Departmentally related and academically creditable field work experience. See department chair for more information.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 3020 -
History of Ancient Philosophy
Description: Plato, Aristotle and selected pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers in the context of ancient and classical Greek civilization.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
PHI 3030 -
History of Medieval Philosophy
Description: Philosophical movements from the early Middle Ages to the rise of modern philosophy; the influence of later Medieval speculation upon thinkers of the modern period; readings from Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 3040 -
Hist of Early Mod Philosophy
Description: The systems of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and the empiricists - Locke, berkeley, and Hume; Kant; selections read and evaluated.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 3050 -
Kant & 19th Cent Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 3100 -
Augustine & Antiquity
Description: Life and thought of Saint Augustine; the problem of certitude, the problem of evil, the nature of history, human knowledge and God, the soul-body relations, and political philosophy.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Spring 1997
PHI 3120 -
Augustine & Modernity
Description: Influences of Augustine's major teachings in shaping medieval and modern thought. Augustine's position on human nature, human freedom, sin and grace, history, and the nature and end of society.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 1999, Fall 1998
PHI 3160 -
History of Islamic Phil
Description: Islamic thought, concentrating particularly on Islamic medieval theology and philosophy.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
PHI 3410 -
Thomas Aquinas
Description: Historical influences in the formation of St. Thomas' thought; specific contributions of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism; theory of knowledge, being, persons and morality.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2005
PHI 3720 -
Marx & Marxism
Description: Marx on the theories of human nature, freedom and history; related developments in Marxist thought.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
PHI 3730 -
American Philosophy
Description: The growth of philosophy in America, concentrating on the thinkers of the classical period, especially Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey, and Santayana.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006
PHI 3740 -
Analytic Philosophy
Description: Major themes and trends in analytic philosophy: Russell, logical positivisim, Wittgenstein and present day linguistic philosophy.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 3990 -
Topics in Hist of Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 4100 -
Plato & Aristotle
Description: Selected texts and themes from Plato and Aristotle.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005
PHI 4110 -
Metaphysics
Description: Questions regarding the nature and possibility of metaphysics; selected texts from Greek philosophy to the present.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 4120 -
Philosophy of Biology
Description: Key assumptions of the contemporary sciences: the meaning of life, the relevance of science, the structure of the life sciences, the "doctrine" of DNA and molecular genetics, evolutionary theory, ecology and the "Gaia" hypotheses, and the ethical and social issues spawned by new advances in biology and molecular genetics.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 4140 -
Phil of Contemporary Music
Description: Critical listening to rock pop, jazz, rap, funk, punk, dance, and ambient music; relation of music to noise; theories of Hanslick, Nietzsche, Adorno, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, and Cage.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
PHI 4150 -
Philosophy & Film
Description: Analysis of selected classics and current films from the perspective of basic philosophical concepts and questions.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007
PHI 4200 -
Philosophy of Language
Description: Major classical and contemporary philosophical theories concerning language, including the relationship of language to thought, experience and reality; theories of meaning, communication, linguistics, translation, poetic and religious language.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
PHI 4210 -
Environmental Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 4600 -
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy
Description: Philosophical implications of Freudian theory as it relates to the individual and culture; the role of the unconscious; interpretation, structure of the ego, human sexuality and the foundations of civilization.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005
PHI 4610 -
Philosophy of Mind
Description: The nature of mind, soul, consciousness; the mind-brain relationship; classical and contemporary philosophical approaches; the nature of person identity and moral responsibility.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 4800 -
French Existen & Phenom
Description: The development of phenomenology and existentialism in post-war France; the challenge to this thought by structuralism. Sartre, Marcel, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 4850 -
German Existen & Phenom
Description: Individual and mass society, freedom, our consciousness of the world, and death in the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PHI 4875 -
Hermeneutics
Description: Problem of interpretation; the possibility of a presuppositionless interpretation, interpretation, pre- understanding and the hermeneutic circle, historical, literary, scriptural and artistic interpretation.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2000, Fall 1998
PHI 4900 -
Feminist Theory
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PHI 4990 -
Independent Study & Research
Description: Topic chosen by the student and approved by the professor and the chair.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
PHI 5000 -
Adv Sem for Phil Majors
Description: Special topic in philosophy or current interest to faculty and students. Course is open to Philosophy majors and minors and graduate students with the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
|
