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Philosophy and Religion

Song of Life

Adam Gorelick

Tues.,Thurs., 9:30AM - 10:45AM

This is a course about poetic forms, but mostly it’s about writing poetry. Students will read, research, and attempt several poetic forms including epic, sonnet, free verse, haiku, elegy, limerick, sestina, and others. The key feature of the course will involve workshopping together original poetry and providing constructive feedback.

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The Conservative Tradition

Ruben Garrote

Tues., Thurs., 12:30P-1:45P

This course will involve readings in Conservative political philosophy, but politics is not all that Conservatism encompasses.

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The Problem of Knowledge

Daniel Alvarez

Mon., Wed., Fri., 1:00P-1:50P

In this course, we seek to answer two fundamental questions: What is knowledge, and do we have it? We go through life learning from our parents, from books, and teachers “facts” or statements that are supposed to be true, that most of the time it does not occur to us to question or doubt.

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The Question of God

Edmund Newborn

Mon., Wed., 6:00P-7:15P

The past several decades have seen a statistical decline in the number of people who claim to believe in God or who choose to participate in a religion. This course will explore the underlying philosophical causes for this shift as well as looking at how people of faith can possibly answer the challenges of modern atheism.

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Power Skills: Emotional Intelligence for the 21st Century

Amber Webber

Online

Your mission in this course will be to navigate a series of quests, challenges, and discussions to explore the world of emotional intelligence. As with other video games, the quests in this gamified course will help you build skills, gain experience, learn background context, and collect new EQ insights to enrich your own personal storyline.

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Humans in the Age of Bots

Francis Hill

Wednesdays 2-3:15PM (Hybrid)

Humans in the Age of Bots is a digital humanities course intersecting literature, philosophy, and technology to explore questions of the human experience in context within the increasing ubiquity of Generative AI. Using Frankenstein and Co-Intelligence as anchor texts, students will explore the themes of ¿what does it mean to be human¿ and ¿what does human progress look like¿ as well as collaborate with AI to code an interactive system from scratch that explores and provides commentary on these questions.

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Thou Shalt Not Steal: Wage Theft & Moral Philosophy

Jeanette Smith

Thurs. 1:00P - 2:15P (Hybrid)

For many low-wage or part-time workers, wage theft is an inevitable aspect of their working lives. Wage theft includes not being paid for overtime, being paid less than the minimum wage, or not being paid at all.

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