2018-2019 University Catalog archived
Course Descriptions
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PHIL 244 - Feminist Social and Political Philosophy
(WGSS 244) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course critically examines the gender norms that pervade our identities, govern our everyday behavior, and organize our social life. Questions addressed may include: What is gender? In what ways does it affect the quality of women’s and men’s lives? Is gender difference natural? Is it valuable? Can it contribute to, or interfere with, human flourishing? Can a gendered society be just? What can any of us do to promote good relations among women and men? Bell.
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PHIL 245 - Poverty, Dignity, and Human Rights
(POV 245) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Is severe poverty a human rights violation? This course examines that question and others by means of an investigation of the main philosophical and religious debates about human rights. More broadly, the course provides students with the opportunity to examine our duties (individually and collectively) to those said to suffer from any human rights abuse. Questions considered include: Are human rights universal or culturally specific? What (if anything) grounds human rights? Are religious justifications of rights permissible in a pluralistic world? Is dignity a useful concept for defending and/or discerning human rights? Do we only have liberty rights (to be free of mistreatment) or do we also have welfare rights (to claim certain positive treatment from others)? What are the practical (moral, political. and legal) implications of identifying severe poverty as a human rights violation? Pickett.
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PHIL 246 - Philosophy of Sex
(WGSS 246) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course explores questions related to contemporary conceptions of sexuality and its proper role in our lives. Questions addressed include: What is the purpose of sex? Are sexual practices subject to normative evaluation on grounds of morality, aesthetics, and/or capacity to promote a flourishing human life? We consider the relation between sex and both intimacy and pleasure, viewed from the perspective of heterosexual women and men, and gay men and lesbians. What are our sexual practices and attitudes toward sex? What should they be like? Bell.
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PHIL 247 - Medicine, Research, and Poverty
(POV 247) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This seminar introduces students to central ethical issues in the provision of medical care and the conduct of medical research in the context of poverty. Specific topics include medical research on prisoners and the indigent; ancillary care obligations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); meeting the standard of care in LMICs; access to essential medicines; allocation of scarce medical resources; and compensated donation for organs or tissues. Taylor.
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PHIL 248 - Ethics of War
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
An investigation of important ethical issues concerning the justification, conduct, and consequences of war. The course concentrates, in particular, on traditional just war theory and on recent challenges that have been raised to the central tenets of this theory in light of the rise of terrorism and “asymmetric conflict” (i.e., conflicts waged between state and non-state parties), on the one hand, and reflection upon the moral responsibility of individuals who choose to support or participate in unjust wars, on the other. We address questions such as the following: Should we regard all combatants in war as having the same moral status, regardless of whether they are fighting for a “just cause”? Is it ever morally permissible to attack non-combatants? Is terrorism ever morally justified? Is torture ever morally justified? Is there a moral obligation to engage in humanitarian intervention to stop genocide? Can the conditions of war constitute an excusing condition for acts of moral atrocity? Smith.
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PHIL 249 - Poverty, Oppression, and Privilege
(POV 249) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This seminar asks one overarching question: Are the increasingly common - and contested - concepts of “oppression” and “privilege” useful in poverty studies and in the pursuit of justice? Along the way, we consider the following more specific questions: Is poverty a form of oppression? Is systemic disadvantage always oppressive or is it sometimes justifiable? What is the relationship between privilege and moral responsibility? Is privilege blameworthy? Do the privileged have distinct responsibilities to advocate for the just treatment of the disadvantaged? For that matter, do the oppressed have their own distinct responsibilities or would such a burden be an additional form of oppression? Is advocating for the disadvantaged privileged and (sometimes) oppressive? If so, is failing to advocate even worse? Who is responsible for the pursuit of justice and what, if anything, should be done? Pickett.
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PHIL 250 - Philosophies of Life
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: 3 credits in philosophy or instructor consent. This course provides opportunities to explore philosophies of life held by influential philosophers and by ordinary people, focusing on what it means to live a good or worthwhile life. It also gives students a chance to clarify and develop their own vision of what a good life is for them. Projects include conducting interviews with members of the community outside the classroom. Bell.
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PHIL 252 - Philosophy of Law
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of topics in the philosophy of law, such as the concepts of a law and of a legal system; Natural Law theory; legal positivist and legal realist theories of law; the nature of the relationship between law, morality, and religion; civil disobedience; rights in the U.S. Constitution; freedom of speech and pornography; abortion and the right to privacy; punishment and the death penalty; and different forms of legal liability. Readings include United States Supreme Court opinions. Bell.
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PHIL 254 - Philosophy of the Family: Beyond Tradition
(WGSS 254) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course considers philosophical issues raised by family as a social institution and as a legal institution. Topics addressed include the social and personal purposes served by the institution of family, the nature of relationships between family members, the various forms that family can take, the scope of family privacy or autonomy, and how family obligations, mutual support, and interdependency affect individual members of families. Bell.
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PHIL 256 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the problem of free will and moral responsibility. It is natural to wonder what place there is for freedom in a natural world of cause and effect. Our ordinary practices of holding people responsible (which includes not just blame, but also, e.g., credit, where credit is due) seem threatened equally by either determinism or indeterminism, fate or chance. In this class, we ask: What sort of concepts are freedom and responsibility, and what must a person be for those concepts to be applicable? The course begins with a brief historical overview of the problem of free will and moral responsibility, and then examines a number of contemporary philosophical perspectives on this problem, including the seminal work of P. F. Strawson, Harry Frankfurt, Gary Watson, John Martin Fischer, Susan Wolf, and T. M. Scanlon, among others. Smith.
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PHIL 264 - Aesthetics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course offers a wide-ranging, reflective overview of contemporary debates in the philosophy of art. We discuss the following kinds of questions: How are artistic experience and value interrelated? In what does beauty consist? What is the nature of aesthetic experience? Should we value works of art for what we can learn from them? How do pictures represent? What constitutes artistic expression? In what ways is the imagination involved in engaging with artworks? Can emotional responses to fiction be genuine and rational? Is artistic intention relevant to the interpretation of artworks? Are there general principles of aesthetic evaluation? What are the relations between the moral and aesthetic values of art? McGonigal.
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PHIL 270 - Intermediate Logic
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: PHIL 170 or instructor consent. An examination of alternative formal logics and issues in the philosophy of logic. Topics include formal ways of modeling possibility, actuality, and necessity; obligation and permissibility; pastness, presentness, and futurity; and others. They also include informal considerations of topics like conditionals, counterfactuals, intuitionism, and others. Goldberg, Gregory.
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PHIL 272 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Discussion of one or more major works in science fiction and in philosophy that explore related themes. Goldberg.
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PHIL 274 - Metaphysics: Existence and Reality
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of central issues in metaphysics. Topics include free will and determinism; cause and effect; space and time; being and existence; and possibility, actuality, and necessity. Goldberg.
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PHIL 278 - Epistemology: Knowledge and Doubt
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of the basic problems in epistemology with an emphasis on contemporary discussions. Topics include skepticism, knowledge, justification (foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism), relativism, and rationality. Cooper, Goldberg, Gregory.
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PHIL 282 - Philosophy of Biology
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of philosophical issues raised by biology, with an emphasis on current evolutionary theory. Topics include the structure of the theory of evolution by natural selection, an examination of the concepts of fitness and adaptation, the role of teleological explanation in biology, reductionism, the nature of biological species, individuality, levels of selection, and sociobiology. Cooper.
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PHIL 285 - The Unruly Body: Philosophy, Science, and Culture
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
“We are bodies.” This statement apparently affirms the obvious. But if this is so obvious why then do we so often disregard and disrespect our bodies and the bodies of others? In this interdisciplinary course, students study theories of embodiment through the study of the (i) history of philosophy, (ii) contemporary scientific and philosophical depictions of the body, and (iii) social-cultural structures affecting our bodies. Finally (iv), we consider how we can rethink, relive, regard, refigure, restore, and respect our body and the body of others in more productive and thought-provoking ways. Verhage.
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PHIL 296 - Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
A consideration of selected issues in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Spring 2019, PHIL 296-01: Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory: Film, Philosophy, and Nature (4). An examination of a range of issues in philosophy of film, and their relationships to the natural world. What is film? What does it mean to appreciate film landscapes as nature? In what ways do motion pictures stand in a distinctive relationship to the emotions? To ethics? What does it mean to claim that something is part of nature? For example, do claims about ethics, religion, possibility or consciousness describe elements of the natural world, or are they true in virtue of special non-natural properties? What implications do movies have for environmental aesthetics? How should we understand the art(s) of film? Can fiction films communicate important or distinctive forms of knowledge about environmental threats such as global warming? Can popular movies be sublime? What is the distinctive nature of documentary film? Why is it valuable? How do film narratives differ from other narrative forms? We discuss these and related questions in the context of film texts that originate from different national cultures and historical periods. (HU) McGonigal.
Fall 2018, PHIL 296-01: Virtue Ethics and Liberal Arts Education (3). The mission of Washington and Lee is to provide “a liberal arts education that helps students develop their capacities to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity, and civility”. These capacities are known as virtues, positive traits of intellect and character that are believed to be conducive to living well. Virtue ethics is one of the oldest and most important approaches to moral theory. Plato famously asked whether virtue can be taught. Aristotle’s Ethics attempts to answer Plato by giving an account of how the traits that are necessary to human flourishing can be acquired. In this course, students read classic and contemporary texts in virtue ethics, with the aim of evaluating W&L’s mission and the university’s efforts to fulfill it. What does it mean to think freely, critically, and humanely? What are the distinguishing characteristics of honor, integrity, and civility? Are these traits beneficial in every circumstance? Are there other virtues that the university should strive to cultivate in its students? How effectively do the culture, curriculum, and extra-curricular programs at Washington and Lee teach the virtues to which our mission commits us? Students are encouraged to reflect upon their own educational goals, choices, and experiences in light of the philosophical works that they read. (HU) Dudley.
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PHIL 297 - Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
A consideration of selected issues in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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PHIL 298 - Seminar in Continental Philosophy
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
A consideration of selected issues in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Winter 2019, PHIL 298A-01: Seminar in Continental Philosophy: Freud and Philosophy (3). Sigmund Freud is one of the great thinkers in the western tradition and perhaps the most influential thinker of the 20th century. While he is best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, his writings on art, religion, and history have had an enormous impact on film and literary criticism, social science, and theology. This course teases out and critically assesses the philosophical import of his theories of the unconscious, sexuality, dreams, and culture. The revisionist work of various neo-Freudians is also considered. (HU). Lambert.
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PHIL 310 - Kant
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
A close reading of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant’s most important work in metaphysics and epistemology and one of the most influential philosophical works ever written. Goldberg.
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PHIL 315 - Hegel
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. The truth is the whole. Hegel’s philosophy was inspired by an effort to reconcile various dichotomies of modern thought: nature and freedom, mind and body, immanence and transcendence, sensibility and understanding, reason and faith, romanticism and enlightenment, what is and what ought to be. This course examines the method and starting point of Hegel’s project, with a close reading of his Phenomenology of Spirit. In the process, we explore and assess his attempt to comprehend all of the perennial philosophical problems with a revolutionary, systematic approach. Because Hegel is also the first philosopher to take the history of philosophy seriously and make history a fundamental category of philosophy, we gain a better understanding of both his predecessors and those whom he influenced (including existentialists, Marxists, and postmodernists) in our own time. Lambert.
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PHIL 340 - History of Ethics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
A close examination of the writings of some of the philosophers and writers who have shaped ethical thought, including Sophocles, Cicero, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, and Nietzsche. Topics include ambition, pride, revenge, friendship, family, deception, inequality, justice, law, God, sympathy, duty, reason, and evil. Staff.
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PHIL 342 - Metaethics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course focuses on contemporary issues in metaethics. For example, we address questions such as the following: Do moral judgments express truths that are independent of our feelings and conventions? Are “goodness” and “wrongness” real properties of things, or do we simply use these terms to express our subjective preferences toward states of affairs? Can we reason about morality? Do moral considerations provide practical reasons for all rational agents, or does the normative force of these considerations depend upon an agent’s subjective desires? We also consider some meta-theoretical questions about the aims, methods, and authority of moral theory. Smith.
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PHIL 344 - Virtue Ethics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course examines the recent resurgence of interest in virtue-based theories in ethics. These theories, which trace back to the Ancient Greek philosophers (particularly Aristotle), emphasize the importance of the virtues and good character to living a flourishing human life. Such views are increasingly being defended as an alternative to traditional rule-based (deontological) and consequence-based (consequentialist) theories in ethics. We begin by looking at some of the seminal articles that sparked this renewed interest in virtue ethics, and then examine a fully developed neo-Aristotelian virtue ethical account (and some criticisms that have been raised to this account). Smith.
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PHIL 346 - Medical Ethics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of the issues arising out of the human impact of modern biomedical research and practice. Specific issues are selected from among the following: abortion, contraception, death and dying, experimentation/research, genetics, in vitro fertilization, intellectual and developmental disabilities, public health/community medicine, science/technology, transplantation and patients’ rights. Taylor.
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PHIL 347 - Ethics of Globalization
(BUS 347)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: At least junior standing. This seminar examines a number of ethical issues raised by the phenomenon of globalization. Though globalization is not new, recent business, technological, and policy developments have made the world more integrated and interdependent than ever before. Increasing economic, cultural, and political interconnections have created a host of new questions about how to conceive of the moral rights and responsibilities of individuals, multi-national corporations, nation-states, and global institutions within this new global framework. This course identifies and clarifies some of these questions, and considers how they have been addressed from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives. Questions concerning the ethics of globalization are approached through an analysis of a few specific topics, such as immigration, humanitarian intervention, and global poverty and inequality. Because the issues raised by the phenomenon of globalization cross disciplinary boundaries, readings are drawn from a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, business, economics, political science, and anthropology. Reiter and Smith.
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PHIL 348 - Legal Ethics
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
An examination of the issues associated with lawyers’ roles in society and their impact upon and obligations to the client, the court, and the legal profession. The course also addresses questions of the role and function of law and the adversary system. Cooper.
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PHIL 354 - Distributive Justice
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. How should the product of social cooperation be distributed in a just society? Is wealth redistribution through taxes fair? Is it a fair distribution of wealth that a just society depends on, or is distributive justice more complicated than that? Should we have welfare programs, and, if so, what should they be like? Our studies may include John Rawls’ political liberalism, Robert Nozick’s libertarianism, Ronald Dworkin’s equality of resources, Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach, Stuart White’s justice as fair reciprocity, and criticisms of the distributive paradigm. Bell.
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PHIL 357 - Self and Social World
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course takes as its starting point the question of the ‘other.’ We explore such questions as: how do we perceive, and communicate with others who have different bodies, genders, cultures and histories? How do we see ourselves through the eyes of others? Can we speak for others? Can we build bridges across differences and forge common ground? We begin with traditional philosophical accounts of selves and others, i.e., Hegel’s dialectic of master and slave, Husserl’s alter ego, Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, Sartre’s account of shame, Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodied intersubjectivity, and Levinas’ ethics of alterity. Later, we concentrate on the work of feminist philosophers, race theorists, and post-colonialist thinkers who critique these traditional philosophies and offer alternative ways of speaking about self and other. Verhage.
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PHIL 365 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Ethics
(ENV 365)
Credits: 3
This course examines selected topics in environmental ethics. Topics may vary from year to year, and include the proper meanings and goals of environmentalism; the goals and methods of conservation biology; major environmental issues in current political debates; and balancing the ethical concerns of environmental justice and our responsibilities to future generations. Cooper.
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PHIL 372 - Philosophy of Language
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
A survey of central topics in the field, including some or all of the following: reference, meaning, truth, analyticity, speech acts, pragmatics, verificationism, indeterminacy, innateness, metaphor, and development of language in the species and in the individual. Goldberg, Gregory.
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PHIL 375 - Philosophy of Mind
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
A consideration and assessment of dualism and materialism and of various theories of the relation between the mental and the physical, such as the identity theory, functionalism, and supervenience. Gregory.
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PHIL 378 - Philosophy of Science
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Discussion of philosophical issues raised by the natural sciences. Topics include the nature of scientific theories, evidence, and explanation, the demarcation of science from non-science, scientific revolutions, the unity of science, and scientific realism. Cooper, Gregory.
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PHIL 381 - Perception and Human Experience: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This course is centered on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s landmark work, The Phenomenology of Perception. Bringing together phenomenological philosophy and (neuro)psychology. Merleau-Ponty discusses a wide range of subjects: the bodily nature of consciousness, the expressivity of the body, our relations to others, the experience of time, space, freedom. etc. The course situates this discussion within a contemporary dialogue between phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. Perception is the primary relation that we have to the world; it reveals to us a world of meaningful objects; it reveals a world to which we belong as embodied subjects. A careful philosophical study of perception not only makes us understand the world better but also gives us more insight into our own embodied existence: “By thus remaking contact with the body and with the world, we shall also rediscover ourself.” (PhP. 206). Verhage.
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PHIL 382 - Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. What does it mean to be human? Must we stay that way? We address these questions by looking critically at the technological enhancement of human capabilities. We have the means - robotic, pharmaceutical, computational, neurological, and genetic - to alter and enhance our biological endowments. We can increase our lifespan, improve our physical, cognitive, and emotional abilities like never before. What is currently possible? What will be possible in the short, medium, and long term? Could we change ourselves to such an extent that we are no longer human - becoming transhuman or posthuman? What if our technological descendants far surpass us and enslave us? What are the dangers and moral/ethical considerations, and how are we to adjudicate them? We read authors ranging from essentialist bioconservatives to radical transhumanists. Gregory.
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PHIL 395 - Seminar in History of Philosophy or Major Figures
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
Prerequisites: Usually one course in philosophy other than PHIL 170. Varies by topic. An intensive and critical study of selected issues or major figures in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Fall 2018, PHIL 395A-01: Environmental Values and Environmental Policy (3). What values shape environmental decisions? In economic terms, we seek to allocate resources so as to maximize social utility. However, our policy decisions regarding the environment also pursue certain ecological goals, such as the preservation of biodiversity and the maintenance of healthy and functioning ecosystems. In addition, environmental policy is constrained by ethical concerns such as the pursuit of environmental justice and our responsibilities to future generations. This course addresses such questions as: To what degree are these three kinds of policy goals in tension with one another? How can we clarify our thinking about these policy goals so as to harmonize them where possible and reasonably negotiate the tradeoffs when they come into conflict? (HU) Cooper.
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PHIL 396 - Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
Prerequisites: Usually one course in philosophy other than PHIL 170. Varies by topic. An intensive and critical study of selected issues or major figures in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Fall 2018, PHIL 396-01: Great Moral Debates: Consequentialism and Its Critics (3). Prerequisite: One course in philosophy other than PHIL 170. If we could wish for anything in the world, would it be enough to wish for everybody to be merely happy, instead of really happy? Is it morally better for me to take the high-paying-but-kinda-morally-icky corporate job rather than join the Peace Corps, just so I will have more money to donate to charity? We explore these questions and others as we examine in-depth various forms of modern consequentialist moral theory and the criticisms raised against them. Topics include a mix of normative ethics and applied ethics, meaning we debate the merits of different types of utilitarianism and other forms of consequentialism in both theory and practice. (HU) Valentine.
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PHIL 397 - Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
Prerequisites: Usually one course in philosophy other than PHIL 170. Varies by topic. An intensive and critical study of selected issues or major figures in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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PHIL 398 - Seminar in Continental Philosophy
FDR: HU
Credits: 3 credits in fall-winter-spring, 4 in spring
Prerequisites: Usually one course in philosophy other than PHIL 170. Varies by topic. An intensive and critical study of selected issues or major figures in philosophy. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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PHIL 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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PHIL 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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PHIL 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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PHIL 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Senior standing and major in philosophy. Senior thesis. Staff.
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PE XXX - PE Graduation Requirement Complete
Credits: 1
Administrative designation of the completion of the Physical Education requirement for graduation. Credit is awarded by the University Registrar with a composite grade upon completion of all required 100- or 200-level PE skills courses.
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PE 101 - Fundamental Swimming
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Students who are classified “non-swimmers” based on the proficiency test must register for this course. May be taken once. Staff.
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PE 102 - Therapeutic Exercise
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisite: Consent of the head trainer and University physician. A specialized course employing physical rehabilitation techniques. Students with an acute physical impairment are assigned through consultation with the University physician in lieu of other physical education courses. May be repeated once for degree credit. Staff.
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PE 111 - Aerobic Swimming
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisite: Students must have passed the swimming proficiency test or completed PE 101. A course designed to improve stroke technique and endurance. Not to be taken after completing PE 205 or 213. May be taken once. Staff.
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PE 120 - Self-Defense
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisite: Women only. Limited enrollment. A presentation of an aggression-defense system. This is a six-week course during Fall and Winter terms. May be taken once. Security staff.
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PE 126 - Yoga
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
The practice of yoga enhances balance, improves flexibility and builds core strength. This class offers a full mind-body workout that improves health, athletic performance, and mental acuity in people of all fitness levels. Orrison.
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PE 148 - Team Handball
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Team Handball Staff.
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PE 151 - Golf
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in fall, 2nd six-weeks in winter, and spring. Golf. Not to be taken after completing PE 209. Course fee: $100 and must provide own transportation. (If you need financial assistance to take this course, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financialaid@wlu.edu.) Staff.
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PE 153 - Boot Camp
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
This course allows students to cross train in a variety of activities, including: circuit training, agility training, strength training, core training, running, yoga, obstacle courses, and nutrition. Staff.
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PE 154 - Aerobic Running
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Aerobic running. Not to be taken after completing PE 200 or 212. Staff.
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PE 155 - Weight Training
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Weight Training Staff.
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PE 156 - Soccer
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Soccer. Not to be taken after completing PE 202. Staff.
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PE 157 - Team Sports
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
This course involves basketball, volleyball, and soccer which will take up three quarters of the course. The fourth component will be any combination of team games/sports from the following: Team Handball, Softball, Ultimate Frisbee, kickball, and other games. Students will learn the fundamentals of each sport, including how to play and officiate. Staff.
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PE 158 - Tennis
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in fall and spring. Beginning and intermediate tennis. Students may take this course only once regardless of level. Not to be taken after completing PE 211. Staff.
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PE 159 - Badminton
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Badminton Staff.
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PE 160 - Volleyball
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Volleyball. Not to be taken after completing PE 214. Staff.
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PE 162 - Racquetball
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Racquetball Staff.
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PE 165 - Basketball
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Basketball. Not to be taken after completing PE 203. Staff.
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PE 166 - Squash
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Squash Staff.
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PE 169 - Aerobics
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
An overview of alternative styles of aerobic exercise. Staff.
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PE 170 - Horsemanship
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in fall. An introduction to basic horsemanship skills fundamentals of hunter seat equitation. Not to be taken after completing PE 215. Additional special fees apply. Limited enrollment. Reistrup.
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PE 174 - Backpacking
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Backpacking Staff: Outing Club.
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PE 176 - Mountain Biking
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Mountain Biking. (Additional fee required. If you need financial assistance to take this course, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financialaid@wlu.edu.) Staff.
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PE 177 - Body Conditioning
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Course work combines the study of modern and ethnic dance techniques, jazz, ballet, and improvisation with the somatic principles of Alexander Technique, Developmental Technique, and Bartenieff Fundamentals to provide a comprehensive training regimen for the development of physical endurance, strength, flexibility, and coordination. Classes include a 30?minute aerobic dance sequence of original choreography followed by an additional 30 minutes of Pilates-based mat exercises, yoga, and other innovative training methods. Participants receive training in applied imagery skills for dynamic alignment, active-isolated stretching, stress relieving, relaxation techniques, and experiential anatomy. Staff.
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PE 179 - Interpretive Movement and Fitness
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Interpretive movement and fitness. Staff.
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PE 180 - Wilderness Leadership
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisites: PE 174 or equivalent experience. Wilderness Leadership Staff: Outing Club.
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PE 181 - Outdoor Activity:Paddling Fundamentals
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Students gain knowledge combined with hard and soft skill practice necessary for safely participating in water environments from calm water up to Class III rapids. Technical skill topics include: overview of safety equipment (helmets, PFDs, paddles, throw bags, floatation and whistle), reading moving water, hazard identification, wet/dry exit and recovery techniques, whitewater self-defense skills and basic haul systems. Group leadership topics include basics of group dynamics, communication styles, loading/unloading and transportation of equipment, required components of a pre-trip safety speech (“paddle talk”) and basic environmental hazards (lightning, entrapment, flora/fauna). Dick.
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PE 183 - Fly Fishing
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
This course is intended to introduce students to the recreation, sport, and art of fly fishing. Students develop knowledge and skills of fly fishing from a variety of approaches. As recreation, students learn to cast a fly-rod into cold-water streams of the Appalachian Mountains. As sport, students gain skills to catch cold-water fish species (rainbow, brown, and brook trout) and warm-water species (smallmouth bass, rock bass, sunfish). Students are introduced to the ancient art of tying dry flies, nymphs, and streamers of natural and artificial materials. This course also introduces students to stream conservation and restoration and current threats to native fish populations. Guest lecturers may provide advanced fly-tying and casting technique instructions throughout the term. Dick.
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PE 184 - Rock Climbing
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
1st six-weeks in fall, 2nd six-weeks in winter. Students gain knowledge and skills necessary for creating multi-directional anchors, intermediate belaying techniques at various points in a multi-pitch climb, lead climbing techniques and self-rescue techniques including a belay escape with patient raise or lower. All techniques are instructed with scenarios allowing students to demonstrate appropriate lessons taught. This class is focused more on anchor placement/evaluation and belay safety than actual climbing technique and practice. Dick.
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PE 185 - Scuba
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Prerequisite: Pass a swimming test. An introduction to the underwater world of SCUBA Diving, including classroom, pool-session, and open-water components. Students learn about dive equipment, the science of diving, responsible diving practices, and the environment. Practice time enhances students’ safety and comfort and training is completed with a minimum of five open-water dives. Successful completion results in lifetime open-water diver certification from NAUI, www.naui.com. Diving instruction is provided by Nags Head Diving of Manteo, North Carolina. (Additional fee required. If you need financial assistance to take this course, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financialaid@wlu.edu.) Dick.
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PE 195 - Outdoor Activity
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Additional fees for fly-fishing. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Offered 1st six-weeks in fall, 2nd six-weeks in winter, and spring. Activities may include caving, climbing, orienteering, and ropes course facilitation. May be repeated for a maximum three activities if the activities are different. Staff: Outing Club.
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PE 200 - Intercollegiate Cross Country
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 154 prior to PE 200 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Cross Country Spalding. (Men) Dager. (Women)
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PE 201 - Intercollegiate Football
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Football LeRose, G.
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PE 202 - Intercollegiate Soccer
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 156 prior to PE 202 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Soccer Singleton. (Men) Cunningham. (Women)
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PE 203 - Intercollegiate Basketball
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 165 prior to PE 203 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Basketball Hutchinson. (Men) McHugh. (Women)
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PE 204 - Intercollegiate Field Hockey
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Field Hockey Wills.
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PE 205 - Intercollegiate Swimming
FDR: FP: Students may take either PE 101 or PE 111 prior to PE 205 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Swimming Gardner. (Women), Gardner. (Men)
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PE 207 - Intercollegiate Wrestling
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Offered 1st six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Wrestling Shearer.
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PE 208 - Intercollegiate Baseball
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 171 prior to PE 208 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Offered 2nd six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Baseball White.
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PE 209 - Intercollegiate Golf
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 151 prior to PE 209 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Golf Gyscek.
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PE 210 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse
FDR: FP
Credits: 0-1
Offered 2nd six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Diamond O’Brien. (Women), McCabe. (Men)
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PE 211 - Intercollegiate Tennis
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 158 prior to PE 211 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Offered 2nd six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Tennis Detwiler. (Men), Ness. (Women)
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PE 212 - Intercollegiate Track and Field
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 154 prior to PE 212 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Track and Field Uhl. (Men), Freeman D. (Women)
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PE 214 - Intercollegiate Volleyball
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 160 prior to PE 214 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Intercollegiate Volleyball Snyder.
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PE 215 - Intercollegiate Riding
FDR: FP: Students may take PE 215 for a maximum of two terms toward the PE skills requirement.
Credits: 0-1
Offered 2nd six-weeks in winter. Intercollegiate Riding Reistrup.
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PE 301 - Philosophy and Techniques of Coaching
Credits: 2
A comprehensive study of principles, philosophy, and techniques of coaching. The class includes practical teaching. Cunningham.
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PE 302 - Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries
Credits: 1
Fundamentals of human anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology of exercise are studied. Prevention, care, and rehabilitation of injury techniques are analyzed. Discussion and instruction employing the modalities of hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, thermotherapy, and cryotherapy are presented. Therapeutic exercise procedures are demonstrated and related to the overall program of athletic training. Staff.
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PE 304 - First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Credits: 1
Additional special fees. A course designed to provide fundamental principles, knowledge, and skills in First Aid and CPR, leading to American Red Cross certification in Standard First Aid and Community CPR. (First class meeting mandatory.) (Additional fee required. If you need financial assistance to take this course, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financialaid@wlu.edu.) Staff.
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PE 306 - Sports Psychology
Credits: 4
An examination of both theory and application of sport psychology. Students gain an understanding of the psychological principles and theories that apply to sport and learn how to use this knowledge in an applied setting when working with teams or athletes. Major areas of focus include personality theory, attribution theory, group cohesion, imagery, goal orientation and motivation, goal setting, and imagery. Singleton.
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PE 312 - Lifeguard Training
Credits: 2
Additional special fees. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Must be able to swim 500 yards, freestyle and breaststroke. A course designed to provide the fundamental principles and skills of lifeguarding, leading to American Red Cross certification. Gardner.
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PE 325 - Women’s Health: Food, Fitness, and Fertility
Credits: 4
This course focuses on women’s health and alternative ways health can be achieved. Students gain the knowledge and tools necessary to prepare them for a lifetime of health and wellness, including examinations of political, social, and medical pressures which may influence a woman’s ability to “be well.” Students examine a wellness wheel and establish fitness, emotional, spiritual and social goals that they develop and implement through the course of the term. Literature and research are examined to explore the typical American diet. Food pyramids, nutrition labels, supplements and cooking classes are provided and examined in an effort to make healthy food choices. Students fully explore topics of women’s fertility and sexual health, including but not limited to infertility, home birth, birth control, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual and nonsexual relationships. Guest lecturers, yoga, and field trips to local farms and vendors enhance our reading and discussions. Orrison.
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PHYS 102 - Physics and Perception of Music
(MUS 102) FDR: SL
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Appropriate for non-science and non-major students with a basic (high-school) knowledge of physics and mathematics. Explores physical principles of sound production and music perception. Hands-on investigation is emphasized. Topics include: wave properties and propagation, harmonic series and spectral analysis, tuning temperaments, response of the human ear, auditory processing, room acoustics, audio recording and reproduction technologies, characterization of various instrument families (strings, brass, woodwind, percussion, and voice). Laboratory course with fee. Erickson.
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PHYS 111 - General Physics I
FDR: SL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 101 or equivalent. Corequisite: PHYS 113. An introduction to classical mechanics. Topics include kinematics, Newton’s laws, solids, fluids, and wave motion. This course must be taken simultaneously with Physics 113. Staff.
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PHYS 112 - General Physics II
FDR: SL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: PHYS 111. Corequisite: PHYS 114. A continuation of PHYS 111. Topics include thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, and optics. This course must be taken simultaneously with PHYS 114. Staff.
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