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NUIP 4610 - Leadership and Management in Health Care Systems
This course integrates management knowledge, concepts, and theory with practical experience within health care situations to prepare students for beginning leadership roles in existing/emerging delivery systems. This class explores the professional nurse’s role in creating the envisioned patient centered, effective health care delivery organization of the future. Students complete an experiential learning project focused on quality improvement.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4993 - Independent Study
Independent Study in Interprofessional Nursing
Credits: 1 to 3
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PASH 1010 - Elementary Pashto I
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 1010 and PASH 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours per week. Followed by PASH 1020.
Credits: 4
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PASH 1020 - Elementary Pashto II
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 1010 and PASH 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours per week. Followed by PASH 2010. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 1010, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PASH 2010 - Intermediate Pashto I
Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 2010 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Pashto speakers. Four class hours. Followed by PASH 2020. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 1020, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PASH 2020 - Intermediate Pashto II
Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 2020 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Pashto speakers. Four class hours. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 2010, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PAVS 4500 - Pavilion Seminar
The Pavilion Seminars are open, by instructor permission, to 3rd and 4th year students. They are 3-credit, multidisciplinary seminars, focused on big topics and limited to max. 15 students each. For detailed descriptions of current offerings, see http://college.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/PAVS.
Credits: 3
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Persian |
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PERS 1010 - Elementary Persian
Introductory language sequence focusing on reading, writing, comprehending, and speaking modern Persian through audio-lingual methods. Persian grammar is introduced through sentence patterns in the form of dialogues and monologues.
Credits: 4
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PERS 1020 - Elementary Persian
Introductory language sequence focusing on reading, writing, comprehending, and speaking modern Persian through audio-lingual methods. Persian grammar is introduced through sentence patterns in the form of dialogues and monologues. Prerequisite: PERS 1010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 1060 - Accelerated Persian
This course is designed for Persian heritage students who many know spoken language to some extent, but they have not been exposed to formal or written language. It covers two semesters of Elementary Persian; emphasizing reading and writing skills, and the grammar of the language.
Credits: 4
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PERS 2010 - Intermediate Persian
Each course focuses on the development of reading, writing, and speaking skills. Special attention is paid to reading comprehension using selections from classical and modern Persian prose and poetry, preparing students for advanced studies in Indo-Persian language and literature. Prerequisite: PERS 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 2020 - Intermediate Persian
Each course focuses on the development of reading, writing, and speaking skills. Special attention is paid to reading comprehension using selections from classical and modern Persian prose and poetry, preparing students for advanced studies in Indo-Persian language and literature. Prerequisite: PERS 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 3010 - Advanced Persian I
This course is designed to introduce the students to the world of Persian prose literature. We will read a variety of prose genre. We will look at the semantics, morphology, and syntax and analyze the topic vis-à-vis these aspects. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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PERS 3019 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Persian group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PERS 3020 - Advanced Persian
The goal of this course is to increase student’s efficiency in reading modern texts; ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts, to poetry. although the students will be expected to learn grammatical structures emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context. Prerequisites: Persian 3010 or instructor’s permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 3029 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Persian group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PERS 3230 - Introduction to Classical Persian Literature
A comprehensive, historical introduction to Persian poetry and prose from the 10th to the 18th centuries. Emphasizing the history and development of Persian poetry and prose, this advanced-level language course introduces various formal elements of Persian literary tradition. It analyzes literary texts and explores the linguistic structure, fine grammatical points, and syntactic intricacies of classical Persian. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 3240 - Introduction to Modern Persian Literature
This course addresses the development of modern(ist) trends in Persian literature, emphasizing historical and socio-political factors. Exemplar modern poems, stories, and essays are read in the original, then explained and critically evaluated. Defines and discusses significant ideas, ideologies, movements, trends, milieus, social backgrounds, etc., out of which modern Persian literature emerged. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 4240 - Advanced Readings in Sufi Texts
A course designed to help advanced Persian language students develop skills in reading and understanding texts (both prose and poetry) on Persian Islamic mysticism (Sufism).
Credits: 3
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PERS 4991 - Independent Study in Persian
Independent Study in Persian
Credits: 1 to 3
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PERS 4993 - Independent Study in Persian
Independent study for advanced students of Persian. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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Persian in Translation |
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PETR 3210 - Persian Literature in Translation
Reading from the works of major figures in classical Persian literature, especially Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Attar, Mowlavi, Sa’adi, and Hafez, as well as the most important minor writers of each period. Emphasizes the role of the Ma’shuq (the beloved), Mamduh (the praised one), and Ma’bud (the worshiped one) in classical verse, as well as the use of allegory and similar devices in both prose and verse. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3220 - Twentieth-Century Persian Literature in Translation
Introduces modern Persian literature in the context of Iranian society and civilization. Lectures and discussions follow the development of modern Persian poetry and prose, and trace the influence of Western and other literature, as well as Iranian literary and cultural heritage, on the works of contemporary Iranian writers. Facilitates understanding of contemporary Iran, especially its people, both individually and collectively, with their particular problems and aspirations in the twentieth-century world. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3320 - Life Narratives & Iranian Women Writers
This seminar examines life narratives and other forms of literary output by Iranian women writers. We will examine the ways these writers have desegregated a predominantly all-male literary tradition, as well as their arrival at the forefront of a bloodless social movement. Some of the genres to be investigated include novels, short stories, poetry, autobiographies, memoirs, and films.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3322 - The Life and Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad
This course focuses on the life and art of Forugh Farrokhzad in a spectrum of genres that includes poetry, travel narratives, literary criticism, essays, and films by and about her. Although from the beginning of her literary career, Farrokhzad was a daring, often irreverent explorer of taboo topics, she was also deeply rooted in the Iranian culture. We study the body of her work to better understand Iran in the 1950-60s
Credits: 3
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PETR 3340 - Poetics of Existentialist Persian Literature
The existentialist literature of the Persian-speaking world has been a source of inspiration of poetics for the entire Middle East region. The objective of this course is the study of cognitive nuances embedded in the thematic and linguistic structure of Persian existentialist literature.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3342 - Life Narrative & Iranian Women Writers
While women’s autobiography has attracted growing scholarly attention as an evolving literary form, sustained scholarly study of the genre has largely focused on women’s autobiography in Europe and North America, with only a small group of isolated scholars addressing women’s autobiography in Islamic societies in general and Iran in particular. This course studies the genealogy and evolution of the genre.
Credits: 3
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Philosophy |
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PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy
Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and approaches. Topics include basic questions concerning morality, skepticism and the foundations of knowledge, the mind and its relation to the body, and the existence of God. Readings are drawn from classics in the history of philosophy and/or contemporary sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1410 - Forms of Reasoning
Analyzes the structure of informal arguments and fallacies that are commonly committed in everyday reasoning. The course will not cover symbolic logic in any detail. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1510 - Introductory Philosophy Seminars
Discussion groups devoted to some philosophical writing or topic. Information on the specific topic can be obtained from the philosophy department at course enrollment time. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1600 - Medieval Philosophy of the Mediterranean
A study of four of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages were Avicenna (980-1037), Averroes (1126-1198), Maimonides (1135-1204), and Aquinas (1225-1274).
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1610 - Philosophy of Religion
This course will read the work of present-day philosophers of religion. That means that in this course we will use contemporary philosophical methods to examine a number of different topics that have been of perennial interest to philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians. These topics include arguments for and against God’s existence, the problem of evil, the relationship between human freedom and divine foreknowledge.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1710 - Human Nature
Examines a wide variety of theories of human nature, with the aim of understanding how we can fulfill our nature and thereby live good, satisfying and meaningful lives. Focuses on the questions of whether it is in our nature to be rational, moral and/or social beings. Readings are taken from contemporary and historical sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1730 - Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy
Examines some of the central problems of moral philosophy and their sources in human life and thought. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1740 - Issues of Life and Death
Studies the fundamental principles underlying contemporary and historical discussions of such issues as abortion, euthanasia, suicide, pacifism, and political terror. Examines Utilitarian and anti-Utilitarian modes of thought about human life and the significance of death. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1750 - The Meaning of Life
What is the meaning of life? Does a meaningful life presuppose the existence of a divine being, or can human beings somehow create meaning? Does the certainty of death rob life of meaning, or provide it? These and related questions will be pursued through contemporary and classic texts by such authors as Sartre, Nagel, Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, and Epicurus.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1800 - Philosophy of Art
Art permeates our lives, yet it is hard to define what makes something a work of art, or what the purpose of art is. In tis course we will explore the philosophy of art. We will look at what some of the great philosophical figures of the past have thought about art, as well as looking at contemporary approaches.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2000 - Internship in Philosophy: Teaching Philosophy in High Schools
Students will intern in area high schools to work with teachers in support of their teaching of philosophy. In preparation for this, students will learn about the aims of the teachers with whom they intern, as well as the challenges they face. Students will support teachers with the construction of lesson plans, reading material, discussion points, and paper topics.
Credits: 2
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PHIL 2020 - Know Thyself
Investigation of the nature and significance of our knowledge of ourselves, employing perspectives from Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Experimental Psychology, Neurosciences, and Buddhism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2060 - Philosophical Problems in Law
Examines and evaluates some basic practices and principles of Anglo-American law. Discusses the justification of punishment, the death penalty, legal liability, good samaritan laws, and the legal enforcement of morality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2070 - Knowledge and Reality
Knowledge and Reality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2110 - History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval
Survey of the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratic period through the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2120 - History of Philosophy: Modern
Surveys the history of modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes and extending up to the nineteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2330 - Computers, Minds and Brains
Do computers think? Can a persuasive case be made for the claim that the human mind is essentially a sophisticated computing device? These and related questions will be examined through readings in computer science, the philosophy of mind, logic, and linguistics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2340 - The Computational Age
This course will address the effects of rapid technological advances on a number of new & traditional philosophical topics (potential changes in our concept of personal identity as a result of biological & cognitive enhancements the loss of privacy changes in the status of scientific evidence & the diminution of the role of human scientists as a result of automated instrumentation, computationally based simulations, and computer proof methods).
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2420 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Introduces the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic, including both sentential and quantifier logic, as well as proof, interpretation, translation, and validity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2450 - Philosophy of Science
Introduces the philosophy of science. Topics include experiment, casual inference, models, scientific explanation, theory structure, hypothesis testing, realism and anti-realism, the relations between science and technology, science versus non-science, and the philosophical assumptions of various sciences. Illustrations are drawn from the natural, biological, and social sciences, but no background in any particular science is presupposed. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2500 - Survey on a Philosophical Topic
A lecture series on the various topics central to Philosophy.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2510 - Seminar in Philosophy
Seminars aimed at showing how philosophical problems arise in connection with subjects of general interest. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2520 - Seminar in Bioethics
Topics vary annually. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2640 - Rational Choice and Happiness
In this class, we will examine philosophical puzzles about our ability to make rational choices that affect or determine our own happiness. How can we rationally decide to undergo a significant experience - such as having a child or moving to a new country - when have no way of knowing what that experience will be like? How can we rationally choose to make decisions about our future?
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2645 - The Good Life
What does it takes to live a good life. Does your life go well for you if you accomplish good things but you aren’t happy? Does your life go well for you if your desires are satisfied? How do we make rational choices about our future well-being when those very choices determine who we will become and what we will want? How do we evaluate the claims of people who value parts of their lives that many think bad?
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2650 - Free Will and Responsibility
Examines whether our actions and choices are free and whether or to what extent we can be held responsible for them. Includes the threat to freedom posed by the possibility of scientific explanations of our behavior and by psychoanalysis, the concept of compulsion, moral and legal responsibility, and the nature of human action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2660 - Philosophy of Religion
Considers the problems raised by arguments for and against the existence of God; discussion of such related topics as evil, evidence for miracles, and the relation between philosophy and theology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2670 - God
A detailed examination of the philosophical concept of God and also of diverse arguments for and against His existence, including various ontological arguments, causal arguments, the arguments from design, and the argument from evil.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2690 - Justice, Law, and Morality
Examines contemporary liberal theories of justice and of communitarian, Marxist, libertarian, utilitarian, and feminist criticisms of these theories. Uses landmark Supreme Court decisions to illuminate central theoretical disputes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2720 - Bioethics: A Philosophical Perspective
Surveys biomedical ethics, emphasizing philosophical issues and methods. Includes moral foundations of the physician/patient relation, defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatments, euthanasia, abortion, prenatal diagnosis, new reproductive technologies, human genetics, human experimentation, and the allocation and rationing of health care resources. Reflects on the various ethical theories and methods of reasoning that might be brought to bear on practical moral problems. Not open to those who have taken RELG 2650. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2730 - Ethics and Film
This course is designed both as an introduction to philosophy through moral issues, and as an exploration of film as a medium for ethical reflection. It focuses on the moving image and its potentila as a mode of philosophical thinking and examines the pertinence of ethical theories to particular issues, as these arise in contemporary films.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2740 - Ethics of Violence
This course will study philosophical issues arising from the encounter and conflict between different cultures. Focusing on the Spanish conquest of the Americas will address the general question of whether there is a just war, relating this discussion to fundamental questions in contemporary ethics and political philosophy.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2750 - Democracy
Examines competing conceptions of the democratic ideal, both in the work of historic figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Madison and Mill, and in the work of a variety of contemporary political philosophers. Focuses in particular on the relation to the democratic ideal of majoritarian voting, civic association, public deliberation and basic liberal rights. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2760 - Classics of Political Philosophy
Considers some of the perennial questions in political philosophy through an examination of classical works in the field, including some or all of the following: Aristotle’s Politics, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau’s On the Social Contract. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2770 - Political Philosophy
This course deals with the most basic problems of political philosophy. Discusses the justification of the state, political obligation and disobedience, social justice, demoncracy, and the morality of international politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2780 - Ancient Political Thought
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans, including such works as Plato’s REPUBLIC, Aristotle’s POLITICS and Cicero’s DE RE PUBLICA. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 2850 - Finding the Way: Some Philosophical Projects
Examines pressing issues of the examined life, especially those ethical (How should I live?), epistemological (how and what can I know?) & overlapping both. Authors include Plato, Mencius, Marcus Aurelius, Gautama, & Laozi. Topics include testimony; virtue; skepticism; the value of knowledge, society & systematic world views; moral progress; and epistemic injustice. Combines classics with contemporary work. Argumentative essays & creative writing.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3010 - Darwin and Philosophy
This course investigates the history and the scientific and philosophical implications of Darwin’s revolutionary idea that the wholly unguided process of natural selection could explain the magnificent variety and adaptedness of living things and their descent from a common ancestor. One of the philosophical topics we will explore is how scientific theories are supported by evidence and how science yields knowledge
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3110 - Plato
Introduces the philosophy of Plato, beginning with several pre-Socratic philosophers. Focuses on carefully examining selected Platonic dialogues. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3120 - Aristotle
An introduction to the philosophy of Aristotle, covering his major works in ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and literary theory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3130 - Hellenistic Philosophy
This course will focus on Epicurean and Stoic philosophy. We will discuss issues in ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, physics, psychology and religion. Prerequisite: at least one previous Philosophy course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3140 - History of Medieval Philosophy
Examines the continued development of philosophy from after Aristotle to the end of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3150 - 17th Century Philosophy
Studies the central philosophers in the rationalist tradition.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3160 - 18th Century Philosophy
Studies the central philosophers in the empiricist tradition.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3170 - Kant
Primarily a study of Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, followed by a brief look at the views of some of Idealist successors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3180 - Nietzsche
A comprehensive study of the philosophy of Nietzsche, with an examination of his views on life, truth, philosophy, art, morality, nihilism, values and their creation, will to power, eternal recurrence, and more. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: instructor permission (previous course in philosophy preferred)
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3190 - Wittgenstein
Study of Wittgenstein’s major works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: two PHIL courses or instructor permission; PHIL 2420 recommended.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3310 - Metaphysics
Examines central metaphysical issues such as time, the existence of God, causality and determinism, universals, possibility and necessity, identity, and the nature of metaphysics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3320 - Epistemology
Studies problems concerned with the foundations of knowledge, perception, and rational belief. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3330 - Philosophy of Mind
Studies some basic problems of philosophical psychology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3400 - Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3500 - Seminar in Philosophy
Topics change from semester to semester and year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3520 - Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
Studies some recent contemporary philosophical movement, writing, or topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3610 - Aesthetics
Critically investigates central philosophical issues raised by artistic activity: To count as an artwork must a thing have a modicum of aesthetic value, or is it enough that it be deemed art by the community? Is aesthetic value entirely in the eye of the beholder or is there such a thing as being wrong in one’s judgment concerning an artwork? including Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Pears.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3630 - Philosophy of Language
Examines central conceptual problems raised by linguistic activity. Among topics considered are the relation between thought and language; the possibility of an essentially private discursive realm; the view that one’s linguistic framework somehow ‘structures’ reality; and the method of solving or dissolving philosophical problems by scrutiny of the language in which they are couched. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: At least one course in philosophy at the 1000 level or above, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3650 - Justice and Health Care
Philosophical account of health care practices and institutions viewed against the backdrop of leading theories of justice (e.g., utilitarianism, Rawlsian contractarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism). Topics include the nature, justifications, and limits of a right to health care; the value conflicts posed by cost containment, implicit and explicit rationing, and reform of the health care system; the physician-patient relationship in an era of managed care; and the procurement and allocation of scarce life-saving resources, such as expensive drugs and transplantable organs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: course in ethics of political philosophy from any department, such as RELG 2650, PHIL 1740, PLPT 3010, etc.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3651 - Genes, Nature and Justice
What is a normal human being? What is the natural course for the human species? What does justice have to do with our genes? The emergence of technology allowing the manipulation of the human genome raises a number of ethical social, and political problems. This class will explore these challenges through philosophical argument. In particular, we will attempt to wrestle with notions such as natural, human being, perfection, enhancement and cure. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3652 - Animals and Ethics
This course will examine the moral status of non-human animals and what the major ethical theories imply for our treatment of animals, including in scientific research and food. In an effort to examine their moral status, we will explore the questions of whether and to what extent animals experience pain and emotions.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3670 - Law and Society
Examines competing theories of law; the role of law in society; the legitimacy of restrictions on individual liberties; legal rights and conflicts of rights; and the relationships between law and such social values as freedom, equality, and justice. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3710 - Ethics
History of modern ethical theory (Hobbes to Mill) with especial emphasis on the texts of Hume (Treatise, Book III) and Kant, (Grundlegung), which will be studied carefully and critically. Among the topics to be considered: Is morality based on reason? Is it necessarily irrational not to act morally? Are moral standards objective? Are they conventional? Is it a matter of luck whether we are morally virtuous? Is the morally responsible will a free will? Are all reasons for acting dependent on desires? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3720 - Contemporary Ethics
Studies Anglo-American ethics since 1900. While there are selected readings from G. E. Moore, W. D. Ross, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson and R. M. Hare, emphasis is on more recent work. Among the topics to be considered: Are there moral facts? Are moral values relative? Are moral judgments universalizable? Are they prescriptive? Are they cognitive? What is to be said for utilitarianism as a moral theory? What against it? And what are the alternatives? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3730 - Ancient Ethical Theory
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3780 - Reproductive Ethics
The focus of the course will be the exploration of various moral, legal and policy issues posed by efforts to curtail or enhance fertility through contraception, abortion, and recent advances in reproductive technology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One prior course in ethics from any department.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3790 - Research Ethics
Canvasses the history of research scandals (e.g., Nuremberg, Tuskegee) resulting in federal regulation of human subjects research. Critically assesses the randomized clinical trial (including informed consent, risk/benefit ratio, randomization, placebos). Examines the ethics of research with special populations, such as the cognitively impaired, prisoners, children, embryos and fetuses, and animals. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One course in ethics or bioethics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3800 - Feminist Philosophy
In this class, we’ll first examine the question ‘What is gender?’ Then we’ll look at ways in which gender can interact with traditional philosophical topics, including epistemology, philosophy of language, political philosophy, etc.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3810 - Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
In this class, we’ll be talking about philosophical issues at the intersection of sexuality, sexual experience, and gender experience. What is sexual consent? What is the relationship between sexual consent and sexual morality? What is sexual orientation, and what is its relationship to sex and gender? Is there such a thing as biological sex? Is there a difference between sex and gender?
Credits: 3
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PHIL 3999 - Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty
Examination of the nature and function of liberty in social theorists such as Adam Smith, JJ Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls, Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 4010 - Seminar for Majors
Topic changes from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Philosophy majors.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 4020 - Seminar for Majors
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 4500 - Special Topics in Philosophy
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 4990 - Honors Program
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the departmental honors program.
Credits: 1 to 15
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PHIL 4993 - Directed Reading and Research
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PHIL 4995 - Directed Reading and Research
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 1 to 3
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