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PHIL 201: Major Issues in Philosophy
A general philosophy course, organized in terms of issues rather than the history of ideas. Subjects include how individuals know, the nature of personality, making ethical decisions, the philosophy of art and beauty, and the philosophy of science.
Course · October 17, 2025
AFRO 134/REL 134: Race, Religion and Resistance
Religion has been a medium for the propagation of invented racial ideologies designed to exclude those outside dominant cultures. It is also true, however, that religion has been a source and method through which groups have imagined liberating ...
Course · October 17, 2025
BIC 1323: World of Rhetoric II
Focuses on the continued development of critical reading, thinking, and writing skills by building on the instruction and content of BIC 1313, The World of Rhetoric: Writing and Speaking. Throughout the course students will engage in the reciproca...
Course · October 17, 2025
BIC 2334: World Cultures III: The Modern World
This course focuses on the scientific revolution and continuing advances in the sciences, and on revolutionary ideas in other areas of human experience--political, religious, social, artistic, and economic. The course will explore efforts of the m...
Course · October 17, 2025
BIC 4389: Bridging the Gap
This course aims to heal polarization, promote belonging across meaningful differences, and address the challenges arising within diverse countries like the United States that aspire to democracy. Over the course of the semester, we will explore a...
Course · October 17, 2025
BIC 2340: Social World II: Modernity and the Problem of Order
This course studies classic modern works of western social and political thought that have played a formative role in the rise of modern political life and contemporary social science. In works by Hobbes and Locke, for example, we explore the orig...
Course · October 17, 2025
THEO 1000: Theological Foundations
In response to the mission of this Catholic, Jesuit University, the Theological Foundations course (THEO-100) seeks to educate students from all the undergraduate programs in a critical discourse with human experience, biblical origins, historical...
Course · October 17, 2025
BIC 2330: Social World I: The City and the Soul
This course studies classic works from the ancient and medieval traditions of western social and political thought up to the modern rejection of those traditions inaugurated by Machiavelli. Ancient and medieval thinkers typically conceived of civi...
Course · October 17, 2025
REL 110/PHIL 110: World Religions
The purpose of Religion/Philosophy (REL/PHIL) 110 is to help you understand the beliefs, practices and communities of some of the world’s largest religious traditions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—focus...
Course · October 17, 2025
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