Skyline College Catalog 2011-2012 Program & course descriptions ...

PHIL 160 HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY:ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 836.The history of ancient philosophy, the early GreekPhilosopher through the Medieval Period. Special empha -sis on the Pre- Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, andAquinas. Topics include philosophy and religion, myth,science, and society. Transfer: UC; CSU (C2).PHIL 175 HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY:16TH-18TH CENTURY (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100.The history of Western Philosophy from Descartesthrough Kant, set in the context of the scientific revolution,the Protestant Reformation, and the emergence ofmodern political institutions. Specifics include Erasmus,Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley,Hume and Rousseau. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (C2).PHIL 195 HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY:19TH AND 20TH CENTURY (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or 105, or equivalent.A survey of 19th and 20th century philosophy in its historicaland cultural context. Examination of intellectualmovements such as liberalism, positivism, Marxism, Dar -winism, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and post-moder -nism. Critical reading of influential thinkers such as Hegel,Marx, J.S. Mill, Kierkegaard, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud,Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, J.P. Sartre, J.J. Ayer,Quine, and Daniel Dennett. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (C2).PHIL 200 INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC (3)Minimum of 48 lecture hours plus 16 lab hours by arrangement/semester.Recommended: Eligibility for ENGL 100 orENGL 105, or equivalent; and eligibility for MATH 120 orequivalent.An introduction to symbolic logic with an emphasis onproof systems for propositional and predicate logic.Includes translation of English sentences into a symboliclanguage, patterns and techniques of deductive andinductive inference, and basic probability theory. Transfercredit: UC; CSU (A3).PHIL 240 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS (3)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or 105.A critical examination of philosophical views aboutethics including accounts of human nature and humanpotential; theories of value, rightness and justice; ideals ofcharacter, personal aims, action, ways of living, and othertopics. Contemporary moral issues will be explored indepth. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (C2).PHILOSOPHYPHIL 280 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICALPHILOSOPHY (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or 105, or equivalent.An introduction to political philosophy. Readings andcritical discussion of political philosophies (such as liberalism,conservatism, communitarianism, libertarianism,socialism, feminism, etc.) through readings by influentialthinkers (such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill,Marx, Rawls, and contemporary writers). Topics includetheories of human nature, conceptions of justice, therelationship between the individual and the state, thedistribution of wealth and power, the significance ofideology, and the role of markets. Also listed as PLSC280. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (C2, D3).PHIL 300 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS (3)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or 105.An exploration of the religions of the world, their origin,history, beliefs, practices, art, and rituals. Includes varietiesof Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam,and other selected traditions. Transfer credit: UC; CSU(C2).PHIL 312 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OFRELIGION (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or 105, or equivalent.An introduction to philosophical thinking about religion,with an emphasis on issues central to traditionalmonotheism. This course teaches how to critically examinearguments concerning the origin of religion, the existenceof God, the historicity of miracles, the veridicality ofreligious and mystical experience, the existence of spiritsor souls, the possibility of life after death, the equal validityof all religions, and other topics. Transfer credit: UC;CSU (C2).PHIL 320 ASIAN PHILOSOPHY (3)(Pass/No Pass or letter grade.)Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester. Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100.A general survey of the philosophical developments inIndia, China and Japan. Major philosophical theories ofthese countries will be compared and evaluated. Thephilosophical impact on Asian existence, human destiny,ethical and metaphysical views will be examined. Courseincludes an introduction to the challenges of comparativestudy. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (C2).C O U R S E D E S C R I P T I O N S2 011 – 2 012 C ATA L O G w w w. S k y l i n e C o l l e g e . e d u219