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course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course DescriptionsPGMT-271Professional Golf Management Practicum II2 Credits (0:0:800 hours)Practicum is an integral part of the program that balances on-the-jobtraining and experience with completed coursework. Reporting to asenior manager, this practicum involves working full-time as a paid staffmember in a golf operation.Prerequisites: PGMT 171.PHIL-101Values and Society3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an introduction to philosophy through a studyof issues in ethics and social-political philosophy. Topics may includerelativism, justice, rights, obligation, utilitarianism, deontology andsocial contract theory. Contemporary issues in ethics and politics mayalso be discussed.PHIL-102Knowledge and Reality3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an introduction to philosophy through a study ofissues in metaphysics and epistemology. Topics may include appearanceand reality, the nature of knowledge, minds and bodies, personalidentity, death and immortality, free will, the nature of God, perception,causation and, space and time.PHIL-103Asian Philosophies3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an introduction to and survey of Eastern and AsianPhilosophies. The course investigates philosophical traditions, includingimportant schools and figures, from the histories of India, China andJapan. This includes a consideration of the Hindu or Brahmanicalphilosophies of the Vedas and Upanishads, Jainism, Buddhism(including Indian, Chinese and Japanese developments), Confucianism,and Taoism. Topics include the nature of reality, the nature ofsuffering and desire, the nature of a good life and good government,enlightenment, moral virtues, sageliness, views of Nature, and Easternconceptions of the self.PHIL-125Analytical Reasoning3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)In this course, students use elementary methods and principles foranalyzing reasoning as it occurs in everyday contexts. Topics mayinclude informal fallacies, introduction to scientific method, elementarystatistical reasoning, elementary sentential logic, as well as the study ofargument in contemporary debates about issues of social concern.PHIL-200Metaphysics3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)Metaphysics is in the area of philosophy that raises and responds tofundamental questions concerning the nature and structure of reality.In this course, students develop an understanding of metaphysicalquestions and their significance, as well as critically examine the waysphilosophers address these questions and the metaphysical issuesassociated with them. Topics of study may include appearance andreality, the mind-body problem, metaphysical idealism and realism,freedom and determinism, personal identity, time and space, anduniversals and particulars.PHIL-201Buddhist Philosophy3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course carries out a sustained investigation of Buddhist philosophy.This investigation considers the historical development of Buddhistphilosophical thought, beginning with its origin, development, andexpansion in India, through its movement into China and then intoJapan. The course considers, with the aim of coming to a philosophicalunderstanding, issues such as Buddhist conceptions of suffering,enlightenment, reality, rationality, self, mind, consciousness, meditationand the ethics of compassion. Comparisons with key philosophersand developments in the history of Western philosophy are alsodiscussed. Particular attention is given to philosophies in the MahayanaBuddhist tradition.PHIL-202Philosophies of China and Japan3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course carries out an investigation of the philosophies of Chinaand Japan, and focuses on Confucianism, Taoism, and Chineseand Japanese Buddhism. This involves, primarily, a considerationof historical movements, figures and schools, although somecontemporary figures may also be included. The discussion ofConfucianism centers on Confucian Social and Moral Philosophyand issues such as the nature of a good life and good government,sageliness, and Confucian moral virtues. The discussion of Taoismcenters on Taoist Metaphysics and issues such as the nature andmeaning of the Tao, the principle of wu-wei or no-action, and the Taoistunderstanding of a life lived in accordance with Nature. The discussionof Chinese and Japanese Buddhism focuses on Ch’an or Zen Buddhism(these are, respectively, Chinese and Japanese analogues) but HuaYen or Kegon Buddhism, and Tien Tai or Nichiren Buddhism may beconsidered. Issues here center on the Buddhist Philosophy of Mind, andinclude the nature of enlightenment, self and rationality.PHIL-205Philosophy of Mind3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course examines basic questions concerning the nature ofmind, theories that try to explain the relation of mind and brain,and the issues that these theories raise. The topics of discussion mayinclude Cartesian Dualism, materialism, behaviourism, identitytheory, functionalism, qualia, intentionality, artificial intelligence, selfand consciousness.PHIL-210Symbolic Logic3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)An introduction to modern symbolic logic, including the basicconcepts of justification, argument, deduction, validity and soundness,translation of ordinary language into symbolic form, using sententialand predicate designators, carrying out truth functional analyses forvalidity and invalidity, using rules of inference and equivalence to provevalidity of arguments, using methods of conditional and indirect proofin sentential and quantified forms. Note: Credit can only be obtainedin one of PHIL 210 or PHIL 120.PHIL-215Epistemology3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course is a study of such central topics in the theory of knowledgeas truth and rationality, scepticism and the limits of knowledge,relativism and the objectivity of knowledge, the role of perception,memory and reason as sources of knowledge.348Grant MacEwan University • A C A D E m I CRefer to the Online Alberta Transfer Guide at www.transferalberta.ca for transfer opportunitiesC A L E N D A R 2012/2013 • www.MacEwan.ca
PHIL-220Symbolic Logic II3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course is an intensive study of predicate logic with identity. Topicsinclude translation of ordinary language into symbolic form, semantics,tree tests for consistency and validity, derivations in natural deductionsystems, mathematical induction, and soundness and completeness.Topics may also include theories of definite descriptions, elementarymodal logic, and formal axiomatic systems.Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in PHIL 210 or equivalent.PHIL-230Ancient Western Philosophy3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides a survey of ancient philosophy from thePresocratics to the Neoplatonists. Particular emphasis is placed on theworks of Plato and Aristotle.PHIL-240Descartes to Kant3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an examination of the history of modernphilosophy through a close reading of some of the major rationalist,empiricist, and transcendental idealist contributors of the period suchas Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant.PHIL-247Continental Philosophy: Heidegger to Foucault3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an introduction to twentieth century continentalEuropean philosophy through a close reading of some of the century’smajor philosophical contributors such as Husserl, Heidegger,Levinas, Derrida, Foucault and Badiou. Specific topics may include:phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, post-structuralism, andmaterialist dialectics.PHIL-250Ethics3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course involves an examination of fundamental questions andtheoretical answers in the philosophical discipline of ethics. Through adetailed study of important and influential texts in the philosophy ofethics, students develop the ability to understand and critically assessvarious philosophical systems of thought concerning moral judgementsand ethical obligations.PHIL-265Philosophy of Science3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course introduces central issues in contemporary philosophy ofscience. Topics may include theory evaluation, paradigm shifts andtheory change, laws of nature, causation and explanation, the rationalityof science and its social and historical setting.PHIL-270Social and Political Philosophy3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course provides an introduction to social and political philosophy.The course poses the following questions: what is the nature of politics;what is the state; what is civil society; what (if any) are citizens’political obligations and rights’ Readings will be drawn from canonicphilosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes,Spinoza, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx.PHIL-280Aesthetics3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course is an introduction to the theories of art, aestheticexperience, aesthetic judgement, and the role of art in society.PHIL-291Existentialism3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course is an introduction to the background and main themes ofexistentialist philosophy. Consideration is given to philosophical andliterary ideas stemming from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heideggerand others in the areas of religion, theatre, literature, psychologyand education.PHIL-301Comparative Philosophy3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course examines issues from the areas of metaphysics,epistemology, ethics and social and political philosophy through astudy of texts and thinkers in classical and modern Western traditionsand classical and modern non-Western, particularly Asian, traditions.PHIL-305Philosophy of Psychology3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course examines the philosophical foundations of psychology,with particular attention to philosophical issues concerningmethodology, mind, and cognition. Topics may include Weaknessof Will, Perception, Rationality and Delusion, Linguistic Nativism,Consciousness, Qualia, Wide versus Narrow Content, ArtificialIntelligence, Self and Subjectivity, and Intentionality.PHIL-325Risk, Choice and Rationality3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course is a study of the formal theory of rationality, includingprobability and induction and elementary decision theory, withattention to the paradoxes of choice.PHIL-330Plato3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)With a view to both theoretical and moral issues, this course engagesin a focused study of Plato and his philosophy. Students will engage inclose readings of some of Plato’s writings and will evaluate secondaryliterature on Plato. Some consideration may also be given to AcademicPlatonism and neo-Platonism.Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 3 credits of 200-levelphilosophy coursesPHIL-331Philosophy of Love3 Credits (45:0:0 hours)This course engages in a philosophical investigation of love. Through astudy of classic works of philosophy, students examine the experienceof love, the meaning of love, the value of love, and philosophy’srelationship to love. Special attention will be paid to Plato’s theory oflove as it is expressed in the Symposium.Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 3 credits of 200-levelphilosophy courses.course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course Descriptions • course DescriptionsGrant MacEwan University • A C A D E m I CRefer to the Online Alberta Transfer Guide at www.transferalberta.ca for transfer opportunitiesC A L E N D A R 2012/2013 • www.MacEwan.ca349
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President's Message • Message fro
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ANDPROTECTIO
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Campus LocationsFor hours of operat
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ServicesABORIGINAL EDUCATION CENTRE
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STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION OF MacEwanU
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ADMISSIONSContentsA. General Admiss
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I. Advanced Placement (AP) CoursesF
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Alberta High School TranscriptsYou
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D. CHANGES IN PROGRAMSAfter the Ter
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FeesGENERAL FEES INFORMATIONPlannin
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POLICIES AND REGULATIONSContentsA.
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Student Discipline Reference Chart(
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English as a Second LanguageFaculty
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External TransferAll courses comple
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AcupunctureFaculty of Health and Co
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PROGRAM OF STUDYDesign Foundations
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PROGRAM OF STUDYYear I*MINTERM IcR.
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Human Resources ManagementSchool of
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Management StudiesSchool of Busines
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TRANSFERABILITYInternal Opportuniti
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Golf ManagementTrevor Goplin, Dip.
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PROGRAM OF STUDYYear I*MINTERM IcR.
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MUSICCentre for the Arts and Commun
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TERM IVMUSC 204 Arranging II 3MUSC
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PROGRAM OF STUDYcR.TERM IENGL 111 C
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Professional Golf ManagementSchool
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APPLIED DEGREE PROGRAMSBachelor of
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Bachelor of Child and Youth Care(wi
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Year IIICYCW 302 Advanced CYC Pract
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Year IVTerm IMUSC 424 World Music 3
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For further informationBachelor of
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ACCT-100Introduction to Accounting
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ACCT-328Income Tax Fundamentals3 Cr
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ACUP-115Qi Gong and Tuina II2 Credi
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ACUP-311Acupuncture Safety Course (
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ANTH-206Introduction to Archaeology
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BIOL-310Freshwater Aquatic Ecology3
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BUSN-401New Venture Financing and C
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CHEM-333Organometallic Chemistry3 C
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CLAS-270Greek Civilization3 Credits
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