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NCPR 502 - Investment Planning
Provides an understanding of the various types of securities traded in financial markets, investment theory and practice, portfolio construction and management, and investment strategies and tactics. Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Statistics. Prerequisites: Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, and Statistics.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 503 - Income Tax Planning
Focuses on principles and current law and practice of income taxation and its impact on financial planning for individuals, couples, and families in their roles as investors, employees, and business owners. Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Statistics. Prerequisites: Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, and Statistics.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 504 - Retirement Planning
Focuses on retirement preparation. Includes topics such as the importance of retirement planning, an evaluation of the clients needs, an understanding of Social Security and Medicare, and qualified and non-qualified retirement plans. Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Statistics.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 505 - Estate Planning
Focuses on the efficient conservation and transfer of wealth consistent with the clients goals. Studies the legal, tax, financial, and non-financial aspects of this process, and covers topics such as trusts, wills, probate, advanced directives, charitable giving, wealth transfers, and related taxes. Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, and Statistics. Prerequisite: Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, and Statistics.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 506 - Capstone: Financial Planning
Engages students in critical thinking and decision-making about personal financial management topics in the context of the financial planning process. Focuses on refining and developing skills for personal financial planners when working with individuals, families, and business owners in meeting financial needs and objectives. Recommended but not required: Financial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Statistics.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 507 - Professional Leadership Development Seminar
Examines the infrastructure of various selected aspects of agriculture, business, education, engineering, government, industrial, science, medicine, technology, and urban planning, development and zoning. Provides an indepth perspective of the governing entities and skills required to provide effective and creative leadership.
Credits: 0
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NCPR 508 - Ethical Issues in Financial Services
Examines and reviews the code of ethics required and set forth by the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards, Inc.
Credits: 0
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Pathology |
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PATH 8050 - Colloquium in Human Disease Research
(Formerly PRPR) The purpose of this course is to introduce new graduate students to the scientific literature in human disease, and to give them experience in interpreting, discussing, and presenting both research publications and their own progress on research projects. Enrollees will be expected to present at least one research literature report each semester.
Credits: 1
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PATH 8060 - Rotation in Diagnostic and Interventional Medicine
A four-week rotation in several facets of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. These rotations will expose students to clinical problems and hands-on techniques such as tissue procurement, processing, and diagnosis. Students will attend Clinical Conferences in which cases of human diseases related to the students’ areas of thesis research are discussed. This rotation will allow students to discuss their thesis research with faculty members to further refine their ideas. Students are encouraged to select one of these faculty members to serve on their Graduate Committee.
Credits: 4
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PATH 8130 - Topics in the Molecular Basis of Human Disease I
A series of joint lectures by basic and clinical scientists that focuses on the clinical context of a specific biomedical problem and the contemporary research that has resulted in major advances and treatment of the disease. Note: Students may take part II before part I of this course.
Credits: 2
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PATH 8140 - Topics in the Molecular Basis of Human Disease II
This is a series of joint lectures by basic and clinical scientists that focuses on the clinical context of a specific biomedical problem and the contemporary research that has resulted in major advances and treatment of the disease. Note: Students may take part II before part I of this course. This is a series of joint lectures by basic and clinical scientists that focuses on the clinical context of a specific biomedical problem and the contemporary research that has resulted in major advances and treatment of the disease.
Credits: 2
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PATH 8280 - Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology
This course will review clinical conditions caused by aberrant performance of the immune system, including their clinical presentations and consequences. Students will appreciate the pathological and immune dysfunction responsible for each disease and important areas of contemporary immune research that address critical components of each disease’s pathogenesis. Students will propose, delineate, and critique a focused research plan. Prerequisite: MICR 8040: Fundamentals in Cancer Biology, MICR 8200: Building Blocks of the Immune System, and MICR 8203: Integration and Diversification of the Immune System
Credits: 2
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PATH 8300 - Tumors and the Immune System
This module will allow students to gain comprehensive understanding of the extensive interactions between the immune system and neoplasia. The course will focus on discussion of contemporary literature. Students with interests in either cancer biology or immunology are encouraged to register.
Credits: 2
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PATH 8320 - Historical Perspectives in Cancer Research
The course will cover various aspects of the history of cancer research. The textbook for the course will the “The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Discussion of the material in this book will be supplemented by critical examination of the “classic” literature followed by consideration of how the same problem/question today.
Credits: 2
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PATH 8440 - Pathology Projects
Research rotation projects for medical or graduate students with an interest in Pathology.
Credits: 3 to 12
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PATH 8460 - Seminars in Human Disease and Molecular Medicine
Weekly presentations from speakers within and outside of UVA presenting descriptions, problems, and cur-rent approaches to diagnosis, molecular basis, and treatment of human disease. Presentations will usually contain both clinical and laboratory research, though occasionally reports of disease model systems will be presented.
Credits: 1
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PATH 8470 - Readings in Molecular Medicine
Modern lit. in MolMed for MD/PhD trainees. Faculty select 2 rsch papers illustrating methods and avenues in molec. and cellular underpinnings of human disease. Students read and understand papers in-advance, present background and results, interpretation, and background info. from secondary sources to illustrate current understanding; preparing others for discussion. Grade is based on level of participation and understanding of materials.
Credits: 2
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PATH 8640 - Clinical Oncology for Basic and Translational Scientists
This is a 6-week seminar course designed to present an overview of selected aspects of the clinical cancer diagnosis and care by cancer practitioners. Selected vignettes demonstrating issues and technologies will be presented, together with a discussion of cutting edge approaches and current problems confronting clinicians and patients. There will also be an emphasis on investigator-clinician collaborations.
Credits: 1
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PATH 8920 - Topics in Human Disease Literature
This course presents the opportunity to participate in a weekly journal club on selected topical research areas of relevance to the student’s interests. Areas of participation include cancer, signal transduction, transcription and differentiation, immunology, infectious disease, reproduction, and neuropathology.
Credits: 1
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PATH 9995 - Topical Research
Original research on approved problems.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PATH 9999 - Non-Topical Research
Dissertation research credit for students who have completed their advancement to candidacy.
Credits: 1 to 12
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Persian |
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PERS 5020 - Readings in Modern Persian Prose Fiction
Examines the works of this century’s major writers, focusing on the development of modern Persian fiction as it reflects a changing society. Improves Persian reading ability and familiarity with Iran, its people, and its culture. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 5230 - 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 equiv.
Credits: 3
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PERS 8993 - 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 5210 - 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 5220 - 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 5320 - 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 5322 - 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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Pharmacology |
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PHAR 7010 - Seminar in Pharmacology
Recent developments in pharmacology are presented by outside speakers at weekly intervals to faculty, staff and students. Students may participate by meeting with the speaker during the day of the seminar. One hour weekly during both the first and second semesters.
Credits: 1
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PHAR 7020 - Seminar in Pharmacology
Recent developments in pharmacology are presented by outside speakers at weekly intervals to faculty, staff and students. Students may participate by meeting with the speaker during the day of the seminar. One hour weekly during both the first and second semesters.
Credits: 1
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PHAR 8110 - Pharmacology Literature
A continuing seminar based on papers in the current literature. Required participation by departmental faculty, fellows, and graduate students. One hour per week.
Credits: 1
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PHAR 8120 - Pharmacology Literature
A continuing seminar based on papers in the current literature. Required participation by departmental faculty, fellows, and graduate students. One hour per week.
Credits: 1
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PHAR 8140 - Tutorial in Pharmacology
Students meet for one hour per week with assigned tutors and discuss, in depth, problems related to pharmacology.
Credits: 1
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PHAR 9001 - Survey of Pharmacology, Part 1
The course will cover the major classes of therapeutically relevant drugs, and how they work at the molecular and cellular levels. The major topics include: general principles, chemical mediators, drugs affecting major organ systems and chemotherapy of infectious and malignant disease.
Prerequisite: PHY 8040 and PHY 8041 or Instructor Permissions
Credits: 2
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PHAR 9002 - Survey of Pharmacology, Part 2
The course will cover the major classes of therapeutically relevant drugs and how they work at the molecular and cellular levels. The major topics include: general principles, chemical mediators, drugs affecting major organ systems, and chemotherapy of infectious and malignant disease. Prerequisite: PHAR 9001
Credits: 2
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PHAR 9003 - Molecular Targets
Course goals are to instruct students in the molecular targets popular for medicines and the strategies used for target validation and to help students develop effective written and oral presentation skills. Students will prepare and present an NIH R21-style grant proposal integrated with faculty-led case studies, class discussions, mock study sections and lectures.
Credits: 2
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PHAR 9004 - Discovering Drugs
This course delves into technologies and concepts that guide drug discovery. Students will prepare and present an NIH R21-style grant proposal to develop effective written and oral presentation skills. By integrating faculty-led case studies, class discussions, lectures and mock study sections students will learn how to drug their favorite molecular target.
Credits: 2
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PHAR 9500 - Special Topics in Pharmacology
Special Topics in Pharmacology
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHAR 9995 - Research in Pharmacology
Original research on approved problems.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHAR 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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Philosophy |
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PHIL 5420 - Advanced Logic
Examines various results in metalogic, including completeness, compactness, and undecidability. Effective computability, theories of truth, and identity may also be covered. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: PHIL 2420 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5450 - Language and Logic
This course will examine, in light of classical readings and with the aid of the techniques of formal semantics and formal pragmatics, topics that have been given the most intense treatment: distinction between sense and reference, nature of meaning, relation between thought and language, etc.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5460 - Philosophy of Science
Logical analysis of the structure of theories, probability, causality, and testing of theories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5470 - Philosophy of Mathematics
Comparison of various schools in the philosophy of mathematics (including logicism, formalism, and conceptualism) and their answers to such questions as ‘Do numbers exist?’ and ‘How is mathematical knowledge possible?’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Some familiarity with quantifier logic or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5480 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Problems studied include explanation in the social sciences; the place of theory; objectivity; the relation between social science and natural science, philosophy, and literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Six credits of philosophy or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 5760 - Global Justice, Health & Human Rights
This seminar attempts to expand the horizons of bioethics to include a set of important issues impacting global health. The focus is on current work in political phil bearing on the rationale and limits of political toleration; assistance to the ‘distant needy’; nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism; the objectives and measures of human development;and the proposed role of human rights as a transcultural lingua franca for international ethics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7110 - Plato
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7120 - Aristotle
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7330 - 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 7341 - Mental Content
Examines a variety of issues concerning the nature of mental content, including one or more of the following. (1) The ontological status of mental content: Does mental content relate us to abstract objects? What are the prospects for naturalizing intentionality? (2) The relationship between intentional content and phenomenal character: Are these distinct features of mental states, or is one of these properties reducible to the other?
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7450 - Topics in the Philosophy of Language
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7500 - First Year Seminar
Seminar for First Yr graduate students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7501 - Tutorial Instruction
Tutorial instruction. The student will attend lectures and cover the subjects of an undergraduate course, but will do additional reading and/or written work to strengthen their understanding of that philosophical area.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7502 - Readings in Philosophy
With the permission of the instructor, a student may arrange to take an undergraduate course for graduate credit under this designation. The student will attend lectures and cover the subjects of the undergraduate course, but will do additional reading and/or written work; the student’s work in the course will be graded on a scale appropriate for graduate course work.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7540 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Ethics Topic
A survey of ethical theory and moral status.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7575 - Seminar on the Philosophy of Science Topic
A seminar on the various topics with in the Philosophy of Science.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7631 - Rights
This seminar will examine the nature of and possible justifications for claims of right. Readings will be from both classical and contemporary sources. The works we read will be authored principally by philosophers, with a few pieces by political and legal theorists.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7632 - Rescue, Charity and Justice
This course examines arguments for and against moral and legal “positive” duties (to assist others). We consider possible duties to give emergency aid (rescue), to improve the condition of the needy (charity), and to impose more equitable distributions of goods within and between nations (justice).
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7634 - The Duty to Obey the Law
This seminar will examine philosophical debates concerning the duty to obey the law (or political obligation) and the grounds for various kinds of legal disobedience. Readings will be from contemporary sources in political philosophy and legal theory.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7640 - Philosophy of History
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7710 - Ethics
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7720 - Contemporary Ethics
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 7770 - Political 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 7995 - Supervised Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHIL 8161 - Hume and Kant on Ethics
In the seminar we will examine the moral theories of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, in that order. The main texts are Hume’s Treatise and Kant’s Groundwork, but considerable attention will be given as well to Hume’s second Enquiry and to Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Metaphysics of Morals.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8320 - Contemporary Epistemology
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8340 - Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Mind. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8360 - Experience
The course addresses recent literature on the following questions: (1) what is the ontological nature of experience? (sense-data theories vs. state theories vs. disjunctivism); (2) is the phenomenal character of experience exhausted by its representational content? (representationalism vs. qualia realism); (3) does experience contain any nonconceptual representational content? (4) are the intrinsic features of experience introspectible?
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8370 - Possible Worlds
This seminar focuses on the metaphysics of possibility and necessity, along with other related topics. It’s central texts are Alvin Plantinga’s “The Nature of Necessity” and David Lewis’s “On the Plurality of Worlds”.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8420 - Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics
Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8460 - Philosophy of Science
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philoosphers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8540 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Ethics Topic
A survey of ethical theory and moral status.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8640 - Law and 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 8995 - Supervised Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHIL 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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