2022-2023 Catalog [Archived] [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course investigates the big questions of philosophy, such as: What is the meaning of life? What can I know? Do I have free will? How do we know we are not living in a computer simulation? Emphasis is on how philosophers go about answering such questions, and how these questions are relevant to our lives.
Note: Students may take either Philosophy 101 or PHIL 101H . Duplicate credit will not be awarded.
(formerly Philosophy 2)
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PHIL 101H - Honors Introduction to Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU,UC
This honors course, intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program, investigates the big questions of philosophy, such as: What is the meaning of life? What can I be sure of? How do I know I’m not living in the Matrix? What is truly valuable and what is overvalued? What is the best life? Do I have free will? Emphasis is placed on how philosophers go about answering such questions and how these questions are relevant to our lives. This course is enriched through extensive, rigorous reading, writing, and research assignments.
Note: Students may take either PHIL 101 or Philosophy 101H. Duplicate credit will not be awarded.
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PHIL 103 - Ethics and Society
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: eligibility for ENGL 1A
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course offers a critical study of the major ethical theories and their application to contemporary moral issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, poverty, war, and euthanasia.
(formerly Philosophy 3)
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PHIL 105 - Critical Thinking and Discourse
3 units
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: ENGL 1A with a minimum grade of C
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course focuses on the study and development of critical reasoning and effective argumentation. Emphasis is placed on the application of critical thinking skills to the production of clear, well-argued position and advocacy papers and to the linguistic and logical analysis of the writings of others. Students’ papers and other writings will total a minimum of 6,000-8,000 words.
(formerly Philosophy 5)
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PHIL 105H - Honors Critical Thinking and Discourse
3 units
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: ENGL 1A or ENGL 1AH with a minimum grade of C
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This honors course, intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program, focuses on the study and development of critical reasoning and effective argumentation. Emphasis is placed on the application of critical thinking skills to the production of clear, well-argued position and advocacy papers and to the linguistic and logical analysis of the writings of others. Students’ papers and other writings will total a minimum of 6,000-8,000 words. This course is enriched through extensive rigorous reading, writing, and research assignments.
Note: Students may take either PHIL 105 or Philosophy 105H. Duplicate credit will not be awarded.
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PHIL 106 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course focuses on the representation of arguments for formal analysis, and the skills and techniques needed to do so effectively. The focus will be on the basic elements of classical and propositional logic with a brief introduction to predicate logic. Also discussed will be informal fallacies, inductive logic, and language.
(formerly Philosophy 8)
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PHIL 107 - Philosophy of Religion
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course is an introduction to traditional philosophical problems connected with religious belief. Prominent issues include whether God, souls, and an afterlife exist, the paradox of an all-good God and so much suffering in the world, the nature of religious language, the clash between religion and science, religious faith, the existence of miracles, religious experience, and mysticism.
(formerly Philosophy 7)
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PHIL 111 - History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course offers a chronological examination of Western philosophical thought developed between 600 B.C.E. and 1300 C.E., including the principle ancient and medieval philosophies of this time period. Topics include Greek and Roman thought, and the rise and development of Christianity.
(formerly Philosophy 10)
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PHIL 112 - History of Modern Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course addresses 16th through 18th century Western philosophy with an emphasis on broad epistemological and metaphysical developments in philosophical thought from Descartes to Kant, and may include some precursors and successors. Some of the concepts explored include empiricism, rationalism, idealism, the limits of knowledge, skepticism, the nature of reality, and arguments for and against the existence of God.
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PHIL 113 - Contemporary Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course addresses the main themes and ideas of 19th and 20th century philosophy. In addition to major contributions in the philosophy of language and ethics, some of the major philosophical movements covered include existentialism, phenomenology, analytic philosophy and logical positivism, pragmaticism, plus post-modernism and post-structuralism.
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PHIL 114 - Asian Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course examines the central concerns, historic contexts and foundational themes of the diverse philosophical traditions of South and East Asia, including Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Shintoism. Although some attention is given to Western ideas to which Asian thinkers have responded, the main emphasis is given to the different kinds of questions that have engaged Asian thinkers.
(formerly Philosophy 14)
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PHIL 115 - Existentialism
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
This course will examine the philosophical thought of the two strands of existentialist writers: the religious existentialists such as Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Heidegger, and the atheistic existentialists such as Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre. Issues that will be examined include authenticity, free will, responsibility for one’s character and actions, the essence, possibilities and limits of human beings, and the meaning of life.
(formerly Philosophy 12)
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PHIL 117 - Political Philosophy
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 1 or eligibility for ENGL 1A or qualification by appropriate assessment
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
In this course, students will examine political theory as presented in the primary works of major Western thinkers from Plato to Marx. Fundamental issues to be explored include human nature, justice, power, the role of the state, and the legitimate scope of government.
Note: Philosophy 117 is the same course as POLI 7 .
(formerly Philosophy 17)
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PHIL 120 - Ethics, Law and Society
3 units
3 hours lecture
Recommended Preparation: eligibility for ENGL 1A
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC
In this course, the relationship between the various facets of moral and legal thinking is analyzed. Philosophical issues such as justification for the legal enforcement of morality, the legitimacy of an international system of law, the relationship between new technologies and the role of law are examined. The concepts of individual and international rights and obligations will be discussed.
(formerly Philosophy 23)
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