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Feb 10, 2025
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PHI 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
Course Department: Humanities
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This introductory philosophy course examines basic worldview questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and socio-political thought. Epistemological questions consider knowledge, truth, and certainty. Metaphysical questions examine the existence of the divine, the nature of life, our relation to others, ideas of right, wrong, beauty, and the nature of freedom. Ethical questions consider what ought to be done and why. Socio-political thought addresses ideas of a just and ordered society and the responsibilities of its members. Students will analyze these questions about life while considering the work of important philosophers. This course prepares students for careers that require critical thinking and encourages students to consider the perspectives of others.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: Online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the basics of philosophy, including origins and divisions of philosophy, key terms and concepts, and the benefits of philosophical inquiry.
- Identify and address great philosophical questions related to epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and socio-political thought through examination of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Relate and distinguish essential aspects of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and socio-political thought, recognizing their interdependence and sequential relationship.
- Develop and evaluate one’s own philosophy and worldview through critical assessment of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Discover value in the perspectives of others through philosophical dialogue.
Course Objectives:
- Basics of Philosophy: Understand the basics of philosophy, including origins and divisions of philosophy, key terms and concepts, and the benefits of philosophical inquiry. Discover value in the perspectives of others through philosophical dialogue.
- Questions of What Exists and How We Can Know: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to epistemology and metaphysics, through examination of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Implications of Epistemology and Metaphysics: Connecting How We Can Know with Reality: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to epistemology and develop and evaluate one’s own philosophy and worldview through critical assessment of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Implications of Epistemology and Metaphysics: How Can We Know?: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to epistemology and develop and evaluate one’s own philosophy and worldview through critical assessment of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Implications of Epistemology and Metaphysics: What is Reality?: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to epistemology and develop and evaluate one’s own philosophy and worldview through critical assessment of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Philosophical Bases for Responsibility and Ethics: Why Be Good?: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to ethics through examination of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Philosophical Bases for Society and State: How Should We Work Together?: Identify and address great philosophical questions related to socio-political thought through an examination of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
- Developing a Personal Approach to Philosophy and Worldview: Develop and evaluate one’s own philosophy and worldview through critical assessment of key historical philosophers and their ideas.
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