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2018-2019 Arapahoe Community College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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PHI 111 - Introduction to Philosophy: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Introduces significant human questions and emphasizes understanding the meaning and methods of philosophy. Includes human condition, knowledge, freedom, history, ethics, the future, and religion.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 112 - Ethics: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Examines human life, experience, and thought in order to discover and develop the principles and values for pursuing a more fulfilled existence. Theories designed to justify ethical judgments are applied to a selection of contemporary personal and social issues.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 113 - Logic: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Studies effective thinking using language-oriented logic. Provides tools and develops skills for creative and critical thinking and the formal analysis of arguments. Emphasizes the development of decision-making and problem-solving.~~This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 114 - Comparative Religions: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Introduces students to the similarities and differences among concepts predominant in the major world religions, comparing sociological, philosophical, and phenomenological similarities between major world faiths. It is designed to transfer to any public four-year college philosophy, religious studies or humanities department.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 115 - World Religions - West: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Introduces the student to the common and different concepts predominant in the major world religions. Includes sociological, political, psychological, and philosophical aspects of a variety of belief systems. Focuses on the concept of religion as a cultural system, and a way that people make sense of a complex world. Particular emphasis is placed on how myths, legends, and folk tales reveal religious concerns.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 116 - World Religions - East: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Emphasizes the diversity and richness of Eastern Religions within a cross-cultural context. Concepts such as fate, reincarnation, enlightenment and morality are analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 124 - Introduction to Islam
3 Credits
Introduces the Islamic religious tradition and considers its significance in the modern world. The course investigates the history of Islam, Islamic beliefs and practices, Islamic sects, Sufism, and contemporary issues of Islamic extremism, women in Islam, and Islam in the West.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 205 - Business Ethics: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Examines philosophical theories about ethics and relevant subsidiary theories about the nature of justice in order to gather ethical decision-making criteria. Such criteria will be applied through logical argumentation to various moral issues and challenges in today’s business environment. Issues covered will include economic distribution, the presuppositions of business, job discrimination, worker’s rights, consumerism, advertising, responsibility to the environment, as well as compassionate and fair responsibility to society. This course is approved as part of the Colorado Statewide Guaranteed transfer curriculum: GT: AH3.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 214 - Philosophy of Religion: GT-AH3
3 Credits
Focuses on the critical examination of the fundamental concepts, ideas, and implications of religion. Includes the nature of God, the varieties of religious experience, argument concerning God’s existence, the Problem of Evil, faith and reason, religion and human destiny, and the connection between religion and ethics.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 216 - Philosophy of Atheism
3 Credits
Focuses on the critical examination of the fundamental concepts, ideas, history and implications of atheism. Includes the nature of atheism, the varieties of atheistic viewpoints, arguments warranting the atheistic viewpoints, including the differences between faith and reason, religion and secular humanism, and the connection between atheism and ethics.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 218 - Environmental Ethics GT-AH3
3 Credits
Analyzes theories of the value of the natural world. Topics may include the relation between scientific and moral principles; theories of the moral worth of persons, animals, plants, and other natural objects; historical, religious, and cultural influences on conceptions of nature; alternative accounts of human relationships and responsibilities to nature; and the connection between moral and political values and economic policies. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 250 - Eastern Wisdom
3 Credits
Covers fundamental theories of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Muslim metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, focusing on the development of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, as well as Islam’s development in the East.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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PHI 275 - Special Topics
1-6 Variable Credits
Provides students with a vehicle to pursue in-depth exploration of special topics of interest.
Prerequisite(s): Prior philosophy class, sophomore standing or Instructor’s permission
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PHI 285 - Independent Study
1-6 Variable Credits
Focuses on directed readings and independent study on specific philosophical topics.
Required: Instructor’s permission
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