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Key to Course Descriptions
Abbreviations
(C) City Campus
(N) North Campus
(S) South Campus
F Fall
S Spring
F/S Fall and Spring
SS Summer Session
F+ Offered every other Fall
S+ Offered every other Spring
N Non-Credit |
Course Descriptions by Curriculum
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Humanities | | | | PY-100 | | CRITICAL THINKING | | An informal or non-symbolic logic course which focuses on improving the ability to think and argue coherently through increasing critical awareness. Logical distinctions and principles which aid in the understanding, criticism, and construction of arguments are employed. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-101 | | KNOWLEDGE & REALITY | | An introductory course in theories of knowledge and reality. Topics will include justification of beliefs; theories of truth and meaning; relationships between beliefs; meaning and reality. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-102 | | LOGIC | | An introduction to the basic techniques of traditional symbolic deductive logic. Topics will include symbolization of ordinary language statements and arguments into logical notation; testing the validity of arguments by traditional methods (truth tables and natural deduction); formal and informal fallacies; the reduction ad absurdum method of refuting argument; inductive vs. deductive reasoning. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-104 | | PHIL OF RELIGION | | An analysis of the problems of religious language with respect to belief in Gods existence, which will cover such issues as faith and reason, language about God; the idea of God, the symbolic nature of religious statements; scientific vs. religious language; the logic of religious statements. General topics will also include the nature of evil, immortality, and worship. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-105 | | SOC POLIT PHILOSOPHY | | A historical survey of major trends in social and political thought from Plato to Dewey. Contrasting views of the following issues will be treated: law and the structure of the state; concepts of justice; and its relation to political obligation social contract theories; political utopias; theories of human nature; civil disobedience and revolution. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-110 | | ETHICS | | A critical survey of historically significant moral theories. Different conceptions of the good life and standards of right conduct will be examined along with the problems of moral responsibility and the principles and methods of moral judgment. Readings will be drawn from contemporary sources and from the works of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Dewey, and Ayer. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-111 | | BIOMEDICAL ETHICS | | This is a course in applied ethics which concentrates on moral problems that arise in medical and biological research. A variety of problems will be critically evaluated through lecture and discussion. (C, N, S) Cycling | | | | PY-115 | | PHILOSOPHY OF LAW | | A systematic introduction to the conceptual and ethical analysis of selected topics in law and jurisprudence. Topics will include the nature and validity of law, legal systems, morality and law, theories of punishment, and definitions and theories of justice. (N) Cycling | | |
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