Catalog - Virginia Intermont College

Programs of Study 231
103-LOGIC. This is a study of the fundamentals of the thinking processes. The
course investigates the various approaches to valid reasoning and argumentation
through the uses of definition, interpretation, analysis, syllogism, and value
judgment.
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered spring semester
(alternate years).
207-THE QUEST FOR MEANING. This course examines the experience of personal
alienation from a sense of purpose in life. Growth and maturity in the search for
meaning will be explored along psychological, religious, and philosophical lines.
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall semester (alternate
years).
301-EXISTENTIALISM. This course is an introduction to the major issues of
existentialism including freedom and determinism, individuality, essence versus
existence, anxiety, involvement, alienation, authentic existence, and the search
for meaning in life. There will be some introduction to the thought of Dostoyevsky,
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, and Sartre.
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered as needed.
330-ETHICS AND ECOLOGY. This is an ethics and ecology class studied from
historical, religious, and philosophical perspectives. The course will study
the impact of Man upon the environment (Nature) and how this impact had
been influenced by contemporary philosophies and religious views of Man’s
relationship to Nature. Philosophical and religious views ranging from pre-
Christina pantheism, through eastern religions, to modern Christianity and other
mainstream religions, to modern Christianity and other mainstream religions will
be studied. Contemporary documents and artworks will be used to illustrate the
course.
Credit, three semester hours. Offered as needed.
340-HONORS ETHICS AND ECOLOGY. This is an ethics and ecology class studied
from historical, religious, an philosophical perspectives. The course will study
the impact of Man upon the environment (Nature) and how this impact had
been influenced by contemporary philosophies and religious views of Man’s
relationship to Nature. Philosophical and religious views ranging from pre-
Christina pantheism, through eastern religions, to modern Christianity and other
mainstream religions will be studied. Contemporary documents and artworks will
be used to illustrate the course.
Credit, three semester hours. Offered as needed.
Virginia Intermont College 2012–2013 College Catalog