Course Descriptions
Philosophy Upper Level Course Descriptions
ENG 4013 - Literary Theory - 3 credit(s)
This is a seminar in literary criticism from Aristotle to the present. The course focuses on the relationships between literary theory and "real life" politics, philosophy, religious struggles, and assumptions about the nature of "knowledge."
EVR 3020 - Environmental Philosophies - 3 credit(s)
Examination of a number of different environmental philosophies as they have been presented through a variety of forms of human expression. Topic center on environmental thought in North American, but philosophies from other cultures, particularly indigenous peoples, will also be studied.
PHH 3050 - Phi: History Texts Methods I - 3 credit(s)
Grounds philosophy majors in four classic philosophical methodologies taught through primary texts: categorical and propositional logic, Socratic dialectic, Thomistic disputation, and Cartesian radical doubt.
PHH 3050L - Phi:History Texts Methods Lab - 1 credit(s)
Companion course to PHH 3050 Philosophy: History, Texts, Methods I. Students will perform the philosophical methods of that course through logical problems, written, and oral exercises.
PHH 3103 - Ancient Greece - 3 credit(s)
Study ancient Greek notions about, reason, political justice, and the human self, primarily as they appear in philosophy, but also with reference to epic and dramatic literature of the time.
PHH 3930 - ST History of Philosophy - 3 credit(s)
Covers a Philosophical era, movement or theme, taking into account the connection between ideas and their historical context. Topic varies by semester, may be repeated.
PHH 3931 - ST History of Philosophy - 3 credit(s)
Covers a Philosophical era, movement or theme, taking into account the connection between ideas and their historical context. Topic varies by semester, may be repeated.
PHH 4051 - Phi: History Texts Methods II - 3 credit(s)
Grounds major in five modern philosophical methodologies, taught through primary texts: Empiricism and Positivism, Kantian critique, Hegelian and other dialectics, anti-systematic and literary methodologies, and phenomenology.
PHH 4051L - Phi:History Txts MethodsII Lab - 1 credit(s)
Companion course to PHH 4051 Philosophy: History Texts and Methods II. Students will perform the philosophical methods of that course through logic problems, written, and oral exercises.
PHH 4450 - Hume, Kant and Rousseau - 3 credit(s)
Provides detailed analysis of the works of three of the figures who were most central to the formation of enlightenment thinking and the philosophical schools that followed: David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
PHI 3106 - Principles of Rhetoric & Argum - 3 credit(s)
Introduction to the formal principles of argumentative discourse, both logical and rhetorical, and application of those principles to the tasks of critical reading and constructing sound arguments.
PHI 3223 - Philosophy Human Communication - 3 credit(s)
The philosophical foundations of thinking, speaking, and writing: the nature and structure of human knowing; the mediation of inter- subjective relations through spoken language; and the fixing of human experience in texts.
PHI 3670 - Ethics in Theory and Practice - 3 credit(s)
The course will cover major ethical ideas and theories from a philosophical perspective with a special focus on applying those ideas to concrete issues and problems.
PHI 3720 - Faith and Reason - 3 credit(s)
Study philosophy of religion, focusing on the question of the relationship and possible conflict between religious faith and philosophical reason.
PHI 3930 - Special Topics in Philosophy - 3 credit(s)
This course will cover a special topic in Philosophy. See Instructors course description for details.
PHI 3941 - Philosophy Internship - 1 to 3 credit(s)
Internship working in a career field that allows for the practical implementation of philosophical training. Students may elect to take up to 3 hours of internship for credit.
PHI 4905 - Directed Independent Study - 3 credit(s)
Individualized study under the direction of a faculty member.
PHI 4938 - Capstone Seminar in Philosophy - 3 credit(s)
Seminar in which majors engage the history of philosophy and demonstrate advanced performance of academic philosophy via examination on core texts and the production of a senior thesis.
PHI 4938L - Capstone Philosophy Lab - 1 credit(s)
Companion course to Capstone Seminar for Philosophy majors. The course centers around a philosophy related service or community learning project proposed and executed by students in the course.
PHM 3351 - Philosophy of Human Rights - 3 credit(s)
An advanced introduction to classical and contemporary philosophical arguments and problems involved in human right discourses.
PHP 3786 - Existentialism - 3 credit(s)
Covers the Existentialist movement in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe which focuses on the analysis of concrete human existence, the self, finitude, freedom, and the ethical and psychological dilemmas of nihilism.
PHP 4930 - Major Figures in Philosophy - 3 credit(s)
A semester-long intensive study of a single philosopher or thematically linked group of philosophers whose work significantly repositions major philosophical dynamics. Figures studied will vary; course may be repeated once with change of content. 9 hours of PHH, PHI or PHP courses needed as prerequisite or permission of instructor.
