PHI 009 A-Z - Philosophy StudioSemester Hours: 1
Periodically
Intensive introduction to the skills required for successful study and research in philosophy. Students will write papers or complete exercises designed to build analytical, writing, argumentation, and oral presentation skills. Each course will focus on a particular skill or set of skills.
Current Special Topics
PHI 009X: Philosophical Explorations
Students will explore a philosophical topic of their choice and then work to develop an expression of it in alternative media, such as a screenplay, a short story, a poem, a piece of music, a dance, or other artistic pieces.
In the first part of this course, each student will engage in a directed, detailed exploration of a philosophical topic of the student’s choice. Topics might include time travel, personal identity, skepticism, free will, artificial intelligence, ethics, philosophy of religion, the meaning of life. In the second part of the course, students will explore how the issue might be developed or transformed into another form such as a persuasive or descriptive essay, a screenplay, a short story, a poem, or other pieces of art and begin work on the piece. Students will present whatever work they have completed at the end of the semester. Students will also compose, in writing, a description of the philosophical issue of their choice, the way that the philosophical issue can be expressed in an alternative medium, how that medium helps to illuminate the issue, and what the student has learned by exploring the issue in this way.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May be repeated for credit when topic varies. As individual subjects are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) which is affixed to the course number. Specific titles and course descriptions for special topics courses are available in the online class schedule.
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