2009-2010 Undergraduate Course Catalog - University of Regina

PAST 340 3:3-3
Contemporary Spirituality
This course will define the circumference of an adequate Christian
spirituality from: (a) an individual and personal viewpoint; (b) a
broader historical focus; and, (c) an academic stance that will supply
the tools for one's personal critical assessment.
** Permission of Director is required to register. **
PAST 390 1-3:3-0
Selected Topics in Pastoral Studies - an AA-ZZ series.
This course will examine selected topics in Pastoral Studies in some
detail. Topics may include: life-span development and pastoral care,
pastoral care in parishes, and pastoral care in schools.
PAST 400 0:0-3
Pastoral Studies Practicum
This is a required course for all students. With support from the
practicum supervisor, students will become directly involved in
pastoral counseling to clients in the community. This practicum is 80
hours in duration, however, the exact days or hours per day will be
negotiated between the student and the agency.
*** Prerequisite: PAST 310 and PAST 320 ***
PHIL
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
and Classics
For Classical Studies courses please refer to the entry under CLAS –
Classical Studies.
PHIL 100 3:3-0
Introduction to Philosophy
This introduction to philosophy will explore how philosophy can
provide answers to some of the more profound questions we face,
such as questions concerning God, knowledge, truth, mind and body,
personal identity, free will, morality, politics and reasoning.
* Note: Topics will vary with sections of this course. *
PHIL 150 3:3-3
Critical Thinking
An introduction to the systematic study of reasoning, this course will
teach the theory and practice of good reasoning. It will provide
students with reasoning skills that are useful in whichever discipline
and career they may pursue.
* Note: Formerly named LGC 100. Students may receive credit for
one of LGC 100 or PHIL 150. *
PHIL 210 3:3-0
Pre-Socratics and Plato
A critical survey of philosophy concentrating on the pre-Socratics and
Plato. Special attention will be given to historical continuity between
theories and to the genesis of perennial philosophical problems.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 211 3:3-0
Aristotle and Later Greek Philosophy
A critical survey of philosophy concentrating on Aristotle and later
Greek philosophers such as the Stoics, the Epicureans, and Plotinus.
Topics may include language, ethics, psychology, politics, and other
major divisions of human thought.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 212 3:3-0
Medieval Philosophy
A study of the work of major philosophers from the 5th to the 15th
century selectively drawing from the writings of Boethius, Augustine,
Abelard, Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and Ockham.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 213 3:3-0
Early Modern Philosophy
A critical examination of some of the works of the major empiricist and
rationalist philosophers. The philosophers discussed will be selected
from Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
Special attention will be given to the conflict between empiricism and
rationalism.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 214 3:3-0
Late Modern Philosophy
A critical survey of philosophy in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The background of contemporary philosophy and its historical
continuity will be developed with such philosophers as Hegel, Marx,
Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Mach, and James.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 216 3:3-0
Existential Philosophy
A discussion of the writings of representative existentialist thinkers,
including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, Marcel, Sartre,
and Camus.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 231 3:3-0
Philosophical Issues in Psychology
An introduction to philosophical issues in psychology which will
include many but not all of the following topics: consciousness, mental
representation, motivation, emotion, personality, intentionality,
psychological explanation, artificial intelligence, perception, innatism,
and the relation between psychology and neurophysiology.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 and either of PSYC 101 or PSYC 102, or
completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 235 3:3-3
Knowledge and Reality
A critical examination of the core questions in Epistemology and
Metaphysics. What is Knowledge How does knowledge differ from
mere belief Is it possible for us to have it What are its scope and
limits What is the ultimate nature of reality What is a person What
is a mind What is free will and do we have it
*** Prerequisite: Philosophy 100 or 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 241 3:3-0
Philosophy of Science
A critical examination of some of the problems of the nature of
scientific theory, the status of scientific laws, induction and the
foundation of probability, confirmation, analysis of causality, and the
nature of scientific explanation.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: This course is an elective in the Science and Technology
Studies minor. *
PHIL 242 3:3-0
Philosophy of Religion
An analysis of religious claims concerning the existence of God,
religious experience, faith, revelation, and immortality. Modern and
contemporary works will receive major attention.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 243 3:3-0
Philosophy of Human Nature
A study of classical and contemporary views on human nature. These
views will be drawn from a variety of philosophical traditions such as
the classical and medieval tradition, the Cartesian view, and the
dialectical tradition, as well as recent views to be found in the writings
of naturalistic, analytic, phenomenological, and existential
philosophers.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 244 3:3-0
Philosophical Study of Angels
A critical examination in speculative metaphysics of the idea of angels
which will investigate arguments both for the possibility and for the
actual existence of such beings, as well as an exploration into the
possibilities of what such beings might be like.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 245 3:3-0
Philosophy of Feminism
A philosophical examination of key issues of and about feminism.
Topics may include: feminist epistemology, conceptions of equality,
censorship, pornography, employment equity.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
PHIL 270 3:3-0
Ethics
A critical introduction to the problems of moral philosophy, such as
good and evil, virtue and vice, right and wrong, and related moral
concepts. Readings will normally be selected from the following
philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant,
Hegel, Mill and Nietzsche.
*** Prerequisite: PHIL 100 or completion of 15 credit hours ***
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