• PHIL 1305 LOGIC & QUANTITATIVE REASONING

    PHIL 1305 Logic and Quantitative Reasoning
    Prerequisite(s): None
    This course introduces students to practical problem solving through logical deduction and induction, probability, and proofs of validity in formal systems. This course may include existential quantifiers, sets, and functions. In addition, this course trains students to evaluate argument salience through informal logic and consider critical thinking values such as objectivity and truth.

  • PHIL 1313 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

    PHIL 1313 Introduction to Philosophy
    Prerequisite(s): None
    This course is an introduction to philosophy and an adventure of the human soul. Across this journey, students will encounter towering thinkers – voices that have shaped western civilization and continue to shape the world today. Its central questions are timeless: Does God exist? What is a human person? What is virtue, justice, truth, and beauty? The verse at the heart of this course is Proverbs 9:10: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” The curriculum, grounded in the Christian tradition, will familiarize students with the principal problems of philosophy and the principal solutions that have been proposed in response to them.

  • PHIL 3323 ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

    PHIL 3323 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
    Prerequisite(s): None
    A study of the historical development of Western philosophy from its early beginnings in Greece to the end of the Middle Ages.

  • PHIL 3350 PHILOSOPHY OF TRAGEDY

    PHIL 3350 Philosophy of Tragedy
    Prerequisite(s): None
    An analysis and evaluation of the tragic worldview as expressed in classic literature and philosophies of life. Topics considered could include the role of fate, free will, luck, and providence in moral responsibility, virtue, and happiness. Works considered could include the philosophies of Aristotle, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, alongside the dramas of Sophocles and Shakespeare. Special attention will be paid to the problem of evil and the question of whether tragedy is compatible with the Christian worldview.

  • PHIL 3360 MEDICAL HUMANITIES

    PHIL 3360 Medical Humanities
    Prerequisite(s): None
    A course designed to introduce students to medical humanities. The course is an interdisciplinary approach to looking at medical ethics and culture that will focus on the humanities and especially philosophy. Subjects to be covered may include the concept of personhood at the beginning and end of life, the arts and medicine, the historical development of medicine, theology of medicine, and the philosophy of science and medicine.

  • PHIL 3365 MEDICAL ETHICS

    PHIL 3365 Medical Ethics
    Prerequisite(s): None
    This course will look at debates in medical ethics. Topics may include abortion, euthanasia, medical testing and research, scarcity and distribution of health care, genetics, privacy, and reproductive technology.

  • PHIL 4323 ETHICS

    PHIL 4323 Ethics
    Prerequisite(s): None
    A course in which the major ethical systems and their theories of value and conduct are studied critically and evaluated from a Christian point of view.

  • PHIL 4333 AESTHETICS

    PHIL 4333 Aesthetics
    Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1313
    Examination of texts from the history of philosophy focusing on the questions of beauty, appropriateness, and value of both art and nature.

  • PHIL 4359 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    PHIL 4359 Political Philosophy
    Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1313
    Examination of texts from the history of philosophy focusing on the relationship between the individual and collective neighbor. In this course, the great philosophers guide us as we wrestle with questions concerning the polis, state, just and unjust government, and the law.

  • PHIL 5350 ETHICS

    PHIL 5350 Ethics
    Prerequisite(s): None
    This course will focus on the nature of the good and the right, and various accounts of these fundamental aspects of moral philosophy, both classical and contemporary. Attention will be given to theistic and Christian accounts of morality, such as natural law theory and divine command theory.

  • PHIL 6310 AESTHETICS

    PHIL 6310 Aesthetics
    Prerequisite(s): None
    This course will analyze and assess theories of beauty, value and the nature and meaning of art. Particular attention will be given to the role that belief in God has in the creative process and the meaning and motivation for artistic creation.

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