RUSRR048 COURSE CATALOG DETAIL REPORT … · MUS 101 Course ID 004052 Short Title Intro World/Early Euro Music Long Title Intro to World and Early European Music Long Descr This course

MUS 101

Course ID 004052

Short Title Intro World/Early Euro Music

Long Title Intro to World and Early European Music

Long Descr This course provides basic knowledge and understanding of music in culture, withemphasis on listening skills and repertoire. Brief survey of world music and theMedieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods in European music. The functions ofmusic in culture. Study of music vocabulary and early genres of music. Notavailable to Performance Production students. MUS 101 is not available forcredit to students who choose MUS 300.

Academic Org Philosophy

Components Lecture: 3.00

Requisites Not available to students in Performance Production.Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours, Tax Exempt, Wait List Capacity 20

Dept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

MUS 105

Course ID 023473

Short Title Voices Without Borders

Long Title Voices Without Borders: Global Chorus

Long Descr This course surveys vocal repertoire from around the globe, and may includeAfrican drumming songs, 'mingge' from China, Mexican 'corridos', Indian 'lokgeet', Canadian folk songs, South-Asian 'qawwalis', and Eastern Europe folksong, among others. Students will explore the unique social histories andaesthetics of selected vocal genres with an eye to the breadth of stylisticapproaches and forms of transmission in various cultural traditions.



RequisitesEquivalencies



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MUS 106

Course ID 023474

Short Title The Architecture of Music

Long Title The Architecture of Music

Long Descr While music is everywhere around us in our daily lives, for the listener many ofits structural elements are often difficult to identify and appreciate. Throughtheoretical analysis and experiential learning, this course will provide a rangeof technical tools for acquiring a thorough grasp of how music is organized andcreated. Here, students will learn the fundamentals of music notation, developessential aural skills, and acquire a strong understanding of the tonal system.






MUS 201

Course ID 002646

Short Title Intro to Classical Music

Long Title Introduction to Classical Music

Long Descr This course examines Western music from the Classical, Romantic and Modernperiods (approx. 1750 to the present day). Survey of the development of majorstyles, genres and forms of European music, including symphony, concerto andsonata. Lives and works of the great composers including Mozart, Beethoven andStravinsky. Not available to Performance Production students. MUS 201 is notavailable for credit to students who choose MUS 300.



Requisites Not available to students in Performance Production.Equivalencies




MUS 211

Course ID 021749

Short Title Music Cultures of the City

Long Title Music Cultures of the City

Long Descr Large urban centres such as Toronto offer a tremendous variety of events, fromsuperstars in the Rogers Centre to amateur folk musicians in local coffeehouses. What are the ways we might better understand the relationship betweenmusic culture and the culture of the city? This course considers genres from anumber of areas including popular music, world music, jazz and classical music.It examines issues of production, distribution and performance, as well asreception, venues and audiences.




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, 3 Hours, Tax ExemptDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

MUS 300

Course ID 003855

Short Title Musicology

Long Title Musicology

Long Descr A course designed to develop a sensitivity to and better understanding of musicproduction, and to increase awareness of style. Study of materials andstructural and expressive principles of music, instrumental and vocal mediaperformance styles and great performers. Study of main genres of Western musicwith special regard to music dramatic forms and to functions of music in thetheatre, historical backgrounds, cultural patterns, comparison with contemporarytrends in theatre.



Requisites Prerequisite: THP 202 or THP 402.Equivalencies

Attributes 3 HoursDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


MUS 303

Course ID 023825

Short Title Global Guitar

Long Title Global Guitar

Long Descr The guitar, or plucked lute, is the de facto instrument of the masses in thewestern world. Through lecture, audio-visual screenings, discussion andexperiential learning, this course explores the ways in which the guitar and itsglobal variants have given voice to individuals and groups around the world,from ancient Persia and India to Africa and the Americas, and in so doingexamines the impact of class, gender, race, politics and commercialization oncreative self-expression.





MUS 401

Course ID 022192

Short Title Music, Religion, Spirituality

Long Title Music, Religion and Spirituality

Long Descr This course explores the dynamic interrelationship of music, religion andspirituality in a multicultural context. Topics will include the role, style,and conception of music in the Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist,Tibetan, and Taoist faiths, amongst others. The processes and traditions ofspiritual practice through and with sound will be explored. The course will alsoanalyze the musical forms through which these devotional practices areundertaken.






MUS 501

Course ID 000369

Short Title Music of World Cultures

Long Title Music of World Cultures

Long Descr This course surveys folk, art, and popular musics from around the world. Coursecontent covers musical systems, instruments, performance practices, socialstructures, and religious belief systems. Musical analysis is integrated withtheoretical concepts to develop a cross-cultural appreciation of music,including: race, cultural identity, post-colonialism, and globalization. Musicalcultures to be explored may include those of Canada’s First Nations, theCaribbean, Brazil, West Africa, Northern Europe, West Asia, India, China, Japan,and Indonesia.



Requisites Not available to students in Performance Acting, Performance Dance orPerformance Production

Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Upper Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours, Tax Exempt, Wait List Capacity 20


MUS 503

Course ID 025627

Short Title Social Issues in Popular Music

Long Title Social Issues in Popular Music

Long Descr This course will examine the relationship between contemporary popular music andsocial issues. The ways in which popular music addresses, interacts with andintersects identity formation, political movements, technological change, classstructures and geography will be among the topics covered. Examples from 20thand 21st century North American and global popular music will be included toillustrate both developments in musical style and music's connection to socialchange.




Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, TaxExempt



MUS 505

Course ID 021712

Short Title Popular Music and Culture

Long Title Popular Music and Culture

Long Descr This course explores the development of North American, British and non-westernpopular music. Lectures investigate key historical periods and genres whichdefine the popular idiom in the west, such as blues, jazz, country, rock n'roll, folk, rap, and electronica, as well as popular idioms from beyond thewestern world. Changes in technology, economics and demographics will bediscussed, as will links between popular music and the prevailing socialconditions of each period.



Requisites Antirequisite: RTA 905 (formerly BDC 935); Restriction: Not available toPerformance students.

Equivalencies




MUS 507

Course ID 024122

Short Title Architecture of Music II

Long Title Architecture of Music II

Long Descr Building on foundational concepts of musical structure examined in MUS 106, thiscourse explores sophisticated musical form from a global perspective. Particularattention will be paid to the historical development of harmonic and melodiccompositional tropes, and complex rhythmic and formal structures. Students willalso investigate microtonal modes popular in global musical traditions. Withexamples from both ancient and modern genres, lectures will situate thesubtleties of musical aesthetics in their socio-historical and culturalcontexts.



Requisites Restriction: Not available to Performance students.Equivalencies

Attributes Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, Wait List Capacity 20Dept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


PHL 101

Course ID 005504

Short Title Plato and Western Philosophy

Long Title Plato and the Roots of Western Philosophy

Long Descr An introduction to Philosophy, using Plato's Republic. Topics include: How oughtwe to live our lives? What is justice? What is the nature of society and theindividual? What social arrangements (educational, political, economic) bestserve the ideals of justice and happiness?




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours


PHL 110

Course ID 001675

Short Title Philosophy of Religion I

Long Title Philosophy of Religion I

Long Descr This course examines religion from a philosophical perspective. What is thenature of the "divine"? Can we give a rational account of religious experience?Can we prove the existence of God? Can the idea of God be reconciled with thepresence of evil in the world? Is atheism a viable alternative to faith? Theseare just some of the questions this course explores. We will consider bothwestern and eastern religions. PHL 110 is not available for credit to studentswho choose PHL 610.



Requisites Antirequisite: PHL 610Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, WaitList Capacity 20



PHL 187

Course ID 022804

Short Title Ancient Greek Philosophy

Long Title Ancient Greek Philosophy

Long Descr This course explores major themes in Ancient Greek thought. The course coverssome of the doctrines Plato and Aristotle developed to answer a wide range ofquestions, e.g., What is the good life for a human being? What is knowledge? How should we distinguish reality from appearances? What kinds of things exist?What is the soul? Is the soul immortal? In addition, we may examine the ideas ofother philosophers of this period.




Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, TaxExempt, Wait List Capacity 20


PHL 201

Course ID 001352

Short Title Problems in Philosophy

Long Title Problems in Philosophy

Long Descr This course serves as an introduction to philosophy by focusing on problems andissues which have occupied thinkers down through the centuries. For example, howcan we relate talk about the cause and effect relationship governing physicalevents with talk about people making free choices? How do mind and body relate?What do we really know about the physical world or other people's minds? Can weknow whether God exists? Are moral judgements objectively true or false?



Requisites Antirequisite: PHC 180Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours



PHL 210

Course ID 026121

Short Title Intro to Indian Philosophy

Long Title Introduction to Indian Philosophy

Long Descr This course provides an introduction to Indian philosophy , its history, majorfigures, schools, and development from Antiquity to the late classical period.These may include Speculative Thought in the Vedic Corpus, Carvaka Materialism,Early Buddhist Thought, Jain thought, Sa¿khya-Yoga Philosophy, the Nyaya andVaise¿ika Schools, Brahma¿ical Social Philosophy, Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy,and Classical Vedanta. Issues may include selfhood, suffering, the good life,metaphysics, and theory of knowledge.




Attributes Lower Level Liberal Studies, 3 HoursDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

PHL 214

Course ID 005973

Short Title Critical Thinking I

Long Title Critical Thinking I

Long Descr A course designed to develop clarity of thought and method in the construction,analysis and evaluation of both unsupported claims and those supported byarguments. While there will be some exposure to the notion of logical form, theemphasis here is upon informal principles and arguments stated in ordinarylanguage. Topics include the nature and methods of argument, classification anddefinition, along with some common fallacies and some questions about meaningand language. Restriction: Criminal Justice, Politics and Governance,Psychology, Sociology, Undeclared Arts. PHL 214 is not available for credit tostudents who choose SSH 105.



Requisites Antirequisites: SSH 105, PHC 182; N/A to Arts and Contemp. Studies, Criminology,English, Environmental and Urban Sustainability, Geography, History, GCM, Int'lEcon, Philosophy, Politics and Governance, Psychology, Sociology or UndeclaredArts students.

Equivalencies


Dept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0


Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

PHL 302

Course ID 004032

Short Title Ethics and Health Care

Long Title Ethics and Health Care

Long Descr This course examines ethical issues arising in the delivery of health care atboth the level of the practitioner/client relationship (confidentiality,informed consent, euthanasia, abortion) and at a broader social level (justiceand resource allocation, new technologies, professionalization and power). Thecourse will draw on: a) general philosophical analysis of central concepts(good, right, justice, person-hood, autonomy, authority, integrity, health); b)general theoretical perspectives (feminism, "the Biomedical model",Utilitarianism, deontology); and c) student professional education and clinicalexperience in nursing.






PHL 306

Course ID 004459

Short Title Freedom, Equality, Authority

Long Title Freedom, Equality, Limits of Authority

Long Descr In light of our moral concepts and theories, this course critically examinescurrent controversies concerning individual freedom and responsibility, socialequality, and the limits of governmental authority. Topics are drawn from issueslike the following: censorship of hate literature, pornography, and advertising;prohibition of drugs, gambling, and prostitution; group-differentiated rightsconcerning aboriginal peoples, cultural sovereignty, affirmative action, and payequity.



Requisites Antirequisite: PHC 181, PHL 181Equivalencies



PHL 307

Course ID 005963

Short Title Business Ethics

Long Title Business Ethics

Long Descr This course examines ethical issues and controversies concerning contemporarybusiness practices and situates them within the broad intellectual framework ofa free market society. Discussion will draw from such topics as: the concept ofa market society, consumer sovereignty, utilitarian and contract models ofbusiness ethics, profit making and social responsibility, self-interest andaltruism, the concept of business as a practice, mechanistic and organicconceptions of business, advertising, human rights, and conflicts of interest.



Requisites Antirequisites: ITM 407, ITM 734Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, 3 HoursDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


PHL 333

Course ID 010264

Short Title Philosophy of Human Nature

Long Title Philosophy of Human Nature

Long Descr This course examines philosophical writings about human nature. Topics mayinclude: 1) What meanings are there for the word 'nature'? 2) How do wedifferentiate human nature from the nature of other sorts of beings? 3) Whatmakes a response to a problem a human response? The course presumes that thereare no unquestioned first principles, such as the existence of God, the inherentgoodness of humans, or the objectivity of truth claims and values.




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours, Tax Exempt


PHL 334

Course ID 023475

Short Title Ethics in Professional Life

Long Title Ethics in Professional Life

Long Descr This course examines the many ways that organizations and professionsinstitutionalize values, influence beliefs and attitudes, and guide conductthrough prescriptions for professional practices and missions and mandates fororganizations. The course focuses on prominent issues such as codes of ethics,conflict of interest, dirty hands, and whistle-blowing. Readings emphasize thecomplexities of virtue and moral agency for professionals and organizations,while comparing and contrasting selected established and emerging professions.



Requisites Prerequisite: ACS 105 or SSH 105 or any PHL course.Equivalencies

Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, 3 Hours, Tax ExemptDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


PHL 365

Course ID 023206

Short Title Philosophy of Beauty

Long Title Philosophy of Beauty

Long Descr This course examines classical and contemporary philosophical discussion ofquestions surrounding beauty and the aesthetic, such as: Can beauty be defined?Are judgements of beauty fundamentally subjective? Does beauty have value, or isit a harmful and oppressive notion? Are humans 'hard-wired' to pursue thebeautiful?




Attributes Lower Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, Wait List Capacity 20Dept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

PHL 366

Course ID 023207

Short Title Existentialism, Art, Culture

Long Title Existentialism and Art and Culture

Long Descr Through literature, visual art, film, and theory, this course exploresexistentialist lines of thought and their implications for modern day life.Existentialism is a philosophical and cultural movement critical of socialillusions and self-deceptions that thwart genuine freedom. Exploring experiencesof anxiety, futility, and isolation, analyzing the nature of the individual'srelation to society, morality and religion, and arguing for the irrationalnature of reality, existentialist theorists and artists seek to promote freedom,creativity, authenticity.




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours, Tax Exempt



PHL 400

Course ID 002960

Short Title Human Rights and Justice

Long Title Human Rights and Justice

Long Descr This course aims to provide the philosophical background and conceptual toolswhich would enable students to recognize and handle complex contemporary issuesand conflicts involving human rights. Topics include: classic and contemporarytheories of rights and justice; equity and affirmative action; children'srights; gender, sexual orientation and equality rights; aboriginal, language andcultural rights: human rights and cultural relativism. The course will combinelectures and discussion of selected philosophical readings and case studies.





PHL 401

Course ID 010156

Short Title Philosophy and Mass Culture

Long Title Philosophy and Mass Culture

Long Descr This course will explore the phenomenon of popular culture from variousphilosophical perspectives. Philosophers are divided in their assessment of theaesthetic and moral worth of mass culture. While some thinkers, like WalterBenjamin and, more recently, Noël Carroll, tend toward an optimistic appraisal,others, like Theodor Adorno, adopt a much more critical attitude. Popularculture as a whole will be examined, but special attention will be given tofilm, photography, and television.






PHL 406

Course ID 003635

Short Title Issues of Life, Death, Poverty

Long Title Issues of Life, Death and Poverty

Long Descr In light of our moral concepts and theories, this course critically examinescurrent controversies concerning the sanctity of life, the constraints on endinglife, and our obligations to provide the conditions for an acceptable life.Topics are drawn from issues like the following: abortion, euthanasia, capitalpunishment, genetic manipulation, war, torture, global poverty, famine relief,and basic welfare rights.



Requisites Antirequisite: PHC 181, PHL 181Equivalencies



PHL 420

Course ID 023476

Short Title Philosophy, Div., Recognition

Long Title Philosophy, Diversity and Recognition

Long Descr Many are disadvantaged or disvalued because of aboriginality, race, ethnicity,sex, gender, orientation, or such. Usually, problems of marginalization areaddressed in terms of equality, equity, and our legal constitution. Criticsargue that this framework is insufficient to address the problems. They defend adifferent political morality variously referred to as the politics ofrecognition, identity, or difference. This course is a philosophicalinvestigation of the different conceptual frameworks concerning the problems ofmarginalization.



Requisites Prerequisite: ACS 403 or PHL 400 or PHL 501 or PHL 503 or PHL 505 or PHL 603Equivalencies



PHL 444

Course ID 021826

Short Title Ethics in Health Services Mgmt

Long Title Ethics in Health Services Management

Long Descr This course translates the principles, theories and practices of ethicaldecision making into information and applications which will be relevant tohealthcare administration. The course builds on the recognition of theinfluences and factors that impact on health care managers' ethical decisionmaking. Topics and issues which will be addressed in the course include: therole of market forces, integrated medicine, technology, and their impact onquality assurance programs.





PHL 449

Course ID 003795

Short Title Philosophy of Punishment

Long Title Philosophy of Punishment

Long Descr What is the meaning of legal punishment? Why should we punish criminals(including natural and artificial persons, individuals and collectives)? In whatways should they be punished? How important is proportionality of punishment?How significant are expected consequences of punishment? This course criticallyexamines developments in philosophical thinking about the conceptual foundationsof punishment, focusing on theories of deterrence, retributivism, andrestorative justice. Readings are comprised of classic and contemporary works byphilosophers.






PHL 500

Course ID 003191

Short Title Philosophy of Natural Env

Long Title Philosophy of the Natural Environment

Long Descr The rise of environmental philosophy challenges the "anthropocentric paradigm"that has dominated Western thought. This course explores the implications ofthis challenge for our conception of ourselves, the basis for both human andnatural values, and our obligations within the human and biotic communities.Topics include: traditional philosophical attitudes towards nature, obligationsto future generations, "animal rights", individual versus holistic models ofvalue in relation to ecosystems, species and wilderness, and conflicts betweenhuman and natural values.




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, Upper Level LiberalStudies, 3 Hours, Tax Exempt


PHL 501

Course ID 004082

Short Title Oppression, Critique of Power

Long Title Oppression and the Critique of Power

Long Descr This course focuses on the nature of oppression and on the work of thosephilosophers who have sought to uncover, understand, criticize and resist it.Topics may include: controversies in defining oppression; economic exploitationand the critique of capitalism; the politics of race and post-colonialism; thestruggles of Indigenous nations and people; oppression on the basis of sexand/or gender; cultural forms of oppression; intersectional strategies ofresistance.




Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, WaitList Capacity 20



PHL 502

Course ID 024571

Short Title Aristotle

Long Title Aristotle

Long Descr One of the pillars of ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle produced seminal workin a wide range of fields including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, physics,cosmogony, biology, philosophy of mind and action, ethics, politics, andaesthetics. This course will critically examine selected themes and doctrines inAristotle's writings, such as his positions on the nature of time, causation,divinity, the human soul, gender differences, the ideal state, and tragic drama.



Requisites Prerequisite: a minimum of five PHL/CPHL coursesEquivalencies



PHL 503

Course ID 003848

Short Title Ancient and Modern Ethics

Long Title Ancient and Modern Ethics

Long Descr This course explores seminal works in Western ethics. It analyzes differentresponses to such questions as: What kind of life is ultimately worth leading?What makes a person good? What makes an action right? Are there moral demandsthat bind everyone? If so, can we know what they are? Does morality have itsfoundations in religion? Reason? Emotion? Social practices? Contributions fromsuch thinkers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, and Mill will be studied.






PHL 504

Course ID 003627

Short Title Philosophy of Art

Long Title Philosophy of Art

Long Descr The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of a numberof different theories concerning the nature of art. It will address such mattersas the relationship between art and truth, the appropriate criteria of artcriticism, the distinction between art and non-art, and the nature of aestheticvalues.



RequisitesEquivalencies PHL203/PHL504




PHL 505

Course ID 000809

Short Title Hegel and Marx

Long Title Hegel and Marx

Long Descr Hegel and Marx were influential for introducing the notion that our lives onlymake sense when understood historically, in relation to our struggle with natureand with each other. We'll see that whereas Hegel saw this struggle as orientedtowards greater self-knowledge and the freedom of the human spirit, Marx saw itin materialist terms, arguing that economic exploitation, and in particularcapitalism, is the main obstacle to human freedom.




Attributes Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, Wait List Capacity 20Dept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date Grd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1

PHL 506

Course ID 024572

Short Title The Rationalists

Long Title The Rationalists

Long Descr This course traces themes in the epistemology and metaphysics of leadingthinkers of the rationalist movement of the 17th and 18th century. Rationaliststhought reason alone could discover significant metaphysical principles andtruths. This course examines their various answers to questions such as: Whatcan we know about the world? What roles do reason and sensation play inknowledge? How is the mind related to the body? How are thought and perceptionrelated?



Requisites Prerequisite: a minimum of five PHL/CPHL courses, which must include PHL 708Equivalencies



PHL 507

Course ID 001077

Short Title Ethics and Disability

Long Title Ethics and Disability

Long Descr The life circumstances of disabled people are shaped by powerful ideologicalforces rooted in moral and political philosophy. This course introducesimportant intellectual traditions underpinning the human quest for justice. Fromthis base, students 'test out' various ethical approaches, grappling withfundamental questions: How shall we be guided in approaching new reproductivetechnology, end-of-life decisions and asymmetrical relations of care? Are therelimits to individual autonomy? How shall we distribute health care and socialresources?





PHL 508

Course ID 024573

Short Title The Empiricists

Long Title The Empiricists

Long Descr This course traces themes in the epistemology and metaphysics of influentialphilosophers of the empiricist movement of the 17th and 18th Centuries.Rejecting tenets of Rationalism and spurred by the success of the new empiricalsciences, these thinkers sought to ground factual and metaphysical knowledge insensory experience. Topics will include the nature and scope of knowledge,realism, idealism, naturalism, and skepticism. Other topics may include thenature of causation, personal identity, and free will.






PHL 509

Course ID 003376

Short Title Bioethics

Long Title Bioethics

Long Descr Recent advances in biomedical sciences have raised a host of ethical concernsinvolving the sanctity and quality of life, fairness, equality, and autonomy.New and revolutionary developments call for legislative reform and policiesdesigned to keep research and its applications within appropriate boundaries.This course examines issues such as cloning, assisted reproduction, geneticscreening, gene therapy, organ donation, and resource allocation within aframework of moral principles and contemporary debate. PHL 509 is not availablefor credit to students who choose PHL 302.



Requisites Antirequisite: PHL 302; Not available to Nursing program students.Equivalencies



PHL 511

Course ID 024574

Short Title Kant

Long Title Kant

Long Descr Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), sought to bridge the Enlightenment and theRationalist movements. This course will focus on Kant's account of the mind asnot being a blank slate, and its implications for human knowledge and self-understanding. Kant's distinctions between phenomena/noumena andanalytic/synthetic profoundly influenced later thought in Europe, Britain, andNorth-America. Different texts and/or passages from Kant's works will be read atthe discretion of the instructor.






PHL 512

Course ID 024575

Short Title Philosophy of the Emotions

Long Title Philosophy of the Emotions

Long Descr This course will ask "what are emotions?" and explore how answers to thisquestion might challenge longstanding ideas about the nature of selfhood, whatit means to be free, how we are ethically, existentially and ontologicallyrelated to others, how the mind is related to the body, how emotions are relatedto other feelings, beliefs, and desires, or to expressive acts, as well as toreason and how we acquire truths.






PHL 513

Course ID 024576

Short Title Phenomenology

Long Title Phenomenology

Long Descr This course introduces students to the methods and central theses ofphenomenology, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20thCentury. Some of the typical issues to be studied include: the distinctionbetween reflective and lived experience, the nature of perception and embodiedexperience, the intersubjective construction of meaning, the breakdown of thesubject/object dualism, and the temporal structure of human reality. Authorsstudied may include Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.





PHL 514

Course ID 024577

Short Title Mind and Agency

Long Title Mind and Agency

Long Descr This course will examine philosophical attempts to understand the nature ofhuman agency. It will consider traditional accounts of freedom of the will, ofthe relations between theoretical and practical reason, of what it is to dosomething intentionally or on purpose, and of whether human freedom is possiblein a physical world governed by deterministic natural laws. The readings mayinclude both historical and contemporary works in both the analytic andcontinental traditions.






PHL 515

Course ID 024578

Short Title Metaphysics and Epistemology

Long Title Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology

Long Descr This course will consider special topics concerning the nature of reality andour knowledge of it. Topics will vary, but may include: Realism andalternatives; skepticism; causation; causal accounts of knowledge; thepossibility of truth in ethics; modal knowledge claims; reliabilism andjustified true belief accounts of knowledge; new conceptions of experience.Readings may be drawn from both continental and analytic traditions.





PHL 516

Course ID 024579

Short Title Foundations of Analytic Phil

Long Title Foundations of Analytic Philosophy

Long Descr The development of formal logic at the turn of the 20th Century promoted acertain philosophical style and method known as 'analytic philosophy'. Itsproponents sought greater clarity and rigour than they found in traditionalmetaphysics, and brought to philosophy a new focus on language. The courseexamines works by such major figures as Frege, Russell, G.E. Moore,Wittgenstein, and the logical positivists, as well as their critics.






PHL 517

Course ID 024580

Short Title Special Topics

Long Title Special Topics

Long Descr This course provides an opportunity for in-depth study of a particular topic,concept, book or the work of particular author (whether historical orcontemporary) that is not addressed in the same depth elsewhere in thePhilosophy program. Course content will vary each time the course is offered,and will be posted the term prior to the course running.



Requisites Prerequisite: a minimum of six PHL/CPHL coursesEquivalencies


PHL 520

Course ID 026125

Short Title Social-Political Philosophy

Long Title Social and Political Philosophy

Long Descr What is power, and who really holds it in our society? Is a government's powerover us legitimate, and what are its proper limits? Do modern liberaldemocracies really succeed in giving power to ordinary people? When is it rightfor citizens to rebel against the powers that be? Such questions and others willbe addressed by way of a study of some of the classic works in social andpolitical philosophy.




Attributes Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 HoursDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


PHL 521

Course ID 026123

Short Title Personal Identity East West

Long Title Personal Identity East and West

Long Descr Questions surrounding personal identity or the “self” are central to thephilosophical traditions of India and Tibet, the West, and contemporarycognitive scientists. A fruitful cross-cultural dialogue concerning the self,subjectivity, and consciousness is emerging. In this course, we examine some ofthe basic issues and debates through a close reading of a series of papers fromleading philosophical scholars of India and Tibet as well as prominent Westernphilosophers of mind and phenomenologists.





PHL 522

Course ID 026126

Short Title Philosophy and Death

Long Title Philosophy and Death

Long Descr Death and human mortality have been central philosophical topics since ancienttimes. This course deals with philosophical reflections about the nature ofdeath and our knowledge of it. Questions to be considered may include: What isdeath? Are there reasons for thinking we have immortal souls? Would immortalitybe desirable? Are there reasons for thinking we could survive death? Is death abad thing for the person who dies? Is it rational to fear death?






PHL 525

Course ID 024116

Short Title Environmental Ethics

Long Title Environmental Ethics

Long Descr Do animals have rights? Should trees have standing? Do ecosystems haveinterests? What ethical obligations do present generations owe to futuregenerations? How should distributive justice implications of environmentaldecision making be addressed? The course will discuss a variety of ethicalperspectives on human-environment relationships, including distinctlyenvironmental philosophies such as deep ecology, social ecology, andecofeminism. Readings will discuss the applications of theories to local andglobal environmental problems.





PHL 530

Course ID 000381

Short Title Media Ethics

Long Title Media Ethics

Long Descr This course examines the rights, freedoms, and obligations of the media andpractising journalists. Issues may vary somewhat from year to year, but thefollowing are typical: the grounds and limits of freedom of expression; moralresponsibilities respecting truth, balance, and objectivity; media ethics andbusiness pressures; obligations to the public, to the audience, to source, tocolleagues, to the employer, and to oneself. The course includes case studies aswell as regular discussion of ongoing media activity.



Requisites Antirequisite: CC 8969Equivalencies



PHL 544

Course ID 025901

Short Title Feminist Philosophy

Long Title Feminist Philosophy

Long Descr Feminist philosophy engages in critical scrutiny of concepts of sex and gender,and critiques everyday social norms, practices and institutions, relying upondiverse and divergent ethical, political and social theories. This course mayexplore feminist perspectives on ethics, social and political theory, philosophyof science, epistemology and metaphysics. Concerns include: Are there genderedways of knowing? How would a gendered analysis affect the understanding ofalienation, discrimination, exploitation, oppression and subordination?





PHL 550

Course ID 022800

Short Title Knowledge, Truth and Belief

Long Title Knowledge, Truth and Belief

Long Descr Do we know anything? If so, what do we know, and how do we know it? What is thedifference between knowledge and mere belief or opinion? How can we tell if ourbeliefs are justified? What makes some beliefs true, and others false?Epistemology - the study of knowledge - is the branch of philosophy concernedwith such questions. This course explores these issues by examining someimportant contributions to the field, both historical and contemporary.




Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Upper Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, TaxExempt, Wait List Capacity 20



PHL 551

Course ID 022801

Short Title Metaphysics

Long Title Metaphysics

Long Descr This course is an introduction to philosophical accounts of the fundamentalstructure and organization of reality. Questions to be considered may include:Why does the universe exist? What are space and time? Is the past as real as thepresent? Are future events fated to happen? How is change possible? Are thereother universes besides the one we live in? Criticisms of philosophical attemptsto answer these questions will also be discussed.






PHL 552

Course ID 022802

Short Title Philosophy of Science

Long Title Philosophy of Science

Long Descr Science is a cornerstone of modern civilization, a method of inquiry withtremendous prestige and far-reaching effects. This course examines philosophicalattempts to understand the fundamental nature of science. Topics may include: Isthere a scientific method? Is science essentially rational? Does science revealthe truth about nature? What role do values play in science? Are there thingsthat science cannot explain? Is science an expression of one particular culture,or is it somehow universal?






PHL 597

Course ID 025902

Short Title Introduction to Formal Logic

Long Title Introduction to Formal Logic

Long Descr This course is an introduction to propositional and predicate logic. We willstudy: the relationships between formal logical languages and ordinarylanguages like English; the relationship between validity in a system andlogical validity; various methods for showing the validity and invalidity ofpatterns of inference. We will conclude with a brief introduction to some of themeta-logical concepts, such as soundness and completeness, that are the core ofmany more advanced studies in logic.



Requisites Prerequisites: SSH 105 or PHL 214; Antirequisite: MTH 110Equivalencies


PHL 600

Course ID 024682

Short Title Seminar in Analytic Philosophy

Long Title Seminar in Analytic Philosophy

Long Descr This seminar provides students an opportunity for an in-depth study of atraditional topic or debate in analytic philosophy. Students will be required towrite a major paper. Course content varies according to the instructor'sresearch interests and expertise, but could include: epistemology, metaphysics,moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, etc.



Requisites Prerequisite: Minimum of six PHL/CPHL coursesEquivalencies



PHL 601

Course ID 024581

Short Title Seminar in Continental Phil

Long Title Seminar in Continental Philosophy

Long Descr This seminar provides students an opportunity for an in-depth study of aspecific topic or figure in continental philosophy. Students will be required towrite a major paper. Course content varies according to the instructor'sresearch interests and expertise, but could include: philosophy of difference,biopolitics, religion and secularization, embodiment, dialectics, the nature oftemporality and historicity, the role of the aesthetic, etc.





PHL 602

Course ID 005719

Short Title Health Pol: Ethics and Justice

Long Title Health Policy: Ethics and Justice

Long Descr This course is concerned with implications of diverse theories of justice forthe design and operation of health care. Topics covered may include: What mightdistinguish health care from other goods distributed by society? Who should haveaccess to health care? What makes health care systems more or less fair? Whatare implications of social inequality for access to, and quality of, healthcare? How might health policy contribute to addressing problems of globalinjustice?






PHL 603

Course ID 001070

Short Title Modern and Contemporary Ethics

Long Title Modern and Contemporary Ethics

Long Descr This course explores modern and recent answers to ethical questions such as:What makes an action right? What makes a person good? Are there moral demandsthat bind everyone? If so, can we know what they are? Does morality have itsfoundations in reason? Emotion? Social practices? Contributions from suchthinkers as Hegel and Bradley, Moore, Ross, Foot, Williams, Gilligan, andMacIntyre will be studied.



Requisites Prerequisite: PHL 306 or PHL 406 or PHL 503 or PHL 612Equivalencies



PHL 605

Course ID 002487

Short Title Existentialism

Long Title Existentialism

Long Descr For existentialists, freedom is not a given, but something to achieve. Readingauthors like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir and Heidegger, we'll askwhat aspects of the human condition tend to thwart true freedom: Self-deception?Social norms or religious codes? Anxiety in confronting death? Longing forabsolute justification for life's meaning? Alienation arising from anoverestimation of reason or technology? We'll also consider what is required forauthenticity, responsibility, freedom, and, possibly, the meaning of faith.







PHL 606

Course ID 003631

Short Title Philosophy of Love and Sex

Long Title Philosophy of Love and Sex

Long Descr This course examines historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives onlove and sex. Questions considered may include: What is romantic love? What arethe relations between love, monogamy and marriage? Is adultery always morallywrong? What are the relations between love/sex and personal identity, gender andbiology? What are sexual perversions? What is the moral status of prostitutionand the commodification of sex? How should we define the concept of sexualharassment?






PHL 607

Course ID 026122

Short Title Contemporary Continental Phil

Long Title Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Long Descr This course explores some of the major figures and movements in contemporarycontinental philosophy, which can include developments in phenomenology,hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism, psychoanalytictheory, and critical theory. Topics covered may include the critique ofscientific worldviews, technology and our place in the world, embodiment andsubjectivity, religion and secularism, challenges to humanism, the dependence oftruth on language and historical context, and possible limits of philosophy andconceptual thought.



Requisites Prerequisites: A minimum of 5 PHL courses; Antirequisite: PHL 553Equivalencies



PHL 611

Course ID 003821

Short Title Philosophy of Mind

Long Title Philosophy of Mind

Long Descr This course will examine, through both classical and contemporary texts,selected issues regarding human (and other) minds such as: How are mind andbrain related? What is consciousness? Are thoughts prior to the acquisition oflanguage? Can/could computers think? Do non-human animals think? Can the mind be'naturalized' (understood as a product of evolution) or must it remain beyondour understanding?






PHL 612

Course ID 002518

Short Title Philosophy of Law

Long Title Philosophy of Law

Long Descr What is law? What makes something a legal norm? Should citizens always obey thelaw? What is the relationship between law and morality? This course will explorecompeting theories of law, such as natural law and positivism, and touch oncrucial debates over civil disobedience, purposes of punishment, andinterpretation of legal texts. It will deal with contemporary controversies overthe legal regulation of human behaviour, for instance in matters of sexualmorality.






PHL 614

Course ID 024120

Short Title Philosophy of Human Rights

Long Title Philosophy of Human Rights

Long Descr Are human rights universal? Are they absolute? Have civil and political rightsbeen privileged in relation to social and economic rights? Should some humanrights be understood as collective or group rights to address issues of culturalidentity? This course critically examines the works of contemporary philosophersarticulating diverse accounts of human rights, alongside objections which havebeen raised by Feminists, Cultural Relativists, and advocates of The Full BellyThesis, and other perspectives.







PHL 621

Course ID 004809

Short Title Non-Western Philosophy

Long Title Non-Western Philosophy

Long Descr This course is an introduction to some major world religions and philosophies,systems which continue to inform the actions of cultures outside mainstreamEuro-American tradition. Theoretical concerns can include such subjects ascultural relativism, differing cultural views on the nature of decisions andtheir justification, and the difficulties of adequately describing what is goingon in a different cultural setting. More practical concerns can include suchsubjects as the problems of exporting political and economic systems acrosscultural boundaries, or of getting notions such as those of individual rights tomake sense in a radically different conceptual milieu.




Attributes Advertised, Certificate and degree credit, 39 Hours, 3 Hours, ProfessionallyRelated, Tax Exempt



PHL 639

Course ID 025903

Short Title Medieval Philosophy

Long Title Medieval Philosophy

Long Descr The 'Middle Ages' are an underappreciated but important and diverse time in thehistory of philosophy in the Judaic, Christian and Islamic traditions. Our aimwill be to give a general conversancy in medieval philosophy and its culturalcontext in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The course may focus ontopics such as reason and faith, the problem of universals, the existence ofGod, or the relation between church and state.





PHL 648

Course ID 025904

Short Title Philosophy and Literature

Long Title Philosophy and Literature

Long Descr This course explores some of the rich points of intersection between philosophyand literature. Topics to be addressed may include: the relationship betweenliterature and truth; questions concerning the nature and limits of literaryinterpretation and authorship; the relationship between literature, ethics, andpolitics; and whether literary writing can express aspects of reality or ofhuman experience that cannot be captured in standard conceptual or analyticwriting.






PHL 661

Course ID 025905

Short Title Marx, Nietzsche and Freud

Long Title Marx, Nietzsche and Freud

Long Descr Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud have been referred to as the'masters of suspicion.' These late nineteenth and early twentieth-centurythinkers examined the reasons that people fall prey to forms of mystification,and sought to lift the veil from our eyes so as to emancipate us from dominationand repression. Some of the key topics to be examined include repression,alienation, commodity fetishism, revolution, nihilism, genealogy and theunconscious.



Requisites Prerequisite: one PHL courseEquivalencies


PHL 700

Course ID 024582

Short Title Meta-Philosophy

Long Title Meta-Philosophy

Long Descr The course will involve comparing and contrasting philosophical approaches,traditions, styles, and methods, from different periods and cultures, in orderto isolate and understand the skills employed. This course will also explore howphilosophical skills are applied in a variety of non-academic activities,professions and occupations. Guest lecturers who work outside the academicsector will explain and discuss how their philosophical skills helped them intheir lives, and how they use them in their professions.






PHL 707

Course ID 025906

Short Title Plato

Long Title Plato

Long Descr As the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, Plato is the founder ofwestern philosophy as we know it. His dialogues cover a wide range of topics,including language, knowledge and self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, cosmology,metaphysics, ethics and virtue, politics, rhetoric, and education. This coursewill examine one such dialogue, or a selection from a few dialogues, in depthand detail.



Requisites Prerequisite: Minimum of five PHL/CPHL coursesEquivalencies


PHL 708

Course ID 003027

Short Title Intro to Modern Philosophy

Long Title Introduction to Modern Philosophy

Long Descr This course examines the foundations of contemporary conceptions of knowledgethrough a study of the two dominant philosophical traditions of the 17th and18th centuries - Rationalism and Empiricism. The philosophers studied willinclude Descartes, Hume, and Kant. The themes examined may include the nature ofknowledge, the origin and formation of beliefs about the external world, thethreat of scepticism, theories of perception, contemporary relevance, and therelation between mind and body.



RequisitesEquivalencies PHL207/PHL708



PHL 709

Course ID 001755

Short Title Religion Sci and Philosophy

Long Title Religion, Science and Philosophy

Long Descr The physical sciences have contributed to philosophical debates regarding theapparent conflict between religious and scientific outlooks. In particular,religion and science seem to suggest different accounts of human nature, theuniverse, and our place in it. This course is concerned with issues such as: the basis for religious and scientific claims, nature and intelligent design,causality and free-will, and the emergence of mind.






PHL 710

Course ID 000616

Short Title Philosophy and Film

Long Title Philosophy and Film

Long Descr This course examines the medium of film from several philosophical perspectives.Questions to be considered may include: What distinguishes film from other massmedia and art forms? Do technical developments alter the definition of film? Isthere a language of film? What can film teach us about the nature of perception?Does film contain an inherent gender bias? Has film created a captive audience,or is it the truly democratic art form?







PHL 711

Course ID 025907

Short Title Language, Meaning and Truth

Long Title Language, Meaning and Truth

Long Descr This course examines central topics regarding the nature of language, such as:What makes our utterances have the meanings they do? Is truth a social/culturalconstruction or in some way relative to one's social location? Does languagehave rules and, if so, what explains them? How does language influence ourconception of the world? Do non-human animals have language? How and what dometaphors communicate?





PHL 714

Course ID 025908

Short Title Philosophy of Biology

Long Title Philosophy of Biology

Long Descr This course explores philosophical questions arising from the biologicalsciences. Topics may include: the status of biology as an empirical science, theexistence of biological laws, the existence of design in nature, the nature ofspecies, and the possibility of 'reducing' biology to physics. The course mayalso explore possible relations between evolutionary theory and human cultureand ethics.






PHL 718

Course ID 025909

Short Title Advanced Topics in Ethics

Long Title Advanced Topics in Ethics

Long Descr This course may investigate one or more figures, perspectives, or problems inhistorical or contemporary theoretical or applied ethics. Possible topicsinclude the nature of practical reason and its relation to emotions and sociallife; the metaphysical status of moral values and/or the epistemological statusof moral intuitions and judgments; or challenges to modern ethics from therevival of virtue ethics or the ethics of care, authenticity, or ambiguity.



Requisites Prerequisite: a minimum of six PHL/CPHL courses, which must include PHL 503Equivalencies


PHL 732

Course ID 025910

Short Title Topics in Political Philosophy

Long Title Topics in Political Philosophy

Long Descr This course may investigate one or more major figures, historical periods orcritical moments in political philosophy depending on the instructor'sinterests. Alternatively, it might explore (a) some perennial problem, e.g.,the relation between reason and force, the constitution of the well-orderedsociety and citizen, limits on the use of force and the nature of freedom or (b)a particular theme, as in the scholarship confronting the Enlightenment project.






PHL 752

Course ID 025911

Short Title German Idealism

Long Title German Idealism

Long Descr Kant's revolutionary Transcendental Idealism provoked a remarkable new wave ofphilosophical activity in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Thinkers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel sought to advance, extend, andtranscend Kant's idealistic conceptions of nature and subjectivity, and in doingso they each developed formidable and influential new philosophical systems oftheir own. This course focuses on the work of one or more of these post-KantianIdealists.





PHL 757

Course ID 025912

Short Title Major Figures in Western Phil

Long Title Major Figures in Western Philosophy

Long Descr This course provides a special opportunity for students to engage in anin-depth, sustained study of the work of one of the major thinkers of theWestern philosophical tradition. Generally speaking, the figure chosen will beone whose work has not been the central focus of one of our other courses.Examples include Augustine, Descartes, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Davidson, Derridaand Foucault.






PHL 758

Course ID 026124

Short Title Major Figures in Eastern Phil

Long Title Major Figures in Eastern Philosophy

Long Descr This course provides a special opportunity for students to engage in anin-depth, sustained study of the work of one of the major thinkers of in anEastern philosophical tradition. Generally speaking, the figure chosen will beone whose work has not been the central focus of one of our other courses. Theseinclude Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Candrakirti, Vastyayana, Sankara, Tsongkhapa,Laotzu, Confucius, and Dogen.



Requisites Prerequisites: 6 PHL courses, one of which must be PHL 201 or PHL 521Equivalencies


PHL 802

Course ID 024583

Short Title Project in Applied Philosophy

Long Title Project in Applied Philosophy

Long Descr Students will complete an independent project involving the application of thephilosophical methods/conclusions they have learned in their program to acontemporary social issue or problem. In the seminar, students will plan andexecute their project under the guidance of the instructor and in dialogue withother students. At the end of the course they will present their work in apublic forum.






PHL 803

Course ID 024584

Short Title Phil Engaging Communities

Long Title Philosophy Engaging Communities

Long Descr Philosophical questions appeal to children, youth and adults from all walks oflife. In this course, students will develop the skills and philosophicalinsights required for engaging communities beyond the university inphilosophical learning. Students will learn by examining texts on the nature,means and ends of philosophical education; participating in workshops onfacilitating philosophical learning; and engaging various communities (includingat-risk children and youth ages 5-17, homeless youth, prisoners, and seniors) inphilosophical discussion.





PHL 808

Course ID 002712

Short Title Language and Philosophy

Long Title Language and Philosophy

Long Descr This course will examine philosophical issues regarding both the nature oflanguage and the relation of language to other matters. The first group includestopics such as: What distinguishes linguistic communication from other types ofcommunication? How do metaphors work? In what ways is language rule-governed?The latter group might include: How are thought and language related? How islanguage related to gender? To personal identity? To rationality or reason?







PHL 810

Course ID 023477

Short Title Philosophy of Cinema

Long Title Philosophy of Cinema

Long Descr This course is a philosophical exploration of the art of cinema. It focuses on arange of auteurs (directors) and styles, as well as debates within filmaesthetics. Topics may include the following: forms, genre theory, cinematictechniques, memory, world cinema, concern with modernity, visuality andtemporality, reflexivity, criminality, and gender. Directors may include Murnau,Lang, Dreyer, Renoir, Kurosawa, Welles, Tarkovsky, Kiarostami, Haneke, andBreillat. Theorists may include: Arnheim, Bazin, Kracauer, Cavell, Rothman, andCarroll.





PHL 900

Course ID 021744

Short Title Senior Philosophy Seminar

Long Title Senior Philosophy Seminar

Long Descr This senior seminar provides Philosophy and ACS (Philosophy Option) students theopportunity to develop advanced research, presentation and writing skills in aspecialized field of Philosophy. Students will normally be required to write amajor paper. Course content varies according to the instructor's researchinterests and expertise.




Attributes Degree credit, 39 Hours, 3 Hours, Tax ExemptDept Consent No Special Consent RequiredDynamic Date TRANSITIONGrd Basis GradedHegis Code GPA Weight 1.00/1.00Billing Units 1.0Course Count 1.0Repeat for CreditNTotal Completions1


PHL 910

Course ID 023478

Short Title Senior Philosophy Seminar

Long Title Senior Philosophy Seminar

Long Descr This senior seminar provides Philosophy and ACS (Philosophy Option) students theopportunity to develop advanced research, presentation and writing skills in aspecialized field of Philosophy. Students will normally be required to write amajor paper. Course content varies according to the instructor's researchinterests and expertise.





PHL 921

Course ID 003164

Short Title Intellectual Property and Tech

Long Title Intellectual Property and Technology

Long Descr This course examines the multifaceted aspects of developments in intellectualproperty policy. Students will explore the diverse ethical norms, socialpractices, and legal doctrines which are used to both justify and to critiqueexisting policies. The course will introduce students to the basic types ofintellectual property rights - copyright, patents, trademarks, and tradesecrets. It will survey various ethical theories or perspectives which arebrought to bear on the topic.






PHL 922

Course ID 023479

Short Title Religious Belief, Div., Truth

Long Title Religious Belief, Diversity, and Truth

Long Descr Contemporary society has been - and continues to be - formed in large measure bythe religious commitments of individuals and institutions, both past andpresent. In this pluralistic age, how are we to understand the differencesbetween the religious traditions of the world? What are we to do when the rightsor interests of one religious group or individual conflict with those ofanother? This course explores the many philosophical issues surroundingreligious diversity.



Requisites Prerequisite: PHL 110 or PHL 709Equivalencies


PHL 923

Course ID 023487

Short Title Philosophy of Religion II

Long Title Philosophy of Religion II

Long Descr This course offers students an opportunity for advanced study of whatphilosophers have had to say about religion. Readings will be drawn frominfluential historical philosophers, and from contemporary philosophers. Sometopics will pertain to theistic religions, some to non-theistic religions, andothers to both. Topics may include: religious language; ethics and the meaningof life; the concept of the Sacred; the relationship between religious beliefsand evidence; and puzzles about the characteristics of God.



Requisites Prerequisite: PHL 110 or PHL 709Equivalencies




PHL 924

Course ID 023488

Short Title Critical Thinking II

Long Title Critical Thinking II

Long Descr This course cultivates the critical thinking skills acquired in introductorycritical thinking: clarity of thought, reasoning systematically, and theconstruction, analysis and evaluation of claims and arguments. The course willexamine fundamental principles and standards governing good reasoning, as wellas their application to specific philosophical issues. Topics will includedeductive arguments and logical form, inductive and causal arguments, and someof the ensuing philosophical controversies and paradoxes, such as Hume's problemof induction.



Requisites Prerequisite: PHL 214 or SSH 105 or ACS 105Equivalencies


PHL 950

Course ID 023489

Short Title Directed Research Course

Long Title Directed Research Course

Long Descr This course offers senior students the opportunity for advanced and independentstudy with a member of the Philosophy Department. Topics are determined jointlyby the student and the professor.



Requisites Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least 25 courses before takingPHL 950, at least 6 of which must be PHL courses, and have a CGPA of at least3.33

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REL 100

Course ID 025939

Short Title Intro to Religious Studies

Long Title Introduction to Religious Studies

Long Descr This course is an introduction to some of the foundational readings and ideas ofreligious studies. What is religion? What are its origins? How is the sacreddifferent from the profane? This course examines key figures and texts fromanthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy in an effort to understandthe complexity of religious phenomena. Some of the features of religion to bediscussed are ritual, sacred space and time, spirituality, faith-community, andmorality.





REL 101

Course ID 025940

Short Title Intro to World Religions

Long Title Introduction to World Religions

Long Descr This course is a survey of the history, social and political context, beliefs,practices, and influence of the major religious traditions of the world. Thecourse will introduce students to the religions of Indian origin (Hinduism,Buddhism, and Sikhism), the religions of Chinese origin (Confucianism, Taoism,and Chinese Buddhism), and the religions of Semitic origin (Judaism,Christianity, and Islam). This course presupposes no religious or anti-religiousperspective.




Attributes Advertised, Degree credit, 39 Hours, Lower Level Liberal Studies, 3 Hours, TaxExempt



REL 200

Course ID 026132

Short Title Intro to Hinduism and Buddhism

Long Title Introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism

Long Descr This course provides an introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism. We will exploreHindu traditions in classical and contemporary terms through scriptural texts ofthe Ancient and Classical Brahma¿ical or Vedic Tradition – most prominently theUpani¿ads and the Bhagavad Gita –the emergence of Pre-modern, and finallycontemporary Hinduism. We will explore Buddhists traditions from the earlydevelopment of Buddhist thought in South Asia to the contemporary manifestationsof Buddhism as a living tradition in Asia and beyond.






SSH 105

Course ID 002421

Short Title Critical Thinking I

Long Title Critical Thinking I

Long Descr Rational discourse has long been viewed as a principal force for social change.In this course, we will examine the structures and principles that undergird allforms of rational discourse, and we will learn how to assess the logicalstrength and persuasiveness of particular discourses. These skills will beapplied to arguments found in everyday life, and to the formulation of one's ownpositions. (Formerly ACS 105)


Components Lecture: 2.00 / Tutorial: 1.00




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