PHI 009 A-Z - Philosophy StudioSemester Hours: 1
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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 009J - Philosophical Explorations: Joy, Pleasure and Play
This interdisciplinary course explores the value and use philosophers, psychologists, and artists have ascribed to the human propensity towards joy, pleasure, and play and the various psychic, social, and political structures that inhibit that drive.
PHI 009X - Philosophical Explorations
Students explore a philosophical topic of their choice and 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 work. In the first part, each student engages 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, students compose a piece of writing, exploring how the philosophical 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 piece of art.
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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