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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Pharmacy Practice

  
  • PHPR 47000 - Nonprescription Drugs


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A consideration of nonprescription drugs, health-care devices, and accessories to prepare the student to deal authoritatively with the self-medicating public. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHPR 48000 - Self-Care Pharmacy Practice I


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is specifically designed to provide students with guided experience in the application of knowledge acquired during previous professional course work to the solution of simulated problems which occur in self-care pharmacy practice. Specifically, the course is designed to introduce students to the appropriate selection and use of nonprescription medications and devices for the treatment of minor health complaints by patients. A principle theme throughout the course is that the solution of all self-care problems (i.e., regardless of the context in which they occur) involves the application of the same basic problem solving process. Course activities, readings and homework assignments will provide students with illustration of how the problem solving process can be applied to specific self-care situations that arise in practice. Active learning methods will be employed to involve students directly in the actual application of this process to simulated practice problems. Topics: Colds, Coughs, Allergies. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHPR 48300 - Self-Care Pharmacy Practice III


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is specifically designed to provide students with guided experience in the application of knowledge acquired during previous professional course work to the solution of simulated problems which occur in self-care pharmacy practice. Specifically, the course is designed to introduce students to the appropriate selection and use of nonprescription medications and devices for the treatment of minor health complaints by patients. A principle theme throughout the course is that the solution of all self-care problems (i.e., regardless of the context in which they occur) involves the application of the same basic problem solving process. Course activities, readings and homework assignments will provide students with illustration of how the problem solving process can be applied to specific self-care situations that arise in practice. Active learning methods will be employed to involve students directly in the actual application of this process to simulated practice problems. Topics: Dermatology. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHPR 48600 - Beyond Ecstacy: A Guide To Street Drugs


    Credit Hours: 1.00. The goal of the course is to augment the students’ knowledge about commonly used street drugs including: pharmacology and mechanisms of action; interactions and adverse effects; law enforcement and policing; available support and treatment for addiction, abuse, and misuse; and the role of pharmacists. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHPR 48700 - Dietary Supplements


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is intended to expose students in health care fields to dietary supplement use. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHPR 48800 - Interdisciplinary Case Discussions In Health Care


    Credit Hours: 1.00. The goal of this course is to facilitate communication among future healthcare professionals with the intent of strengthening their future interdisciplinary relationships. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHPR 49000 - Special Topics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An honors course to be used to relate to, and supplement, an existing course. Subject matter and method of approach individually directed by instructor. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHPR 49800 - Hospital Pharmacy Operations I


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Four weeks of supervised, objective-based, on-site experience in selected Indiana pharmacies in health care institutions serving primarily institutionalized patients. Depending on the experience site assignment, most students will be participating in locations away from the West Lafayette Campus, requiring relocation to that area. Completion of non-experiential pharmacy curriculum is required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • PHPR 49900 - Community Pharmacy Operations I


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Four weeks of supervised, objective-based, on-site experience in selected Indiana community pharmacies and health care entities serving primarily ambulatory patients. Depending on the experience site assignment, most students will be participating in locations away from the West Lafayette Campus, requiring relocation to that area. Completion of non-experiential pharmacy curriculum. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHPR 59000 - Special Topics In Pharmacy Practice


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Special topics in selected areas of pharmacy practice. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHPR 59800 - Introduction To Research


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Qualified students will undertake a project in an area of pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy, or pharmacy administration under a member of the graduate faculty. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHPR 66400 - Research Techniques And Proposal Development


    Credit Hours: 2.00. A consideration of current trends in pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy administration relating to healthcare services and systems. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHPR 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHPR 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Philosophy

  
  • PHIL 11000 - Introduction To Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The basic problems and types of philosophy, with special emphasis on the problems of knowledge and the nature of reality. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CTL:ISH 1050 Introduction To Philosophy
  
  • PHIL 11100 - Ethics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the nature of moral value and obligation. Topics such as the following will be considered: different conceptions of the good life and standards of right conduct; the relation of nonmoral and moral goodness; determinism, free will, and the problem of moral responsibility; the political and social dimensions of ethics; the principles and methods of moral judgment. Readings will be drawn both from contemporary sources and from the works of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Butler, Hume, Kant, and J. S. Mill. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CTL:ISH 1051 Ethics
  
  • PHIL 11400 - Global Moral Issues


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A systematic and representative examination of significant contemporary moral problems with a focus on global issues such as international justice, poverty and foreign aid, nationalism and patriotism, just war, population and the environment, human rights, gender equality, and national self-determination. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHIL 12000 - Critical Thinking


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to develop reasoning skills and analytic abilities, based on an understanding of the rules or forms as well as the content of good reasoning. This course will cover moral and scientific reasoning, in addition to ordinary problem solving. This course is intended primarily for students with nontechnical backgrounds. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 15000 - Principles Of Logic


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A first course in formal deductive logic; mechanical and other procedures for distinguishing good arguments from bad. Truth-tables and proofs for sentential (Boolean) connectives, followed by quantificational logic with relations. Although metatheoretic topics are treated, the emphasis is on methods. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 20600 - Philosophy Of Religion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course encourages critical reflection on traditional and contemporary views about God and other religious ideas. Topics include arguments for God’s existence, the problem of evil, understanding the divine attributes, miracles, religious pluralism, and life after death. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CTL:ISH 1052 Philosophy Of Religion
  
  • PHIL 21900 - Introduction To Existentialism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of both the philosophical and more literary writings of the existentialist movement. Readings will be chosen from among the following writers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Marcel, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, Jaspers, de Beauvoir, Ortega, and Merleau-Ponty. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 22100 - Introduction To Philosophy Of Science


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the scope and methods of science and to theories of its historical development. Topics include scientific revolutions, theories of scientific method, the nature of scientific discovery, explanation, and the role of values in scientific change. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 22500 - Philosophy And Gender


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the beliefs, assumptions, and values found in traditional and contemporary philosophical analyses of women. A range of feminist approaches to knowledge, values, and social issues will be introduced. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 23000 - Religions Of The East


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (REL 23000 ) A study of the history, teachings, and present institutions of the religions of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. This will include Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, and Zoroastrianism. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHIL 23100 - Religions Of The West


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (REL 23100 ) A comparative study of the origins, institutions, and theologies of the three major Western religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHIL 24000 - Social And Political Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of some major social and political philosophers from Plato to contemporary authors. Issues such as justice, rights and freedom, community, and the “globalized” future will be considered. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 24200 - Philosophy, Culture, And The African American Experience


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The purpose of this course is to consider African American based or inspired conceptions of Western philosophy and new visions of what it is to do philosophy sensitive to culturally rooted diversity. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 26000 - Philosophy And Law


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A discussion of philosophical issues in the law: a critical examination of such basic concepts in law as property, civil liberty, punishment, right, contract, crime and responsibility; and a survey of some main philosophical theories about the nature and justification of legal systems. Readings will be drawn from both law and philosophy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 27000 - Biomedical Ethics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the moral problems raised by developments in medicine and the biomedical sciences. Topics include abortion, reproductive technologies, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, experiments involving human subjects, and health care delivery. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 27500 - The Philosophy Of Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the principal theories concerning the nature, function, and value of the arts from classical times to the present. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 28000 - Ethics And Animals


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration through the study of major historical and contemporary philosophical writings of basic moral issues as they apply to our treatment of animals. Rational understanding of the general philosophical problems raised by practices such as experimentation on animals or meat-eating will be emphasized. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 29000 - Environmental Ethics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to philosophical issues surrounding debates about the environment and our treatment of it. Topics may include endangered species, “deep ecology,” the scope and limits of cost-benefit analyses, and duties to future generations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 29300 - Selected Topics In Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A critical examination of some special topic or topics in philosophy. Details concerning topics selected for treatment in a given semester may be obtained in advance from the Department of Philosophy. Sections of this course may sometimes be initiated by students upon petition to the department. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 30100 - History Of Ancient Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Greek philosophy from its beginning in the Milesian school through the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 30200 - History Of Medieval Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the main trends and figures of medieval philosophy, with an emphasis on metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Readings (in English translation) may include Augustine, Boethius, Avicenna, Anselm, Abelard, Maimonides, Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham and Suarez. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 30300 - History Of Modern Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Concentrates on the major philosophical writers from the Renaissance to the beginning of the nineteenth century: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant. Some in other areas, e.g., Galileo, Newton, Calvin, are also considered. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 30400 - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the major movements and directions of nineteenth-century philosophy, including such figures as Hegel, Comte, Mach, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill, Royce and Peirce. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 30600 - Twentieth-Century Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical examination of the main currents of contemporary philosophical thought, such as pragmatism, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism, and other recent developments. The course will cover selected works of such philosophers as Russell, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Sartre. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 31900 - Classic And Contemporary Marxism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A systematic exposition and analysis of principal elements in the philosophy of Marx, followed by a survey of some important twentieth-century writers in the Marxian tradition (e.g., Lenin, Lukacs, Marcuse, the Yugoslav Praxis group, etc.). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 35000 - Philosophy And Probability


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces the student to mathematical probability and its philosophical applications. Topics may include theories of probability, Hume’s problem of induction, Goodman’s paradox, and the foundations of scientific reasoning. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • PHIL 40200 - Studies In Medieval Christian Thought


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of medieval (and patristic) philosophical theology. Issues include the nature and existence of God, religious language, and doctrines such as the Trinity, Incarnation, and Atonement. Readings (in English translation) will include, among others, Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, and Aquinas. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 40600 - Intermediate Philosophy Of Religion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of some important problems such as the existence of God, the problem of evil, immortality, or the nature of religion. Or the religious philosophy of some significant thinkers such as Buber, Berdyaev, Tillich, Barth, Maritain, or Chardin may form the content of the course. Subject matter may vary. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 41100 - Modern Ethical Theories


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the major controversies in the history of modern ethics, including: the place of reason in ethics, the basis of moral obligation, and the relation between science and morals. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 42100 - Philosophy Of Science


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of central issues in philosophy of science. Topics include theories of explanation, confirmation, reduction, laws, the status of theoretical entities, and the epistemological foundations of scientific theories. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 42400 - Recent Ethical Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A philosophical examination of significant issues in recent ethical theory and metaethics, such as the nature of value, obligation, virtue, rationality, moral knowledge, the status of ethical sentences, practical applications, and the relationship between ethics and science or religion. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 42500 - Metaphysics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A concentrated investigation of some of the basic problems concerning essence, existence, time, space, substance, causality, permanence, and change. Readings and discussions will center on representative metaphysical thinkers. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 43000 - Modern Religious Thought


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of important philosophical and theological issues that arose in the modern period. Possible topics include the role of religion in the modern secular state, religious toleration and civic equality, and the historicism of Scripture. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 43100 - Contemporary Religious Thought


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration of the work of major nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophers of religion and theologians such as Kierkegaard, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, and others. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 43200 - Theory Of Knowledge


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of selected texts on knowledge and rationality. Topics such as the following will be considered: foundationalism, coherentism, internalism, externalism, skepticism, contextualism, empiricism, rationalism, analyses of epistemic concepts, and the Gettier problem. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 43500 - Philosophy Of Mind


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of some central issues in the philosophy of mind. Attention is given to such topics as the knowledge of other minds, the relation between mind and body, the nature of persons, and the analysis of certain relevant concepts such as action, emotion, and perception. Readings are selected primarily from the writings of contemporary philosophers. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 45000 - Metalogic


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to metatheoretic studies of formal axiomatic systems. Basic set theory is developed for use as a tool in studying the propositional calculus. Further topics include many-valued logics and metatheory for modal or predicate logic. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 46500 - Philosophy Of Language


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of some of the central issues in the philosophy of language, such as meaning, reference, truth, propositions, and speech acts. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 49000 - Advanced Topics In Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced study of a significant topic in philosophy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 50100 - Studies In Greek Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The subject-matter will alternate between the intensive study of some fairly specific topic in Greek philosophy (e.g., Plato’s theory of knowledge, Aristotle’s ethics, etc.) and a general study of either the philosophy of Plato or the philosophy of Aristotle. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 50200 - Studies In Medieval Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of some central topics in the thought of major medieval philosophers. Subject matter will vary. Philosophers most often studied are Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Ockham. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 50300 - Studies In Early Modern Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed study of either: 1) one or more central philosophical themes or 2) one or more major figures (typically, but not restricted to, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and/or Kant) in the early modern period. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 50500 - Islamic And Jewish Philosophy And The Classical Tradition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of representative texts and issues in medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy. Possible topics include the commensurability of philosophy and (revealed) law, the creation or eternity of the world, the nature of prophecy, the human good, the nature of God, and divine language. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 50600 - Advanced Philosophy Of Religion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed critical investigation of some central problems in a philosophical approach to religion. Readings will be selected from leading representatives of traditional theism and various contemporary schools. The thought of the representative thinkers will be analyzed, discussed, and critically evaluated. The problems discussed will be selected from the existence of God, the problem of evil, freedom and determinism, the problem of immortality, and the nature of religious language. Variable content. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 50700 - Recent American Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed examination of the central doctrines of one or more of the following six American philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, and Whitehead. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 51000 - Phenomenology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed, critical examination of some major issue(s) in phenomenology. Attention will be given to either the historical development or contemporary relevance of phenomenological philosophy. Readings will be drawn from the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 51400 - Twentieth-Century Analytical Philosophy I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The origins of contemporary philosophical analysis. An examination of the most important philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, as well as the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Need not be followed by PHIL 51500 . Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 51500 - Twentieth-Century Analytical Philosophy II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of philosophical analysis through logical positivism and the various forms of linguistic philosophy. An examination of some of the important writings of Moore, Ayer, Ryle, Wisdom, Austin, and the later Wittgenstein. Need not be preceded by PHIL 51400 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 52000 - Existentialism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed exploration and examination of the existentialist movement in modern thought, including its historical roots, its philosophical formulations, and its influence and expression in and relation to art, literature, psychology, social criticism, and religion. Readings will be from at least some of the major existentialists: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Sartre. In addition, texts from existentialist thinkers in other areas will be used. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 52400 - Contemporary Ethical Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical review of twentieth-century developments in ethical and value theory, with particular reference to the dispute between utilitarianism and deontological theories, and to the problem of justification. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 52500 - Studies In Metaphysics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive and critical examination of one or more of the basic problems of ontology and cosmology, such as substance, existence, causality, change, time, space, teleology, freedom, and universals. Variable content. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 53000 - Deconstructionist And Postmodernist Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the main currents of deconstructionist and postmodernist thought in the latter part of the twentieth century. Texts to be studied will be selected from the writings of Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deleuze, Guattari, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Rorty. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 53200 - Studies In Theory Of Knowledge


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive examination of selected problems concerning the nature of human knowledge, its scope and limits, its relation to sense-perception and memory. Variable content. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 53500 - Studies In Philosophy Of Mind


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of select topics in the philosophy of mind such as the explanation of human behavior, knowledge of other minds, the relation between mind and body, and the nature of persons. Variable content. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 54000 - Studies In Social And Political Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed study of one or more important concepts in social or political philosophy, such as natural rights, revolution, law, freedom, justice, or political obligation. Variable content. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 54200 - Rationality And Relativism: African American Perspectives


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines philosophical issues of relativism and rationalism. Considers arguments by particular African American authors concerning relativist or rationalist approaches to the nature of social entities. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 54500 - Recent Analytic Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of contemporary developments in analytic philosophy, with emphasis on major issues relevant to the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. The course will cover such figures as W.V.O. Quine and Saul Kripke, and such problems as analyticity and necessity, ontological relativity, and the definition of knowledge. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 55000 - Advanced Symbolic Logic


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the properties of formal systems, including consistency and completeness theorems for the propositional calculus, the first order predicate calculus, and various modal logics, as well as a brief consideration of Godel’s incompleteness theorem. Students who have taken MA 58500  should not take this course; PHIL 65000 is more appropriate. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 55100 - Philosophy Of The Natural Sciences


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of issues and theories in contemporary philosophy of science. Variable content. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 55200 - Philosophy Of The Social Sciences


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration of the nature of the concepts in the social sciences, and a study of the ways in which they have been and are employed. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 55500 - Critical Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of either the historical development or the contemporary relevance of critical theory. Primary texts may be selected from the “old” Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, Fromm) or from “new” critical theory (Habermas, Wellmer, Honneth, Benhabib, and others). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 56000 - Studies In Eastern Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. One of the traditional areas of Eastern philosophy (Indian, Buddhist, Chinese) will be selected for an intensive historical study. Readings will be from English translations of the writings of representative Eastern philosophers. Variable content. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 57500 - Problems In Esthetics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive examination of some of the characteristic questions of contemporary esthetic theory. Variable content. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 57600 - Philosophy And Literary Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ENGL 57600 ) Explores the interchanges between philosophy and literary theory that animate such areas as hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, feminism, African-American studies, postmodern theory, and cultural studies. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 58000 - Proseminar In Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed primarily for majors in philosophy who have already successfully completed six hours in philosophy. Other students may be admitted to the course with the special consent of the instructor in charge. Topic to be selected by the department. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 59000 - Directed Reading In Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A reading course directed by the instructor in whose particular field of specialization the content of the reading falls. Approval of each reading project must be secured from the department. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 60100 - Special Topics In Ancient Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed critical analysis of special problems or texts in ancient philosophy. Prerequisite: PHIL 50100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 61000 - Seminar In Recent Continental Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive, critical examination of some of the current modes of thought in recent continental philosophy, including phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and postmodernism. Selected writings from representative figures. Topics and texts will vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: PHIL 51000  or PHIL 52000 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 62400 - Seminar In Ethics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of some persistent problems of ethics, metaethics, and theory of action such as: intrinsic goods, ends and means, the concepts of utility, justice, and duty; facts and values, justification, ethical relativism, free will and blame-worthiness, belief, and action. Emphasis will be on contemporary discussions. Variable subject matter. Prerequisite: PHIL 52400 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 66500 - Philosophy Of Language


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to some of the main concepts and problems in the philosophy of language, such as meaning, reference, and private languages, through readings in the chief contributors to the field. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in Philospohy. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • PHIL 67200 - Philosophy Of Logic


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of some of the more fundamental logical and philosophical concepts. Topics may include: the analysis of singular and general propositions, the sense-reference distinction, predication, singular terms, assertion, intentional contexts, and truth. Prerequisite: PHIL 45000  or PHIL 55000  or PHIL 65000. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 68000 - Seminar In Philosophy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive course for graduate students majoring or minoring in philosophy. The content of the seminar will be determined in accordance with the needs and interests of the students. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours at the graduate level in Philosophy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 68300 - Studies In Continental Rationalism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of Descartes, Spinoza, or Leibniz, or of certain themes and ideas that played an important role in the development of their philosophies. Variable subject matter. Prerequisite: PHIL 30300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 68400 - Studies In British Empiricism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, or of certain themes and ideas that played an important role in the development of their philosophies. Variable subject matter. Prerequisite: PHIL 30300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PHIL 68500 - The Philosophy Of Kant


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will be concerned with the critical philosophy as a whole. Primary emphasis, however, will be on the theories of knowledge and metaphysics as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason. Lesser attention will be paid to Kant’s ethics and the principles of judgment as time permits. Prerequisite: PHIL 30300 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • PHIL 69800 - Research MA Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MA Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PHIL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Physical Education Skills

  
  • PES 11100 - Lifetime Fitness


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Provides students opportunities to assess levels of physical fitness, develop an exercise plan, and experience activities designed to improve cardiovascular condition, strength, and flexibility. Presents current findings and provides laboratory experiences regarding techniques of initiation, maintaining, and evaluating personal fitness. For non-H&K majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PES 11200 - Aquatic Movement Forms


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in aquatic movement forms. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: beginning swimming; intermediate swimming; advanced swimming; synchronized swimming. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PES 11400 - Exercise And Conditioning


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in various types of exercise programs. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: body conditioning; exercise and fitness; exercise to music; jogging and running; swimnastics; relaxation techniques; weight training; exercise and principles of weight control. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PES 11500 - Individual And Dual Movement Forms I


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in individual and dual movement forms conducted in an indoor setting. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: badminton; billiards; bowling; fencing; judo; karate; beginning gymnastics; intermediate gymnastics; squash; racquetball; yoga; kung fu; personal defense. Special fee required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PES 11600 - Individualized And Dual Movement Forms II


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in individual and dual movement forms conducted mainly in outdoor settings. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: beginning golf; intermediate golf; advanced golf; bicycling; beginning tennis; intermediate tennis; advanced tennis; track and field. Special fee required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PES 11700 - Team Movement Forms


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in team movement forms. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: basketball; field hockey; lacrosse; softball; soccer; power volleyball I; power volleyball II. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • PES 11800 - Horseback Riding


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and practice in hunter seat equitation. Class meets off campus, and students are expected to provide their own transportation. Following is a partial list of offerings: beginning; intermediate; advanced; combined training. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PES 12000 - Officiating


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Theory and practice in officiating movement forms. Students select from the activities listed in the current schedule of classes. Following is a partial list of activities: basketball; field hockey; gymnastics; swimming; softball; volleyball; track and field. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • PES 13000 - Lifeguard Training


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Knowledge, skill practice, and evaluation of rescue techniques leading toward Red Cross lifeguarding certification. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
 

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