All undergraduate courses offered by the university are listed. Not all of the courses listed are offered within a single academic year. A listing of the courses offered during a given semester is available online before preregistration each semester.
Trial Courses
Academic departments may offer special trial courses on a one-time basis without adding them to their regular departmental offerings. A second trial offering, if additional data are necessary, must be within two calendar years of the first, unless the course is submitted for formal approval to the appropriate curriculum committees. Numbers designating these special courses are 292 and 492. Descriptive information on trial courses does not appear in the catalogue but is on file in the Office of the Registrar.
Sequenced Courses
A hyphen connecting courses (e.g., 201-202) indicates that the first course in the sequence must be satisfactorily completed prior to registration in the second course of the sequence. When course numbers are separated by a comma (e.g., 201, 202), the first course is not necessarily prerequisite to those following.
Online Courses
The university currently offers a variety of online courses, and two degree programs, the RN to B.S. option in nursing and Bachelor of Science in clinical research (CLR), are delivered totally online. Such courses are so designated in the Class Schedule and are open to both on- and off-campus students. Students interested in these programs should consult the online courses Web site http://www.uncw.edu/online.
Credits and Class Meetings
Unless specifically indicated at the end of the course description, the number of hours a class meets each week is the same as the credit hour value of the course. The semester hours credit for each course is indicated in parentheses immediately below the title of the course. For example, if three hours of credit may be earned, the credit is indicated as follows: (3). In variable credit courses, the minimum and maximum hours are shown as follows: (1-3).
Course Prefixes
The prefixes used to designate courses are abbreviations of the names of departments or fields of study within departments, as shown below:
Nursing
NSG 486 - Family Nursing
Introduces the core concepts of nursing essential to the role of the professional nurse when caring for families in all phases of the life cycle. The course content includes a broad range of family concepts from multidisciplinary research, theories, and frameworks, with emphasis on comprehensive family assessment and ethical dilemmas in practice.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
This course will focus on an introduction to emerging knowledge in human molecular genetics and the related implications for health care across the lifespan through multidisciplinary perspectives. Content focuses on the application of genetics to clinical practice, including screening for genetic predisposition, the impact of genetics on health promotion and disease prevention, and the uses of genetically engineered technology and therapies. Students will be encouraged to critically examine the social, legal, cultural, political, and professional implications of the integration of genetics into health care practices.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Open only to students in the RNBSN program. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A maximum of six hours may apply toward graduation.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Prerequisite Courses: (NSG 330 and NSGL 330) or (NSG 389 and NSGL 389) Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing, prerequisite courses, overall GPA of at least 2.00; consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Selected topics in nursing. A maximum of three hours will apply toward graduation. The lab for this course is NSGL 495.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Nursing student with junior or senior standing, and consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Eligibility for honors program at the Departmental major level. University Studies: Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
NSGL 345 - Health Maintenance Needs of Young Children Practicum
Prerequisite for nursing: PSY 220or PSY 223. Prerequisites for education: HEA 201, HEA 207. Corequisite for nursing: NSG 345. Corequisite for education: NSG 345. Provides students the opportunity to work in a variety of childcare settings with a specific focus on health maintenance of young children and their families. They will practice childcare skills and experience ways in which the dependency needs of children (birth through kindergarten) are managed by staff members in community settings while maintaining a healthy, safe environment. This course is designed for non-nursing majors.
Credit Hours: 1
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 1
Selected topics in clinical nursing. A maximum of three hours will apply toward graduation. This course is the lab for NSG 495.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing and major, and consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An introduction to the geology, physics, chemistry, and biology of the ocean; instruments and techniques of oceanography; resources of the ocean. The lab for this course is OCNL 150.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Scientific Approaches to the Natural World Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Variability of coastal landforms, the processes that shape them, problems brought about by natural and anthropogenic changes, and the role of culturally-based perceptions on valuation and management of coastal systems. Focus on coastal environments of populated continents and island nations including barrier islands, rocky coasts, dunes, estuaries, marshes and deltas.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Scientific Approaches to the Natural World, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society, Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Laboratory and computational research under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Freshman or sophomore standing, and consent of instructor and department chair. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An in-depth examination of the structure and formation of ocean basins, the role of oceans in the hydrological cycle, the physical properties of seawater, atmospheric and ocean circulation, waves, and tides. Emphasis on data analysis and quantitative problem solving.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 150 University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Applied study of ocean materials and processes in field settings. Introduction to methods and techniques used in geosciences, with emphasis on coastal and marine environments, including field measurement, sample retrieval, and data analysis. Colloquium and required field trips (with associated costs).
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 150 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Building Competencies/Information Literacy, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6 Repeat Limit: 2
Analysis of types of coastal wetlands and their evolution. Discussion of physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes controlling development and maintenance of these systems in response to natural and anthropogenic forcing factors.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 350 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of different methods used to map the seafloor including satellite altimetry, multibeam and sidescan sonar swathmapping. Operation of instruments, survey strategies and techniques to process and interpret data will be explored. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week. Shipboard field trip is required.
This class focuses on understanding the physical processes that dominate nearshore coastal environments including tidal fluctuations, wave propagation and dissipation, cross-shore and longshore currents, and surf zone sediment transport.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 150. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
Interdisciplinary study of human impact on coastal environments and organisms. Topics include the physical and biotic settings of worldwide coastal regions, principles of coastal management, current topics in coastal management, and analysis of potential solutions to coastal problems.
Credit Hours: 4
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 4
Examination of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System. U.S. IOOS is an organization of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems. This course explores the technology, data management practices, governance structures, and stakeholder engagement that enables IOOS to help decision makers address seven societal goals.
Credit Hours: 1 To 6
Prerequisite Courses: Prerequisite or corequisite: OCN 350. Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior Oceanography major status or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
Data collection and sampling techniques on a research vessel. Introduction to equipment methods and techniques used in oceanography including CTD casts, sidescan sonar operation and data analysis, and sediment coring via participation in two half-day cruises led by UNCW oceanography faculty members.
Credit Hours: 1
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 350 or OCN 390 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 1
A geochemical perspective on the chemistry of the world’s oceans with an emphasis on carbon cycling through the marine geosphere and biosphere. Topics include introductions to chemical oceanography, stable isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography, and investigations into the role of the oceans in the global carbon cycle through time.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:CHM 101 and CHM 102 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. Crosslisting: GLY 575 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of selected topics in oceanography that are not considered in detail in regular course offerings.
Credit Hours: 1 To 4
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Oceanography major, junior or senior standing and major and consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 7
Understanding relative sea level, sea-level fingerprints, and sea-level change to identify records of past coastal change, coastal dynamics, and coastal vulnerability at different timescales.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:OCN 150, OCN 250, or GLYL 101 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Integration of principles, theories, and methods of oceanography. Students select a topic, problem, or question and design a hands-on field and/or laboratory research project. Written and oral reports and group discussions of research findings; meets the applied learning requirement.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Senior standing, completion of other core requirements and at least 15 hours of electives toward the major. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Building Competencies/Information Literacy, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Involves investigation under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses. For further information consult the Directed Individual Study section of the catalogue. A maximum of 6 hours may be applied to the major.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing, overall GPA of 2.0, and consent of instructor, department chair, and dean. University Studies: Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
OCN 494 - International Field Experience in Oceanography
Students will gain a deep understanding of diverse oceanographic environments, field methods, and research investigations in international settings. This class may include lectures and readings, faculty-led field trips, and applied learning or research projects.
Credit Hours: 1-6
Prerequisite Courses: Consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Practical training experience with agency or business conducting geoscience and oceanographic services. Jointly evaluated by oceanography faculty member and on-site supervisor. May be repeated for maximum of 6 hours.
Credit Hours: 1 To 6
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or Senior standing with a minimun GPA 2.5 overall and consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Eligibility for honors program and recommendation of department chair. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
OCNL 150 - Introduction to Oceanography Laboratory
A hands-on, experiential introduction to the study of the oceans including geological, biological, chemical, and physical aspects. Instruments and techniques of oceanography, marine resources, and human interaction with the oceans will also be explored. Multiple required field trips. This course is the lab for OCN 150.
Credit Hours: 1
Prerequisite Courses: Prerequisite or corequisite: OCN 150. University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Scientific Approaches to the Natural World Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 1
An introduction to various philosophers and philosophical problems from historical, critical, and other perspectives.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Religion as a field of study; major modes of religious expression; chief issues in religious thought and experience; the search for method since the Enlightenment critique; contemporary developments.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Introduction to the principles of logic including the rules of deduction, the categorical syllogism, induction, and fallacies. Initiation in computer logic programs.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An introduction to fundamental principles, theories, and problems in ethics.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Selections from classic writings of both Western and Eastern religions, including Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Qur’an, and Buddhist and Hindu scriptures. Examination of their central ideas and values as well as their development and acceptance as sacred scriptures.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of Western philosophical thought in ancient and medieval times. Emphasis on the Greek origins of the philosophical tradition. Readings from the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Roman philosophy and such Christian thinkers as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of Western philosophical thought from the beginning of the modern era to the present. Emphasis on the rationalist and empiricist traditions. Readings from such philosophers as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant and Russell.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of American philosophical thought from colonial times to the present. Readings from such American thinkers as Jonathan Edwards, the Federalist authors, Thoreau, James, Dewey and Quine.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey and evaluation of past and present theories of human nature; to include such topics as nature and culture, freedom and rationality, issues in gender identity, and theories of education and human development.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An introduction to major themes in existential thought such as freedom, authenticity, death of God, the meaning of life. Primary source readings from existential authors, e.g., Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Marcel.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the principles and problems in the application of ethical theory to medical research and practice.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A study of classical first-order logic, i.e., propositional logic and predicate logic. Both the semantic method (truth-table method and model universe method) and the syntactic method (proof-theoretical method and the method of natural deduction) are featured. Additonal topics may be selected from meta-theory (completeness, soundness, etc.), the semantic tableaux approach, or the axiomatic approach.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 110 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Introduction to philosophical issues in race and social justice. Topics include race and identity, discrimination, multiculturalism, affirmative action, anti-racism.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation, Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Images, expectations, and experiences of women in the history of religions. Topics include the importance of gender to the study of religion, women’s real or perceived power (or lack of it) within the major classical traditions, and alternative women’s religious groups and ideas appearing since the 1970s.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation, Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of the three major Abrahamic faiths; the origins, beliefs and practices of these “people of the Book;” history of their interactions and influence on Western culture.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society, Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of primitive religion as revealed both in archaeological research and remaining primitive customs; examination of classical faiths of Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient Europe.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism; historical aspects, basic insights, contemporary relevance.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Religions of Africa, including traditional and non-traditional religious systems, and their impact on African societies and Africanism in the Americas.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Historical study of the Hebrew Scriptures and their cultural background; focus on the values, problems, and perceptions of the human condition reflected in these texts and archaeological data related to them.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Historical survey of the canonical Christian literature; illustration of contemporary methods of text-criticism, literary-criticism, form-criticism, and redaction-criticism; focus on results of modern scholarship in appreciating the Gospels and their function in the early Christian community.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
PAR 238 - History of Christianity I: Early and Medieval
Survey of the basic development of the Christian church from its foundation to the Protestant Reformation. Emphasis on major thinkers and pivotal events that determined the historical trends.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of religious thought and experience from colonial times to the present; representative Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders; Native American and Black American traditions; religious reform and revivalism.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examines the relationships between philosophical inquiry and motion pictures, including how philosophical ideas have influenced film as well as the use of film as a medium for expressing and analyzing philosophical issues. Readings include great works of philosophy from ancient, modern, and contemporary times.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Instruction in a variety of philosophical writing styles and strategies used to communicate philosophical concepts, including but not limited to: use of primary and secondary sources, style in scholarly essays; literary devices such as analogies and metaphors; argument and construction and refutation; methods of inquiry.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy, Building Competencies/Writing Intensive Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the relation of religion to social and psychological forces, including feminist and post-modern approaches to religion, and issues related to globalization. Topics include addressing the academic study of religion as an enterprise occurring in specific moments of modern intellectual history, and examining ongoing conceptual developments in the field.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 103 or PAR 125 University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Building Competencies/Information Literacy, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of the Dialogues of Plato. Analysis of texts; contemporary interpretations.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 or PAR 201 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An examination of Aristotle’s philosophy through selected texts, supplemented with contemporary criticisms. Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato; problems of interpretation.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 or PAR 201 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of the history of American Islam from colonial America to the present day United States by examining the Qur’an’s influence on religious freedom in the nation’s founding documents, the religious practices of Muslims enslaved in antebellum America, the relationships between the Nation of Islam and the Civil Rights Movement, and Muslim women’s choice to wear (and not wear) hijab.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
An introduction to the nature, concept and sources of law and the various schools of jurisprudence. Topics treated include: natural law; historical, analytical and sociological jurisprudence; idealism, utilitarianism and legal realism; equity, justice, precedent, custom and law, and the relation of law and morality.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing or consent of instructor. Crosslisting:PLS 310 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An exploration of philosophical issues and concepts central to an understanding of social and political life; e.g., function and cause, justice, liberty, equality, societal facts and laws, utopias, reason and political argument, political obligation and the public interest.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 or PAR 115 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An examination of ethical issues in the media, including print and broadcast journalism, advertising, public relations, and the entertainment media.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 or PAR 115 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Investigation and exploration into both traditional and contemporary theories regarding the philosophy of art and its associated problems. Visual arts, such as painting, sculpture, film, etc., will be examined.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Selected readings drawn from classical and/or contemporary sources bearing on problems of the self, such as the issue of personal identity and the concept of a person, the problem of the relation of mind and body and the question of the nature of consciousness.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Analysis and interpretation of a particular part of the Hebrew Scriptures. Topics will vary from one course offering to another. (The Torah; the Prophets; the Writings).
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Fundamental Issues in the nature and meaning of language: concepts of truth, meaning, reference, metaphor, interpretation, and speech acts.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Analysis and interpretation of a particular part of the New Testament. Topics will vary from one course offering to another. (The Gospels; the Acts of the Apostles; the Johannine works; the Letters of Paul).
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 21
Analysis of the major Jewish and Christian writings related to but excluded from the Bible, including histories, apocalypses, testaments, prayers, moral tales, and wisdom books.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 235 or PAR 236 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the basic problems found in Western philosophy concerning religion, including efforts to prove the existence of God, the role of faith and reason, the problem of evil, immortality, religious experience, religious language, and religious pluralism.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 and PAR 103 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of beliefs, assumptions, and arguments of atheism and other varieties of unbelief. Examines major atheistic explanations for the phenomenon of religion, and atheism and unbelief within Eastern and Western religions.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 or PAR 103 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the connections between religion and popular texts, films and practices in modern Western society.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 103 or PAR 125 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Fundamental issues in the philosophy of science; the nature of scientific method; modes of verification and the role of paradigms.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the role and significance of religion in early American culture and society. Topics include contact between Native American and Euro-American religious traditions, Puritanism, First Great Awakening, religion in the revolutionary era, separation of church and state.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 242 or HST 105 Crosslisting:HST 351 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The influences and meanings of religion in antebellum American society. Topics include Second Great Awakening, expansion of Protestant and Catholic churches, communitarian movements, religious responses to slavery.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 242 or HST 105 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Crosslisting:HST 345 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Religious thought and action concerning social change in modern America. Topics include urban revivalism, labor, civil rights, and peace movements. Emphasis on differing interpretations of scripture, church teachings, and religious identity.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 242 or HST 106 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Crosslisting:HST 359 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of religion in the Old and New South. Topics include Native American religious traditions, religious practices of blacks and whites, evangelicalism and fundamentalism, church involvement in political and social issues.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 103 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of philosophical issues found in the study of evolution: origins of the theory; impact on science; methodology of Darwinian and contemporary evolutionary studies; concepts of species, natural selection and adaptation and its mechanisms; application of evolutionary theory of human culture; and debates over creationism and sociobiology.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of Ancient Israel, its peoples and cultures through archaeological artifacts and analysis of ancient writings.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 103 or PAR 235 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A critical analysis of the role of religion in holocausts and genocides from antiquity to the present. Emphasis on the destruction of aboriginal and ethnic peoples, the Jewish holocaust, African genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Views of death and dying from a variety of religious traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. For each tradition, we will consider the following questions: How do they understand the nature of death? do they ascribe meaning and value to death? Do they ascribe meaning and value to the death? Do they recommend a particular religious practice at the moment of death? What funeral rituals are advocated within their tradition?
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of a specific philosophical topic (such as aesthetics, reality, love, freedom, responsibility, morality, social class, race and gender) through film. Analysis of the topic under investigation will include reading primary sources in philosophy, lecture and discussion, and film screenings. May be repeated under different subtitles for up to 12 credit hours.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 101 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
PAR 366 - Continental Philosophy: Early Jean-Paul Sartre
An examination of Sartre’s early existential philosophy with a focus on the classical philosophical problems of personal identity, freewill/determination, negative existential statements, and the problem of other minds.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of philosophical views of political power in Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Berlin, Nietzsche and Foucault. Addresses a series of interrelated questions: What is political power? What legitimates it? Who has it? How does is function? What strategies and tactics most effectively subvert and/or resist it?
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the Buddhism of Tibet as seen in ethical and social thought, ritual and meditation practice, philosophy, and art.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 232 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of the essentials of Buddhism as seen in ethical and social thought, mediation practices, philosophies, rituals and art.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the religions of India as seen in ethical and social thought, ritual and mediation practice, philosophy, and art. Includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the history, philosophies, practices, and institutions of Chinese religions through both primary texts and secondary scholarship. Focus mainly on the indigenous religions of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and ‘popular’ or ‘folk’ traditions. Course will make use of texts, films, online resources, and images.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of Japanese religions and their roles in Japanese culture and society. Course will make use of texts, literature, film, anime, manga, and other media.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of the religious life of black American communities with concentration on independent traditions, sects, and a sampling of major thinkers and issues.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Religious diversity within the Caribbean, including established, non-traditional, and Afrocentric religious traditions, and their interaction with popular culture.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
PAR 101 or PAR 115 recommended, not required. Introduction to the philosophy of drama. Includes studies of aesthetics, philosophical interpretations of classic plays, and philosophical thought in drama. Readings to include Aristophanes, Aristotle, Beckett, Critchley, Langer, Shakespeare, and Sophocles; films of plays.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
PAR 101 or PAR 115 recommended, not required. Introduction to the philosophy of sports, to include studies of particular sports, philosophical discussions of the nature of sport, and of the ethics and aesthetics of sport. Includes readings from Paul Weiss, Randolph Feezell, and other contemporary philosophers; selections from films on various sports.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An interdisciplinary investigation of various philosophical and religious questions. Themes for study: the problem of evil, the relations of faith and reason, symbolism and language, meaning of freedom, and concepts of determinism. Required of majors in junior or senior year; open to qualified non-majors.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Junior or senior standing. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive and Information Literacy, Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 18