COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Undergraduate

00-013

APC 1

PHI 3xxx(3 cr hrs)

Ethics and Literature

This is a request to add an elective within a major program. This course explores the ways I which ethical theory and literature inform one another, how ethical perspectives are illustrated in works of fiction and whether fiction itself can be a form of moral philosophy. Figures such as Sartre, Derrida, Martha Nussbaum and works of fiction by Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Philip K. Dick will be examined.

00-014

APC 1

PHI 3xxx(3 cr hrs)

Ethics of Sex and Gender

This course will explore ethical dimensions of sex and gender and the gendered dimensions of ethical thought and practice. Do women and men approach moral problems differently? Do women’s traditional concerns, such as childcare, enhance ethical theory? Also addressed will be practical ethical issues related to sex and gender, such as reproductive technologies, prostitution, and militarism. Each topic will be explored from both the masculine and feminine perspectives.

00-015

APC1

PHM 4340(3 cr hrs)

Contemporary Political Philosophy

This course examines main trends in recent and current political philosophy. Emphasis is on cotemporary philosophical treatments of concepts like rights, liberty, justice, equality, democracy, power, the state, and the political itself.