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OT 690 Research Project I
3 credits
Students will begin a research project that contributes to the knowledge-base of occupational therapy; the outcome will include a paper acceptable for publication in a professional journal or presentation at a state or national conference.
Prerequisite(s): OT 520
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OT 695 Research Project II
3 credits
Students will complete a research project that contributes to the knowledge-base of occupational therapy; the outcome will include a paper or presentation acceptable for publication in a professional journal.
Prerequisite(s): OT 690
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OT 699 Practice Exam Preparation
0 credit
This is a required non-credit course which will provide students with the opportunity to take a series of practice and content examinations designed to help prepare them to sit for the NBCOT Examination. As a requirement for graduation, all weekday and weekend program occupational therapy students are required to successfully complete this university-offered NBCOT certification examination preparation course. Successful completion is determined by successful passing of the practice examination. This course is offered two times per year- once in the spring weekday program, and once in a summer weekend format. Students may repeat OT 699 an unlimited number of times until they pass the practice examination; once they have passed the practice exam they may proceed to graduate if all other requirements are met.
Prerequisite(s): OT 601 or OT 602
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OTD 620 Advanced Theory
3 credits
This course will examine the current and classic literature as it pertains to theory development and analysis and its relationship to macro and micro models, and comparative analysis of frames of reference for practice and research. There will be consideration of both basic and applied knowledge as it pertains to the study of occupational therapy as an applied science and the science of occupation as an academic discipline. This course will be offered in a combination on-campus launch and distance online learning format.
Fall semester
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OTD 625 Supporting Practice through Public Policy and Advocacy
3 credits
Students will analyze current state and federal public policy issues and the impact on the delivery of occupational therapy services. Students will develop knowledge related to public policy formation and acquire advanced skills in advocacy. This course will be offered in a combination of on-campus meetings and distance online learning.
Spring semester
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OTD 640 Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Quality Programs
3 credits
Through didactic and problem based learning, students will explore program assessment tools and complete needs assessments. Students will learn the value of developing a program mission, strategic plan, and operational tactics in the development of a successful allied health based program. Students will gain knowledge about budgeting, marketing, and revenue sources in order to ensure their developed program is underscored with financial responsibility. This course will be offered in a combination of on campus meetings and distance online learning.
Fall semester
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OTD 641 Evidence-based Practice
3 credits
Students will demonstrate knowledge of evidence-based practice and complete an in-depth evidence-based project related to occupational therapy practice. Students will develop a clinical question (relevant and applicable to their area of practice or specialization), gather current published evidence, complete a critical review of the evidence, summarize and present the results of the critical appraisal process. This course will be offered in a combination on-campus launch and distance online learning format.
Fall semester
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OTD 642 Advanced Research
3 credits
The doctorally trained clinician in occupational therapy must have a solid understanding of not only research basics, but how to use that knowledge to solve problems in their clinical practice. This course will provide educational experiences that foster advanced knowledge and application of research principles in both the quantitative and qualitative paradigms to the clinician’s practice areas.
Summer semester
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OTD 643 Education, Presentation and Publication
3 credits
Students will develop professional skills related to providing well constructed educational sessions, promoting occupational therapy through dissemination of their clinical and scholarly work. Topics will include preparing curricular objectives and means to obtain them; proposal submission for conference presentations; using technology to promote effective presentations and writing for practice oriented and scholarly journals.
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OTD 644 Occupational Science
3 credits
Occupational science, also known as occupationology, is the study of occupation. Occupation is “all ‘doing’ that has intrinsic and extrinsic meaning” (Wilcock, p. 257). The occupational therapy profession is becoming increasingly reliant on occupational science as a cornerstone of research and knowledge which justifies the use of occupation in therapeutic intervention. The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge of the history, evolution, and current state of the occupational science discipline, and how occupational science can be used as a framework for occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
Spring semester
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OTD 650 Capstone Course
3 credits
This course design engages doctoral students to advance their clinical reasoning and competence in a pre-identified, specialized area of practice. Through participation in this course, students will be able to identify the most relevant issues impacting the role of occupational therapy in their designated specialty area. They will complete readings in relevant literature, engage in communication exchanges with a professional leader in their identified area, and conclude their capstone project with a product reflecting the extent of their learning. Students will be assigned a faculty capstone advisor and participate in mandatory online modules embedded throughout the course to help guide the student during their capstone experience.
Summer semester
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Organizational Management |
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OM 500 Organizational Behavior
3 credits
Social and behavioral science approaches to the study of human activity in organizations are studied. The course is designed to equip administrators with skills for managing interactions, differences, and relationships in organizational settings.
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OM 505 Decision Making
3 credits
A study of decision-making in complex human service organizations is the basis of this course. Examination of a variety of conceptual frameworks to enable administrators to develop an evaluative design for ethical, effective, and efficient decision making is included.
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OM 509 Financial Management
3 credits
This course is an introduction to the financial system and its relationship to the financing of business activities. The course emphasizes areas dealing with corporate financing decisions such as time value of money, security valuation, financial statement analysis, and financial forecasting.
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OM 510 Financial Management I
3 credits
This course is an introduction to basic economic theory, accounting principles, budget theory and practice, and financial control procedures necessary to the successful manager. Designed for the non-financial manager and presupposes little or no previous education or experience in finance.
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OM 511 Financial Management II
3 credits
This course applies the basic skills mastered in Financial Management I through case studies of public and private organizations. Emphasis on integrating financial considerations with other management considerations when analyzing and solving problems, and in planning. Investments, borrowing, information systems, and financial analysis are covered.
Prerequisite(s): OM 510
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OM 512 Management Science
3 credits
Management Science is concerned with providing advice, analysis, and support to decision makers based on a scientific approach and looking systematically at goals, scarce resources, and decision implementation. This course provides students with a conceptual understanding of the role that management science plays in the decision-making process, introduces students to procedures used to solve problems, and explores the procedures to review and interpret management literature and to determine the characteristics of quality research in the field of management.
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OM 515 Research Methods
3 credits
Provides students with an understanding of the concepts, principles, and techniques associated with the investigation of specific research problems in organizational behavior and management.
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OM 516 Introduction to Qualitative Research
3 credits
This course introduces the student to the nature and importance of qualitative research. Case study, grounded theory, historical and ethnographic methods are explored. Examples of qualitative research are analyzed, especially program evaluation.
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OM 520 Introduction to Management Information Systems
3 credits
Review and application of basic computer concepts, methods, and information systems techniques that contribute to business decision making and organizational performance. Topics include operating systems and hardware, graphics, desktop publishing, analysis and design, databases, communications, decision support systems, and artificial intelligence and robotics.
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OM 525 Human Services Systems
3 credits
An integrated seminar that examines the programs and policies of the major human service areas, with emphasis on the dynamics of the system as it evolves. Topics for discussion include aging, adult services, children and youth, drugs and alcohol, and health, mental health/mental retardation.
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OM 527 Selection, Recruitment, and Training/Development
3 credits
An in-depth examination of the recruitment and selection process and the training and development function. The course develops the key relationships among recruitment, selection and training/development of employees and explores the impact these functions have on organizational competitiveness and success. The course emphasizes the importance of proper recruitment, selection and training/development.
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OM 530 Legal Aspects of Administration
3 credits
This course provides students with an understanding of legal aspects of administrative action that includes the sources and scope of administrative authority and the function of the legal process. Case method of decision analysis is utilized, supplemented by lecture and discussion.
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OM 531 Public Relations, Communications, and the Media in Sport
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 530 . May not be taken if credit previously earned for MBA 530 . This course is designed to examine the complex relationship between sport organizations and media outlets and the varying types of communication used in sport. This course explores public relations as a vital organization function in sports, rather than just a tool that supports marketing efforts or piques media interest. In addition to covering all aspects of public relations, this course challenges students to assume the role of a public relations professional tasked with developing items like a media relations plan, community relations activities, and a crisis communication plan. Also, this course addresses the need for reputation management and the unique challenges professional and amateur athletes present to sport organizations and their public images.
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OM 533 Managing Customer Satisfaction
3 credits
This course is a detailed analysis of the value chain concept and the essential interrelationships among logistics, production and operations, specification preparation, bid analysis, and vendor analysis. Emphasis is on how total integration of these concepts leads to customer satisfaction.
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OM 535 Leadership
3 credits
This course is an analysis of the effectiveness of various leadership styles on a continuum from authoritarian to participative. Emphasis will be on the impact of style on productivity, morale, commitment, and achievement of strategies and goals.
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OM 536 Marketing Management
3 credits
An analytical approach to the study of marketing issues. Focus is on influence of the market place and the marketing environment, on decision making in regard to the determination of the organization’s services, fee structures, channels and strategies of communication and the organization’s system for planning and controlling its marketing effort.
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OM 538 Perspectives in Management
3 credits
This course focuses on the changing nature of management in response to new challenges in the internal and external managerial environment. Emphasis is placed on the problem-solving aspects of the managerial process. Special areas include globalization of the decision-making/problem-solving process, motivation for performance, and fostering an atmosphere for innovation and creativity.
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OM 540 Grant/Contract Development and Management
3 credits
Systematic approach to the mechanics, techniques, and issues involved in external funding. Covers the pre-application phase, the application phase, the post-application phase, and the administration phase of grant/contract development and management.
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OM 541 Not-For-Profit Management
3 credits
An examination of the management principles and practices as particularly applied to the not-for-profit sector. Topics include board relations, staff effectiveness, fund-raising, marketing, financial information systems, management information systems, governmental relations, legal resources, and use of consultants.
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OM 542 Fund-raising: Theory and Application
3 credits
This course is designed for the current or prospective administrator. Focus is on mechanics of fund-raising, the tools of the fund-raiser, and the types of fund-raising activities applicable to both public and private sectors. This course considers the role of institutional development in the 1990s.
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OM 543 Assessment in Not-For-Profit Organizations
3 credits
This course is an introduction to the purposes and practices of program assessment and evaluation with special emphasis on the not-for-profit sector. Topics include: purpose of evaluation; evaluation planning; techniques of evaluation; need, process and outcomes evaluation; and effective application of findings.
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OM 545 Introduction to Human Resource Management
3 credits
This course is an introduction to human resource management. It provides a broad overview in such areas as history and definition of the human resource process, human resource management functions, recurring themes in human resource management including issues of protected classes such as women and the disabled, alternative views, and current and future challenges in the field.
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OM 547 Healthcare Finance
3 credits
(Also offered as MBA 547 ) This course blends the topics of both accounting and finance that have become part of the everyday life of most healthcare executives. This course will proved the student with the knowledge to help them understand the conceptual basis and mechanics of financial analysis and decision making and its application to the healthcare industry.
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OM 548 Healthcare Law
3 credits
(Also offered as MBA 548 ) This course is designed to introduce the student to the law and legal system in healthcare as to both the theoretical and practical determinants of legal decision making.
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OM 549 Healthcare Leadership and Management
3 credits
(Also offered as MBA 549 ) This course provides an introduction and overview to leadership, management, and administration in health care. It is intended to provide fundamental background and skills needed for a leadership position in health care. The course examines comparative leadership strategies, integrating with readings, lectures, case study and guest lectures which will examine different managerial approaches to solving complex issues. The course will also include a detailed examination of large, complex health care systems, and the organizations that form the systems, comparing them to international health systems. It provides a forum for discussion of the dynamic nature of the health care system in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the challenges of governmental, regulatory, and other legal requirements in this era of health care reform.
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OM 550 Personnel and Labor Relations
3 credits
Basic concepts, issues, and practices involved in personnel administration and labor relations are studied. Emphasis on the successful management of human resources.
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OM 551 Organizational Communication
3 credits
This course is designed to develop skills in communication to promote organizational goal setting, coherence, and effective teamwork.
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OM 552 Regulation of Human Resource Management
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 552 . This course is an examination of the legal environment of the workplace and its impact on the human resource function. Compliance with state and federal laws and regulations will be emphasized. It offers an overview of the statutory scheme regulating employment and labor relations, presented primarily through pertinent statutes and their judicial interpretation (case law). Topics include, but are not limited to, issues of discrimination in the workplace, labor relations, health and safety issues, and employment standards.
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OM 553 Fundamentals of Employment Benefit Planning
3 credits
This course is an in-depth study of the evolution and development of employee benefit programs. Current practices and their applicability to various organizations is examined.
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OM 554 Current Issues in Human Resource Management
3 credits
This seminar, designed for the study of timely and significant issues in human resource management, examines current trends and relevant problem-solving techniques in human resource management.
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OM 555 Administration of Human Resources
3 credits
This course examines the theory, policy, and process issues in employment relationships including specific practices in selection, appraisal, compensation, and discipline as they relate to conceptual views of management.
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OM 556 Policy/Procedure Development in Human Resource Management
3 credits
This course studies the development and implementation of policies relevant to human resource administration. Focus is on the relationship between government policy and corporate policy and influence of management philosophy for policy planning. Discussion on expected and unexpected outcomes of policy decisions is included.
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OM 557 Performance, Compensation, and Reward Systems
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 557 . This course explores the performance appraisal function and process and its linkage to compensation system development, including performance-based pay and benefits (total compensation strategies), and to reward systems.
Prerequisite(s): OM 545
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OM 558 Employee Relations and Services
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 558 . The course examines employee relation issues including management systems and procedures, job design, work environment, and growth and development. Additionally, students study employee services ranging from employee assistance programs and counseling to child and elder care.
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OM 559 Special Topics in Human Resource Management
3 credits
This course is an examination of selected topics relevant to human resource management. Possible topics include training and staff development, employee assistance programming, governmental relations strategies, time management, and effective supervision.
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OM 562 Consumer Advertising and Promotion
3 credits
This course is a comprehensive study of the theory and practical applications of consumer advertising and sales promotion, as part of an integrated marketing communications strategy. Students identify various elements utilized by consumers to achieve tactical and strategic buying decisions. Relationship-building and ethical issues are addressed.
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OM 564 Consumer and Marketing Research
3 credits
This course concentrates on the fundamental research methods: hypothesis statements, the survey process, data analysis, conclusions and presentation of research results. Research emphasis is placed on consumer buying decision-making.
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OM 566 Relationship and Service Marketing
3 credits
This course examines key concepts, theories, applications, and theoretical and conceptual paradigms, including global viewpoints to develop relationship marketing organizational designs. By stressing the importance of cooperation and collaboration with suppliers and customers, relationship marketing emerges as the core of all marketing activity.
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OM 571 Database Management Systems
3 credits
This course studies methodologies for logical and physical database design; entity-relationship diagrams and their mapping to database schemes. This course covers data base concepts, data base architecture, data modeling, data dictionaries, data base administration, data security and SQL (structured query language) normalization, query optimization, as well as form and report design, commercial DBMS products, concurrency, recovery, and security. Using Oracle or MS Access or other DBMS, students are responsible for creating an authentic database.
Even years
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OM 573 System Analysis and Design
3 credits
The course provides in-depth coverage of the tools, techniques and methodologies for information systems analysis and design. Other topics include client/server computing, software process management, and software quality management. Students are expected to undertake an authentic, real-world, systems-analysis-and-design project.
Odd years
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OM 575 Data and Computer Communications
3 credits
The course provides a comprehensive view of data and computer communications and examines fundamental concepts in telecommunications and networking. Topics include network technologies and services, with an emphasis on understanding digital data communications and their role in business organizations. The course explores key issues, general categories of principles, including basic concepts and terminology, various design approaches and applications in business.
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OM 577 Special Topics in Information Technology Management
3 credits
This course is an examination of selected topics relevant to the development of knowledge and skills in information technology management. Possible topics include electronic commerce, software engineering, decision support and expert systems, office automation, and other leading-edge technologies.
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OM 580 Project Management
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 580 . Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project’s goals and objectives. Project management is applicable to business, nonprofit and government organizations. In this course students learn to apply project management techniques to construct time lines and network diagrams, and critical path analysis. Also covered are interpersonal skills vital to managing cross-functional teams and the how to monitor project performance and take corrective actions to achieve objectives.
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OM 585 Special Topics in Administration
3 credits
Examination of selected topics relevant to the development of skills in administration. Possible topics include governmental relations strategies, time management, program assessment and evaluation.
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OM 586 Strategic Planning and Management of Change
3 credits
This course is an introduction to the strategic planning process and its application in managing organizational change. Techniques and skills involved in designing and implementing planned change to improve organizational adaptiveness and effectiveness in the changing political, economic, social, and technological environments.
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OM 587 MIS Policy and Management of Technology
3 credits
Based on the premise that the effective management of information systems requires some level of understanding of the underlying technologies, the course emphasizes managerial issues in information systems as opposed to concentrating on technical areas. The course considers enterprise architecture as its relates to the providing organizational information systems.
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OM 590 Seminar
3 credits
This is an advanced seminar offered to small groups of graduate students who wish to explore in greater depth a sub-specialty in administration that may include human resource issues and/or general management issues.
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OM 595 Professional Contribution
3 credits
This course includes the design and implementation of a special project or study relevant to the expressed needs of an organization or agency.
Prerequisite(s): Academic advisor approval
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OM 596 Administrative Practicum
3 credits
This is an educationally-directed experience in an approved organizational setting. Application for the practicum must be made with the student’s academic advisor.
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OM 599 Independent Study
Variable credits
This class allows students to investigate a topic of interest with the guidance of a mentor approved by the university. Topics must be approved in advanced.
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OM 640 Advanced Sport Marketing: Applied Research and Strategic Plans
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 640 . May not be taken if credit previously earned for MBA 640
This course is designed to expand on the traditional marketing strategies and practices covered in OM 536 , and apply them to the unique sport product and sport consumers. Students will make the shift from theory to practice by examining topics like fan loyalty, sponsorships and promotions, brand development, marketing research, and strategic planning. To complete the transition, students will be tasked with developing and conducting research projects and performing strategic market planning for local sport organizations.
Prerequisite(s): OM 536
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OM 641 The Business of Sport
3 credits
Also offered as MBA 641 . May not be taken if credit was previously earned for MBA 641 Compared to traditional business industries, the sport business industry has many unique aspects that go against traditional business models. The successes and failures of sport organizations in many instances rely heavily on the performance of their direct competitors. In this course, students are exposed to the unique aspects that make competitors on the field allies off of it. This course examines the unique business models existing in professional sports leagues, intercollegiate athletics, and international sporting events like the Olympics. Students are also challenged to identify and analyze current issues that arise during the ever changing sport business industry.
Prerequisite(s): OM 500
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PHL 100 Introduction to Philosophy
3 credits
This course examines those pivotal philosophies that have most significantly shaped the evolution of Western culture. Its aim is to critically reflect on the defining ideas of both tradition and the modern world, and to explore the specific challenges modernity poses to traditional thought. This course is a core requirement, and a for all other philosophy courses. It is also offered in the honors colloquia. Students who complete PHL 100 cannot take PHL 151 : University Writing Seminar, nor may students who complete PHL 151 take PHL 100.
Fall and Spring
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PHL 151 University Writing Seminar
3 credits
This course introduces and develops skills and abilities fundamental to proficient academic writing. This course emphasizes the critical reading and the summary, synthesis and analysis of primary materials in the study of Western philosophic systems. Students who complete PHL 151 cannot take PHL 100 : Introduction to Philosophy, nor may students who complete PHL 100 take PHL 151.
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PHL 200 Ethical Theory
3 credits
This course investigates the basic issues and problems encountered in the field of ethical theory. These issues include the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, the motivation for morality, virtue vs. rule-based ethics, deontological vs. consequentialist theories, moral psychology, and meta-ethical analysis. As a philosophical reflection upon our moral experience, special emphasis is placed upon rational justification for the stances we take in these issues.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
Fall and Spring
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PHL 201 Law, Justice and Society
3 credits
This course will focus on the main themes of the philosophy of law: the nature and limits of the law, the relation between legal and ethical reasoning, the notion of rights, the justifiability of punishment, and the law’s role in establishing and upholding justice, freedom, and equality. Special emphasis will be given to the acquisition of ethical reasoning skills.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 202 Environmental Philosophy
3 credits
This course is a survey of the fundamental principles and traditions underlying what we call today “environmental philosophy.” Students will explore the roots of our contemporary ideas about nature and ecology, animal rights, whether or not nature has intrinsic or merely instrumental value, ecofeminism, “deep” ecology, non-western perspectives on the environment, population, hunger, global warming and the Gaia theory that the planet is a living organism.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 205 Medieval Philosophy
3 credits
This course covers the philosophical discussions and debates that dominated the interchange between philosophical and theological discourse in the Latin West from the 11th to the 16th centuries. In the speculations of medieval philosophers, we find the constitutive elements of Western culture and philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 206 Logic
3 credits
This course is intended to provide students with the skills needed to apply logical principles and techniques of critical thought and argumentation to the analysis of their own words and the words of others. Emphasis will be on assessing the legitimacy of arguments, detecting common fallacies, evaluating evidence and improving skills in formal reasoning. Previously offered as PHL 105: Introduction to Logic
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 210 Philosophy of Person
3 credits
A dominantly phenomenological approach to analyzing the existential structures that constitute a person. Exploration of the possibilities for personal growth and evaluation of the various social forces that limit these possibilities.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 215 Wisdom Traditions
3 credits
The course will critically examine the non-western philosophic traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism through a small sampling of primary and secondary texts. These systems will be examined on their own merits as well as in contrast to Western alternatives.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 220 Philosophy and Literature
3 credits
The exploration of philosophical issues through the medium of literature, as distinct from the argumentative format common to straight forward philosophical discourse. Major emphasis is on tracing the changing conceptions of human nature and individual human action in the context of changing conceptions of nature, the human community, political legitimacy and morality.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 223 Social Ethics
3 credits
An examination of the leading ethical theories in normative discourse, and their application to the most urgent social problems that address us. Topics such as poverty, war, animal rights, economic justice, and the morality of sex and reproduction are debated.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 230 Philosophies of History
3 credits
This course will examine select conceptual issues that arise from philosophical engagements with history. Issues of consideration may include whether historical developments are contingent or necessary, whether history unfolds through a continuous and unified evolution or a series of discontinuous ruptures, or whether there is a single and total “History” or fractured and multiple histories. Topics of consideration may include the role truth, fiction, and interpretation play in historiography, the role history plays in shaping our sense of place and identity, or the potential uses and abuses to which history might be put in transforming our lives.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 231 Critical Social Theory
3 credits
This course introduces students to the major themes and issues of critical social theory – a theoretical field comprised of interdisciplinary methods of analysis that aim to identify social ills born of the dominant socio-political structures of our time, to locate the mechanisms of domination, subjugation, and oppression to which they give rise, and to ameliorate those effects through a transformation of ourselves and society. Topics of analysis may include economic exploitation, classism, consumerism, race, gender, or sexuality. Methods of analysis may include Marxism, psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, feminism, deconstruction, post-structuralism, critical race theory, queer theory, or post-colonialism.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 232 Philosophies of Mass Culture
3 credits
This course undertakes a philosophical and critical analysis of the unique historical phenomenon known as “mass culture,” which has been theorized as a socio-political and economic formation wherein the cultural productions that populate our aesthetic environment are predominantly organized by the logic of commodification. When and why did mass culture arise, what exactly is it, and how does it affect us? In pursuing answers to these questions, this course will examine various instances of contemporary art and may consider topics regarding the methods of cultural criticism, the formation of the masses, the commodification of aesthetics and the aestheticization of commodities, the differences between modern and postmodern cultures, the relationship between politics and aesthetics, or the effects of mass culture on our sense of individuality, our ability to think critically, and our capacity to conceive a new social imaginary.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 233 Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Culture
3 credits
This course will examine aesthetic theory, with a possible emphasis on the theories of the late 18th-19th century when philosophers become increasingly interested in questions concerning art. The course will bring together the work of philosophers with some of the poets, artists, and musicians that influenced them in order to consider aesthetic issues such as beauty, genius, and the sublime as they arise in works of art and philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 234 American Philosophies
3 credits
This course will examine select conceptual issues and movements in the broad category of American Philosophy. Topics of consideration may include the political thought of the founding fathers, the transcendentalism of Thoreau and Emerson and the Pragmatist movement centering in the work of Peirce, James, Dewey and Rorty. The goal of the course is to acquaint students with the distinctively American contribution to Western philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 235 Buddhist Philosophies
3 credits
This course will examine select philosophic issues that arise in the wide range of Buddhist ideas and practices found in the Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana and Chan/Zen traditions. Topics of consideration may include Buddhist theories of causality, personal identity, substantiality, happiness, optimal human relationality and the effects of meditation practices on philosophic inquiry. Students will be encouraged to rexamine Western philosophic problems and solutions through the medium of Buddhist thought and practice.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 236 Philosophy of Gender
3 credits
This course will examine the idea of gender, with the goals of understanding how gender operates in the context of other social, political, and economic structures in the past and present and reimagining its role in the future. Students will consider gender from a wide variety of feminist perspectives in order to develop a critical stance on gender and gender oppression. The tensions and intersections of various feminisms with other forms of anti-oppressive thought will also be investigated.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 237 Philosophies of Science
3 credits
This course examines the relation between philosophy and science with an emphasis on the historical interplay between the two disciplines in western culture. Topics of consideration may include the gradual emergence of the sciences from the general field of philosophy, specific issues and episodes in the development of the philosophy of science, what constitutes a scientific as opposed to a philosophic explanation, the concept of scientific progress, and the nature and method of scientific confirmation.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 238 Philosophies of Injustice
3 credits
Injustice and oppression are not mere sociological aberrations, but are driven by identifiable and rationally analyzable world views. This course examines the historical and philosophical foundations of social injustice in terms of the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical assumptions that give rise to and sustain it in its various forms. Students will examine the philosophical belief systems that inform sexism, heterosexism, racism, cissexism, colorism, ableism, nativism, colonialism, ageism, classism, and/or other oppressive ideologies.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 239 Marx and Marxisms
3 credits
This course will examine selected theoretical works written by Karl Marx as well as some of the varied legacies of Marxism that followed in their wake with specific attention given to the links that connect philosophy, science, history, economics, politics, society, and culture. Topics of consideration may include historical materialism as a methodology, analyses of the structure of capitalism, origins of exploitation, the relation between human nature and alienation, causes of false consciousness, approaches to ideology critique, the relation between political theory and political practice, forms of revolution, human freedom, emancipatory politics, socialist democracy, democratic socialism, or communism.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 257 Philosophy of Religion
3 credits
An inquiry into the nature of religion and the objects of thought and feeling associated with religion, such as the nature and existence of God, the nature of religious experience and symbolism, evil, creation, and immortality.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 270 Social and Political Philosophy
3 credits
An examination of the key issues in the history of Western social and political philosophy. These include the nature and purpose of government, political legitimacy, the relationship between theories of human nature and political systems, and the evolution of rights.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 299 Special Topics-Core
3 credits
Special topics courses in the University’s Core Curriculum focus on a topic not currently offered as a standing course within a department’s contribution to the Core Curriculum. Special topics courses in the Core may be offered in two semesters (which do not have to be consecutive) with multiple offerings in each semester.
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PHL 310 Medical Ethics
3 credits
This course in applied ethics explores the ethical questions related to modern science and the health professions. Topics such as abortion, human experimentation, genetic engineering, patient-rights, and the delivery of health care are analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 315 Philosophy of Medicine
3 credits
This course examines the philosophical foundations of various models of the practice of medicine, focusing on philosophical conceptions of human health and well-being. The emphasis of the course is on understanding medicine within a human and humane context. This approach is occasioned by the prevalence of what is known as the biomedical model, a model that sees the human being primarily as a biological manifestation, emphasizing cure over care and healing. This course examines the epistemological, metaphysical, social and ethical frameworks of this model as set against a variety of alternative humanistic models and their respective philosophical underpinnings, from the biopsychosocial model to the narrative model
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 320 Ancient Philosophy
3 credits
An examination of the history of philosophy from the origins of scientific thought in Asia Minor through the synthesis of St. Augustine. Major emphasis is on Plato and Aristotle.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 330 Early Modern Philosophy
3 credits
An examination of the history of philosophy from the Renaissance through the early 19th century. Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism are studied in relationship to Kant and his attempt to synthesize the two. Emphasis will be on the shift from an ancient/medieval world view, and how this shift sets the stage for contemporary issues.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 340 19th Century Philosophy
3 credits
This course investigates the Enlightenment ideal of personhood, particularly as it is expressed in Kant’s critical project, and the various 19th century reactions to this ideal as formulated in the works of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 350 20th Century Philosophy
3 credits
This course examines the following dominant 20th century philosophical methodologies: pragmatism, phenomenology, logical positivism, linguistic analysis, and existentialism. Previously offered as PHL 430. Students may not receive credit for both PHL 430 and PHL 350.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 411 Figures in Philosophy
3 credits
This advanced seminar will focus on the work of one philosopher. It will be a writing seminar in which students learn to do philosophical research in anticipation of the senior capstone.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 412 Issues in Philosophy
3 credits
This advanced seminar will focus on one major issue in philosophy. It will be a writing seminar in which students learn to do philosophical research in anticipation of the senior capstone.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 413 Great Texts in Philosophy
3 credits
This advanced seminar will focus on one important philosophical work. It will be a writing seminar in which students learn to do philosophical research in anticipation of the senior capstone.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
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PHL 480 Independent Study
3 credits
Special investigation of a selected topic.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
(On demand)
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PHL 485 Special Topics
3 credits
Topics may vary from semester to semester and will be announced with preregistration information.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 100 or PHL 151
(On demand)
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PHL 490 Capstone
3 credits
Students will complete an independent research project in philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): PHL 411 or PHL 412 or PHL 413
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PHY 117 Physics Introduction I
4 credits
This course provides an overview of physics topics in areas of mechanics and heat for non-science majors at an introductory level, emphasizing conceptual development and qualitative and quantitative (using algebra and trigonometry) applications of these concepts to real world physical examples.
Lecture: 3 hours. Laboratory: 2 hours.
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