02-22-2018, 09:45 AM
(02-20-2018, 04:33 PM)PhiloScientia Wrote:(02-20-2018, 04:29 PM)Ideas Wrote: The PLA database is on TESU's site.
Thank you! Like I said I'm very new to this and am just learning all the acronyms you guys use on this forum. OK, for other newbs, here's the link to TESU's PLA assessment: https://www2.tesu.edu/plasearch.php
Unfortunately, there is NO philosophy.
Respectfully disagree. Here's what three minutes dredged up:
Political Philosophy(POS-377)3.00 s.h.
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Analysis of the relationship between ethics and politics in contemporary democracy and current challenges to traditional democratic theory. Political obligation; the justification of authority; disobedience and the right of resistance; freedom; social justice; and equality.
18th Century History and Philosophy(HUM-310)3.00 s.h.
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Course Description
This course explores the culture of the Age of Reason at its height through the in-depth study of a number of major texts and of certain leading figures. There is an interdisciplinary approach embodying, for instance, historical, literary and philosophical approaches. The works of fiction and poetry, philosophy, history, science, music and art are studied in their own right, bur are also interconnected as mutually illuminating phenomena.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
Identify the roots of Enlightenment thought in 17th century achievements in science, politics and the arts.
Demonstrate familiarity with the great system builders in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics and the basic principles that characterize their thinking including such thinkers as Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, Berkeley, Hume, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, Vico, Voltaire.
Identify and discuss the development of rationalism and empiricism during this period considered the Age of Reason.
Articulate reasoned views on Nietzsche's philosophy, supported by close textual reading and argument.
Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on existentialism.
Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on the period.
Ancient Philosophy(PHI-324)3.00 s.h.
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Course Description
The major philosophical systems and movements from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
Identify and discuss the major Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Identify and discuss contributions of major figures from the different schools of Hellenistic thought, basic contributions made to philosophy and the differences and conflicts among them.
Identify and discuss the transformation from cosmology to ethics achieved by Socrates and Plato.
Discuss the Plato's ideas of education, politics and the soul in Republic.
Discuss the methods and teaching developed by Plato in his early, middle and later dialogues.
Discuss Aristotle's criticism of Platonic forms.
Discuss Aristotle's physics and ideas of the Soul.
Discuss Aristotle's notion of virtue.
Discuss key points of Aristotle's aesthetics as found in the Poetics.
Demonstrate familiarity with primary sources as well as critical literature on the periods.
Address the influence of Greek philosophy on subsequent western thought.
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