16 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.
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will introduce some of the themes, works, figures, and topics in the Western philosophical tradition. It will explore questions involving value, human nature, knowledge, and rationality. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will introduce students to inductive and deductive logic. The course trains students to recognize, evaluate, and construct arguments. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will introduce students to the philosophical and theoretical dimensions of pressing social and ethical problems. For example, we may discuss the nature of social inequality, our moral relations to animals and the environment, the complex role of technology in contemporary life, and our individual and collective responsibilities in understanding and solving these problems. We will address these and related issues by reading a variety of historical and contemporary philosophical texts. Works of literature, cultural criticism, and popular media may also be assigned to connect these social and moral theories to contemporary issues and human experience. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee Description unavailable. (As Needed) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course has a variable subject matter. It involves in-depth examination of some timely topic, movement, problem, thinker, or writer of philosophy. (As Needed) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course has a variable subject matter. It involves in-depth examination of some timely topic, movement, problem, thinker, or writer of philosophy. It is offered every other year and is repeatable for up to nine (9) credits. (As Needed) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course focuses on first-order symbolic logic and its application to natural languages, truth, functions, and quantification. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines epistemology, accounts of knowledge. Topics include belief, opinion, justification, common sense, faith, skepticism, truth, and error. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course is a study of theories about the aims and methods of science in the context of its historical development. The study is grounded in examples from the history of science that illustrate different views about science. Topics may include the relations between the sciences, between science and the social sciences, or between science and religion. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines issues in metaphysics. Topics include causation, determinism, consciousness, artificial intelligence, language, and reality. (Fall - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines various theories about normative issues including right and wrong, praise and blame, justice, rights, duties, pleasures, and happiness. (Spring - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines major political philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx, as it investigates important political concepts, such as liberty, democracy, and justice. (Spring - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This is a capstone course for philosophy majors that surveys a central philosophical problem(s). (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines the development of philosophy from the pre-Socratic through the Hellenistic periods. (Fall - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines Modern Philosophy through the works of Bacon, Descartes, Kant, the empiricists, and the rationalists. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee This course is an independent study with a professor on an approved topic. Each offering has variable credit, one (1) to three (3) credits. It is repeatable for up to six (6) credits. (As Needed) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Source: Southern Utah University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
