*Intro to Logic

Develops formal and informal reasoning skills, introduces deductive logic via statement logic, analyzes arguments and introduces scientific and inductive reasoning, reviews common fallacies and methods for evaluating arguments.

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*Intro to Wrld Phil & Religion

Introduces students to religious traditions and their views about reality, knowledge, and value. Surveys Eastern philosophies and religions, the Abrahamic monotheistic traditions, and Alaska Native and other Indigenous Traditions. Emphasizes beliefs, norms, practices, and contemporary issues.

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No Distance Learning courses available.

*Intro to Philosophy

Emphasizes problems of knowledge, reality, good and evil from a global philosophical perspective.

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*Ancient & Medieval Philosophy

Primarily surveys Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic era through the late Middle Ages. Traces development of scientific, metaphysical, epistemological and ethical thought with emphasis on pivotal historical figures and debates.

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No Distance Learning courses available.

*Ethics

Introduces major theories in metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics, and the arguments of important moral philosophers from Euro-American and non-Euro-American traditions. Emphasizes critical reasoning, as well as evaluation and analysis of arguments. Includes the application of ethical theory to contemporary moral issues, such as distributive justice, environmental and animal issues, abortion, terrorism, and euthanasia.

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Traditional

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No Distance Learning courses available.

Biomedical Ethics

Explores current bioethical issues affecting the delivery of health care services in Alaska and beyond. Explores theories of ethics and related principles as a basis for professional decision-making and public policy determination. Focuses on the process of ethical inquiry and its relevance for contemporary health practices, research and education.

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Traditional

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*Professional Ethics

Focuses on the duties of professionals to their clients and society, and examines the dilemmas that are created when these duties come in conflict with one another and with the duties of general morality. Uses case studies highlighting issues in engineering, information technology, law, medicine, journalism and other professions.

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Truth & Reality

Focuses on the topics of existence, universals and particulars, individuals and classes, change and the persistence of objects and persons, knowledge and belief, internalism and externalism, perception, materialism, truth, and reality. Registration Restrictions: Junior or senior standing

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Aesthetics

Investigates the nature of art, beauty and the creative process from both an historical and theoretical perspective, utilizing Western and global philosophies of art and beauty. Issues concerning the relationship between art and ethics will be examined, including controversies regarding art and pornography, art and censorship, and art and ownership.

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Traditional

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No Distance Learning courses available.

Topics in Contemporary Phil

An intensive and detailed study of a topic in contemporary philosophy in a seminar format. Special Note: May be repeated twice with a change in subtitle. Registration Restrictions: Junior or senior standing

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Blended

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No Distance Learning courses available.

*Intro to Logic

Develops formal and informal reasoning skills, introduces deductive logic via statement logic, analyzes arguments and introduces scientific and inductive reasoning, reviews common fallacies and methods for evaluating arguments.

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Blackboard

*Intro to Philosophy

Emphasizes problems of knowledge, reality, good and evil from a global philosophical perspective.

(Click on an individual CRN for more information on each offering)

Blackboard

*Ethics

Introduces major theories in metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics, and the arguments of important moral philosophers from Euro-American and non-Euro-American traditions. Emphasizes critical reasoning, as well as evaluation and analysis of arguments. Includes the application of ethical theory to contemporary moral issues, such as distributive justice, environmental and animal issues, abortion, terrorism, and euthanasia.

(Click on an individual CRN for more information on each offering)

Blackboard

Biomedical Ethics

Explores current bioethical issues affecting the delivery of health care services in Alaska and beyond. Explores theories of ethics and related principles as a basis for professional decision-making and public policy determination. Focuses on the process of ethical inquiry and its relevance for contemporary health practices, research and education.

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Blackboard

*Professional Ethics

Focuses on the duties of professionals to their clients and society, and examines the dilemmas that are created when these duties come in conflict with one another and with the duties of general morality. Uses case studies highlighting issues in engineering, information technology, law, medicine, journalism and other professions.

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