PHI - Philosophy

Courses

PHI 1011: Introduction to Philosophy: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Introduces significant theoretical and practical questions and emphasizes understanding the meaning and methods of philosophy. Includes: the human condition, logic, reality, knowledge, freedom, history, ethics, and religion.

PHI 1012: Ethics: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Examines human life, experience, and thought to discover and develop the principles and values for pursuing a more fulfilled existence. This course examines ethical theories designed to both justify moral judgments, as well as apply these ethical theories to a selection of personal and social issues in the world today.

PHI 1013: Logic: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Studies effective thinking using language-oriented logic. Provides tools and develops skills for creative and critical thinking and the formal analysis of arguments. Emphasizes the development of decision-making and problem-solving.

PHI 1014: Comparative Religions: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Introduces the major religions of the Eastern and Western world. Covers Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Utilizes methods of religious studies to understand the historical development of each religious tradition as well its worldview and teachings. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH3

PHI 1015: World Religions-West: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Introduces students to religions of the Western World: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Utilizes the methods of religious studies to understand the historical development of each religious tradition in terms of communities, cultural context, and modern manifestations, paying particular attention to differences between sects, denominations, schools, and factions within each tradition. Focus will include the examination of the charismatic leaders, prophets, and narratives that inform the worldview of each tradition.

PHI 1016: World Religions-East: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Introduces the major religions of the Eastern World: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Utilizes the methods of religious studies to understand the historical development of each religious tradition in terms of communities, cultural context, and modern manifestations, paying particular attention to differences between sects, denominations, schools, and factions within each tradition. Focus will include the examination of the charismatic leaders, prophets, and narratives that inform the worldview of each tradition.

PHI 1041: Old Testament GT:AH3

Credits 3

Surveys the writings of the Old Testament. This course will also examine selections from the writings of the Ancient Near East, focusing on the interpretation of these texts in light of the historical and cultural setting from which they arose. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.

PHI 1042: New Testament: GT-AH3

Credits 3

This course surveys the literature of the early Christian era, from its inception to approximately 150 C.E. The New Testament as well as selected non-canonical writings from the period are examined. The course focuses on the interpretation of these texts in light of the cultural milieu from which they arose. Particular attention is paid to the influence of ancient literary conventions upon the Christian writers of this time. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.

PHI 2005: Business Ethics: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Examines major ethical theories and then applies ethical decision-making criteria to various moral issues and challenges in a business environment. This course will include issues such as job discrimination, worker’s rights, consumerism, advertising, whistleblowing, product safety, responsibility to the environment, as well as compassionate and fair responsibility to society.

PHI 2014: Philosophy of Religion: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Focuses on the critical analysis and evaluation of the fundamental concepts, ideas, and implications within religious worldviews. This course includes issues such as the nature of God, other conceptions of ultimate reality, arguments concerning God`s existence, the problem of evil and suffering, faith and reason, metaphysical foundations for ethics, the phenomenon of religious experience, and religious diversity.

PHI 2018: Environmental Ethics: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Analyzes theories of the value of the natural world. Topics may include the relation between scientific and moral principles; theories of the moral worth of persons, animals, plants, and other natural objects; historical, religious, and cultural influences on conceptions of nature; alternative accounts of human relationships and responsibilities to nature; and the connection between moral and political values and economic policies.

PHI 2020: Philosophy-Death and Dying: GT-AH3

Credits 3
Explores the major philosophical questions surrounding death and dying, the metaphysical arguments for and against the existence of the soul, life after bodily death, the major ethical theories and their relation to issues of physician-assisted suicide, care for the dying, the grieving process, death as expressed in aesthetics and contemporary society, as well as the existential contributions concerning meaning of life and the meaning of death.