PHIL110 INTRODUCTION TO THE MIND & MORAL LEADERSHIP - Students explore and various historical and contemporary perspectives on ethics, leadership, leadership mentality, and practical reasoning skills towards facilitating collaborative projects. Hours: 3

 

PHIL101 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY - An introduction to classical and contemporary philosophical problems in ethics, politics, metaphysics, and theories of knowledge. Hours: 3

 

PHIL120 BASIC ETHICS: The Art of Living - Students develop ethical reasoning skills by exploring and applying major ethical theories to real-life dilemmas. Hours: 3

 

PHIL122 BUSINESS ETHICS: Taking Care of Business - Students develop and engage in ethical reasoning and leadership skills by exploring and applying major ethical theories to the art of working in a business environment. Hours: 3

 

PHIL123 ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: Being in the World - Students explore the human relationship towards the environment and environmental ethics, covering such issues as, what is nature? how should we consider our relationship towards the environment? wilderness have special significance? Hours: 3

 

PHIL124 PHILOSOPHY AND RECREATION: Climbing the Mountain - Students take the opportunity to explore the area's recreation possibilities in an embodied and embedded manner while cultivating the tools to reflectively examine some of the theoretical and philosophical issues involved in enjoyment of the outdoors. Hours: 3

 

PHIL125 AESTHETICS: Art as Reflecting on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Through engaging with an art project, or otherwise participating in the arts community, students encounter material against which they will explore and develop themes presented in the philosophical tradition of reflecting on the nature of art, aesthetics, and creativity. Hours: 3

 

PHIL200 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - Students engage in a philosophical investigation of the nature, purpose, and justification of political systems through reading positions advanced on the topic by thinkers from the ancient world to the present. Cross listed with POLS 200. Hours: 3

 

PHIL201 LOGIC AND ARGUMENTATION - The principles of deductive and inductive logic, how to construct cogent arguments, and how to identify errors in reasoning. Cross-listed with COMM 205. Hours: 3

 

*PHIL212 RELIGIONS & PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA & CHINA - A study of the belief and practice of the religions of Asia: Animism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism; Confucionism, Taoism, and Shinto. (Cross-listed as REL/SOC 212) Hours: 2.

 

*PHIL213 RELIGIONS OF THE BOOK: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, & ISLAM - An introduction to the belief systems of the religions of the Ancients, Judaism, Christianity, & Islam. (Crosslisted as REL/SOC213) Hours: 2.

 

PHIL280 HISTORY OF ETHICAL THINKING - Students explore the development of theories of ethics, value, and morality as they are cultivated from various world traditions. Hours: 3

 

PHIL289 THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND VALUES - An introduction to the study of knowledge in general, the nature of fact, value and truth, the structure of scientific explanation and prediction, the nature of causation, laws of nature and induction, and theories of interpretation and their application. Hours: 3

 

PHIL290 DIRECTED STUDY: Philosophical Engagement - Students utilize philosophical tool kit to select and engage in a personal or community project (encouraged to build on PHIL 100 and one of 122-5) and articulate the theoretical considerations embodied in the project. Hours: 3