6 courses with the subject PHI, 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.
PHI 80012: Transformative Learning and Adult Education2
This colloquium introduces the Omega Graduate School (OGS) philosophy of education. The course orients students to key themes in adult education: the role of adult development in learning, differences between andragogy and pedagogy, the importance of self-directedness in adult learning, and the consistency of transformative learning theory with the OGS mission. This OGS transformative learning study promotes critical reflection for transcending barriers to personal growth and social impact.
An examination of Christian approaches to ethical systems and a survey of ethical theories. Ethics is confronted directly by the challenges posed by a postmodern global society. In order to promote ethical orthopraxis by the student, the student explores the move from ethical theory to ethical practice.
PHI 80522: Faith-Learning Integration and Interdisciplinary Studies2
This foundational colloquium builds the case for and surveys approaches to the integration of faith and learning for professional Christian scholarship. The relationship of religious perspectives as a form of disciplinary learning is then applied to the field of interdisciplinary studies as a basis for research in the sociological integration of religion and society.
PHI 81522: History of the Integration of Religion and Society2
History of Integration of Religion and Society is a course that provides a historical perspective on and illustrates models/methods of the integration of religion and society. Modern secular historical revisionism is corrected by tracing the social impact of Jesus and Christianity in multiple ways, i.e., advancing human rights, abolishing slavery, improving morality, advancing education, art, science, and democracy, and other areas of social concern. The course challenges students to change their world by integrating their faith with society.
This course introduces contextualization for social change as a systematic analytical tool for interpreting social problems within broader social structures. Students employ levels of structural analysis (Macro, Meso, and Micro) to evaluate the context of social problems. The course emphasizes the development of Verstehen and the application of the Thomas Theorem to evaluate how subjective "definitions of the situation" and "conditions of choosing" produce objective social consequences. The course also considers a faith-based perspective on social context that accounts for both divine potential and systemic brokenness. Ultimat
This colloquy examines the nature, function, and methodologies for understanding and developing orthodoxy (right belief) and orthopraxis (right practice). Orthopraxis applies a Christian worldview to all of life, culture, and vocation. Within the framework of historic ecumenical (unity among the churches) orthodoxy, the seminar closes the gap between professed and operational beliefs in personal and professional spheres of life. This course is designed to develop interdisciplinary Christian orthodoxy and to improve orthopraxis for transforming personal and vocation growth.
