15 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.
This course offers students an introduction to central questions of philosophy. It invites students to explore philosophical questions about morality, personal identity, free will and determinism, knowledge, the existence of God, and the meaning of life, among others.
Ethics is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with how we ought to live and what kind of person we ought to be. This course is an introduction to ethics. It will explore different approaches and answers to a number of ethical questions, such as: What is the good life? What makes an action morally right or wrong? Can we really know what is morally rght from what is morally wrong? In addition, this course will examine present-day ethical issues in connection with central course questions.
The aim of this course is to introduce essential concepts and skills needed for understanding, constructing, and evaluating arguments effectively. Attention will be given to arguments that appear in everyday contexts. Central questions to be discussed include: What distiguishes an argument from a simple rhetroical tactic? What makes an argument a good one, as well as how to different types of arguments meet these standards? In addressing these questions, this course will also cover common errors in reasoning and ways to avoid them.
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that transformed the cultural, political, and scientific landscape of the Western civilization. This course examines key issues and arguments from the period and their continuing influence on modern thought. Among the topics to be covered include: religious toleration, progress and reason, science and religion, the mind and knowledge, beauty and taste, education and human development, global order, and human rights.
This course introduces various ethical systems and their criteria for ethical decision making. Moral conflict, implicit and explicit rules, ethical ambiguity, and areas of specific moral choice will be considered.
This course is an examination of several important topics in the philosophy of religion, with a focus on monotheism: the belief in one all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good creator God. Topics to be covered include: classic arguments for God’s existence, the rationality of religious faith in the absence of proof, the evidential value of relgious expericence, the problem of evil, and the problem of divine hiddenness.
This course is a study of the way in which human nature has been defined through the ages from the early Greek philosophers to modern interpretations with special emphasis on modern psychological, philosophical, and religious theory. Consideration will be given to the implications of such concepts for contemporary life.
After a brief discussion of biblical ethics and moral theory, this course will focus on selected social issues such as economic injustice, capital punishment, sexual ethics, and hunger.
This course will look closely at images of faith in popular culture. Students will look at movies and television, listen to music, read fiction, view art, and examine sports to see where ideas of the divine might be evident.
This course explores the complex ethical questions and concerns raised by the technological advancements being made in medicine, genetics, and cybernetics. The role of futuristic ethics, anticipating the bioethical issues likely to arise in the future and addressing those issues preemptively, will be considered.
This course examines selected problems in recent philosophical literature such as meaning, perception, knowledge, truth, and freedom. Readings from twentieth-century European philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, and Foucault will be included.
This course surveys the American religious experience from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the various historic forms of Christianity and emphasizing the role of religion in American social, cultural, intellectual, and political development.
Taken during the final spring semester of a student’s undergraduate career, this course is designed to assess students’ grasp of skills for the study of philosophy and religious studies, as well as their critical thinking skills. The course will culminate in a senior thesis that will be defended orally before the class, Philosophy and Religious Studies faculty, and interested members of the campus community.
This course involves productive, contributing learning experiences in one or more off-campus settings. The student will complete a portfolio of activities and learning experiences approved by the supervisor in the setting. Application for internships will be made at least six weeks before the end of the semester prior to the semester of internship. Internship/Practicum fee applies.
Fourth-year students may pursue a systematic reading program, laboratory project, or field study dealing with a selected issue in the area of religion or with problems of an interdisciplinary scope.
Source: The University of Tennessee Southern's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
