8 courses with the subject PHIL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHIL 1200Introduction to Philosophy3
| Lecture This course is an introduction to philosophical inquiry. The student will gain an introduction to the major ideas, arguments, and philosophers in various categories of philosophical thinking, such as epistemology, ontology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, political and social philosophy, human nature, and aesthetics. From this foundation of basic ideas, the course guides students to examine their personal views by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and analysis while respecting differing opinions. MNTC Goal Area(s): 02, 06
| Lecture This survey course in classical, Medieval, and modern philosophical thinking examines some ways in which historically humans have questioned reality, religious traditions, and knowledge, and how they have acted on those philosophical perspectives. The course offers topical backgrounds of philosophy while providing the tools to make reasonable, rational, and logical assessments of issues, especially issues related to ethical decisions. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06 MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG
| Lecture This course is intended to provide students the opportunity to develop better critical thinking skills. These skills will assist students in thinking critically within society. Students will be introduced to inductive and deductive arguments and will learn about argument forms, parts of arguments, how to distinguish good arguments from poor arguments. Special attention will be paid to informal fallacies and common reasoning errors. The course will present many examples of both classical and everyday arguments for students to assess as they develop their critical thinking skills. MNTC Goal Area(s): 02, 06
| Lecture This course is intended to provide students the opportunity to explore classic questions about human nature and the answers that different cultures and thinkers have come to throughout history. Students will read works from the traditions of Confucianism, Upanishadic Hinduism, the Christian theological tradition, and Muslim tradition, as well as classic works in the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. Evaluation of examples from modern brain science and psychology will allow students to learn about how the brain shapes our ideas of ourselves and the world around us. Finally, the course will examine issues such as the impact of technology and the informational revolution on human living and the prospect of human development in the future. This course is intended for all students. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 08
| Lecture This course applies a variety of ethical and philosophical theories to contemporary issues regarding the environment and how humans interact with the environment. A variety of ecological issues will be discussed from a variety of philosophical perspectives, and human responsibility and potential solutions will be analyzed. The influence of ethical and philosophical theories on aspects of these problems and their solutions will also be examined. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 10 P a g e | 112
| Lecture This course will focus on the relationship of reason and religious belief. Topics and issues that may be explored include: religious experience, theistic arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, religious language, religious pluralism, the relationship of religion to science, the relationship between religion and morality, feminist concerns within religion, as well as a comparison of Western theism and Eastern religions. No previous knowledge/experience of philosophy is required. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 08
| Lecture Ethics, utilizing the foundation of moral thinking dating back to ancient classical cultures, examines the thinking of the great philosophers throughout history and applies these concepts to contemporary problems facing today's citizens. Current moral issues are examined using the traditional concepts of good, right, duty, and responsibility. Using ethical theories such as Utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontological ethics, and the thinking of philosophers such as Mencius, Rawls, Kant, Aristotle, Bentham, Floridi, and others, the student will develop a perspective for dealing with today's moral dilemmas. Students apply critical thinking skills to the development of their own value-based view of the world. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 09
| Lecture This course is an introduction to a central part of Philosophy: the philosophical study of reasoning. Studies include the function and uses of language, the distinction between deductive and inductive arguments, methods for symbolizing and evaluating the validity of deductive arguments, and the detection of informal fallacies. Students will gain practical skills used in the evaluation of inductive and deductive arguments, which are applicable at all levels of reasoning. MNTC Goal Area(s): 02, 04
