Philosophy (PHIL) 1 PHIL 2043 Philosophy of Film (H) PHILOSOPHY (PHIL) Description: This course introduces students to the various philosophical issues surrounding film. Topics will include: the nature of cinema, PHIL 1113 Introduction To Philosophy (H) authorship and narration, film’s relationship with the emotions, genre, Description: Selected philosophical problems: the nature of reality, and cinematic depictions of love, violence, race and gender. Various film knowledge, value, social ideals and religion. Previously offered as PHIL techniques will also be discussed, including cinematography, lighting, 2113. editing, scoring and sound design. These issues will be dealt with by Credit hours: 3 making use of philosophical texts. Course previously offered as PHIL Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 3723. Levels: Undergraduate Credit hours: 3 Schedule types: Lecture Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Department/School: Philosophy Levels: Undergraduate General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Schedule types: Lecture PHIL 1213 Philosophies of Life (H) Department/School: Philosophy Description: Introduction to selected views of living a meaningful life in General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities light of morality, social values, truth and freedom. PHIL 2053 Philosophy in Literature (H) Credit hours: 3 Description: Selected literary works examined for philosophical ideas Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 and themes. Attention to the interrelation of form and content. Thematic Levels: Undergraduate approach. Course previously offered as PHIL 4453. Schedule types: Lecture Credit hours: 3 Department/School: Philosophy Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Levels: Undergraduate PHIL 1313 Logic and Critical Thinking (A) Schedule types: Lecture Description: Formal and informal reasoning, common fallacies, Department/School: Philosophy definitions and language functions, patterns of explanation. Practical General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities criticism and development of everyday arguments. PHIL 2513 Philosophy and Culture (H) Credit hours: 3 Description: A philosophical investigation of diverse cultural attitudes, Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 values, and experiences. Representative topics include social media, Levels: Undergraduate entertainment, music, film, art, tradition, ritual, gender, race, class, and Schedule types: Lecture religion. Department/School: Philosophy Credit hours: 3 General Education and other Course Attributes: Analytical & Quant Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Thought Levels: Undergraduate PHIL 2003 Local Issues and Ethical Controversies (H) Schedule types: Lecture Description: This course will familiarize students with current and highly Department/School: Philosophy debated moral issues that affect their lives and the lives of those in their General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities community. Moral theories will be applied to critical issues that affect PHIL 2573 Drugs, Philosophy and Society (H) Oklahoma and surrounding Southwestern states. Students will learn how Description: This course explores the various philosophical issues that to articulate both sides of these debated issues, as well as how to engage arise from humankind's relationship with drug use. Considerable time in civil discourse with others with whom they may disagree. will be spent analyzing both the justification and ethical implications of Credit hours: 3 current United States drug policies. Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Credit hours: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Schedule types: Lecture Levels: Undergraduate Department/School: Philosophy Schedule types: Lecture General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 2013 Philosophical Classics (H) General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Description: Basic works by great thinkers, including Plato, Descartes and PHIL 2890 Honors Experience in Philosophy Hume. Previously offered as PHIL 1013. Prerequisites: Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in Credit hours: 3 a designated PHIL course. Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Description: A supplemental Honors experience in Philosophy to partner Levels: Undergraduate concurrently with designated Philosophy course(s). This course adds a Schedule types: Lecture different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s). Department/School: Philosophy Credit hours: 1 General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Contact: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Honors Credit 2 Philosophy (PHIL) PHIL 2990 Sophomore Seminar in Philosophy PHIL 3413 Ethical Theory (H) Prerequisites: 3 credit hours of Philosophy or consent of instructor. Description: Contemporary and classical views on the nature of Description: A seminar-style course on varying philosophic topics moral judgments, moral value, relativity and objectivity, freedom and intended for sophomores, taught by faculty members on a rotating basis. responsibility. Credit hours: 3 Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 3003 Symbolic Logic (A) General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Description: Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity. Formal PHIL 3433 Happiness and Well-being (H) analysis of language. Previously offered as PHIL 4303. May not be used Description: An investigation into the science and philosophy of for degree credit with PHIL 5003. happiness and well-being as well as the relationship between the two. Credit hours: 3 Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Analytical & Quant General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Thought PHIL 3513 Social Philosophy (H) PHIL 3113 Ancient Greek Philosophy (H) Description: Major social thinkers and contemporary issues. Social Prerequisites: PHIL 1113, PHIL 1313 or PHIL 2013, or any 3000-4000 level authority, human rights, political forms and justice. Emphasis on Aristotle, PHIL course. Locke, Mill and Marx. Description: Historically-based introduction to the philosophical Credit hours: 3 ideas and works of Plato and Aristotle. Begin by reading excerpts and Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 commentary on the Pre-Socratics and Sophists. End the course with Levels: Undergraduate readings from the Hellenistic schools of philosophy: Stoics, Skeptics, and Schedule types: Lecture Epicureans. Department/School: Philosophy Credit hours: 3 General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 PHIL 3523 Medieval Philosophy (H) Levels: Undergraduate Description: The central focus is on the philosophical and theological Schedule types: Lecture problems that engaged the minds of medieval thinkers from Christian, Department/School: Philosophy Islamic, and Jewish traditions, including Abelard, Avicenna, Averroes, General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Maimonides, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. PHIL 3213 17th and 18th Century Philosophy (H) Credit hours: 3 Prerequisites: PHIL 1113 or PHIL 1313 or PHIL 2013, or any 3000-4000 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 level PHIL course. Levels: Undergraduate Description: Major philosophers and problems in Western thought from Schedule types: Lecture the 17th through the 18th century. Emphasis on Descartes, Hume and Department/School: Philosophy Kant. General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Credit hours: 3 PHIL 3553 Philosophy of Dreams (H) Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Description: Critical examination of philosophical writings about dreams Levels: Undergraduate and dream theories. Topics include distinguishing dreams from reality, Schedule types: Lecture questions about morality In dreams, and debates about the evolutionary Department/School: Philosophy functions of dreams. General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Credit hours: 3 PHIL 3313 19th and 20th Century Philosophy (H) Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 Description: Major philosophers and problems in Western thought from Levels: Undergraduate Hegel to the present. Schedule types: Lecture Credit hours: 3 Department/School: Philosophy Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3 General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities Philosophy (PHIL) 3 PHIL 3613 Philosophy of Religion (H) PHIL 3733 Environmental Ethics (H) Description: Nature of religion, religious experience and religious Description: This course explores human ethical obligations as language. God-concepts, theistic arguments, God and evil, God and they related to the broader natural environment in the light of two immortality. issues: contemporary concerns about human-induced changes to the Credit hours: 3 environment (pollution, resource depletion, climate change, etc.), and Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: