2021-2022 Course List

This course allows continuing enrollment in the DNP program to complete the capstone project. It continues registration after completion of all other program requirements and may not be used to meet any other program or graduation requirement.

Introduction to the nature of philosophy and specific, basic problems.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

This course considers historical and contemporary analyses of the mind in relation to the body and the connection of the mind-body problem to other issues concerning both religion and science.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Traditional syllogistic logic and an introduction to the elements of modern symbolic logic.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-04

This course explores what makes reasoning scientific as distinguished from non-scientific. Issues are inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, fallacies, hypothetico-deductive reasoning, falsifiability, and scientific knowledge.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-04

To what extent do the differences among races and between genders represent biological differences, and to what extent are they constructed by society? Is racism best conceptualized as an additional burden to sexism or as one different in kind?

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-07

Discussion of theories of value and obligation.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

Survey of Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Discussion of the ways that a culture both creates human community and shapes self-identity. Exploration of similarities and differences between and interdependence among cultural traditions, and of vocabularies for assessing traditions.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Ethical perspectives relevant to issues such as euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant, patients' rights, abortion, etc.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.V

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.V

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

Questions about human responsibilities to other animals and the environment gain urgency as environmental crises become more prevalent, and animal species continue to be eliminated. Learn about, critique, and apply the principles underlying evaluations of human environmental conduct.

Goal Areas:

GE-09, GE-10

Consideration of the basic philosophical approaches to the idea of justice and how this idea relates to other fundamental ideas in political philosophy, ethics, and law.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

Study of the elements of first order symbolic logic, i.e., the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus, and its applications to ordinary language and mathematics.

Goal Areas:

GE-02

Human rights and responsibilities in relation to the organization of society and government.

Topics in normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical theory.

This course will introduce students to important texts in moral and social philosophy that provide the foundation for modern economics. In addition, we will discuss philosophical accounts of rationality, well being, and freedom and their relevance to economic analysis.

Philosophers of Ancient Greece, Rome and the early middle ages: The presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic and Roman philosophers, St. Augustine.

Late Medieval Philosophy and its influence on the Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz and Continental Rationalism, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and British Empiricism, and Kant.

Philosophers and philosophies of the 19th century.

Critical discussion of the topics chosen from the Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Structure and logic of religious belief. Problems such as the existence of God, evil, immortality, miracles, and religious language.

This course will undertake a close reading and study of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and other texts.

A study of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.