Courses

This course aims to provide all students with a basic understanding of tools and methods to assist in making personal financial decisions responsibly. Topics covered include: career planning (including college major and occupation choice), budgeting, overview of financial institutions/services, borrowing/lending (including home and auto purchases), tax considerations, insurance, investing (e.g. stocks/ bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, real estate investment), and savings and retirement planning.

Theories of industrial relations; the philosophy and political perspectives of labor unions; and the current discussion concerning the state and future of the labor movement. Issues examined will include the changing nature of work and the consequent implications for industrial relations and the trade unions.

Examination of the theories of industrial relations systems; the philosophy and political perspectives of labor unions; and the current discussion concerning the state and future of the labor movement. Issues examined will include the meaning of work, its changing nature, and the consequent implications forindustrial relations and the trade unions.

The description, analysis, and identification of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; rockforming processes are studied in the laboratory using suites of rocks, and in the field. Topics include handspecimen and microscopic petrography and igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic petrology.

A study of the background, central problems, and representative figures of phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism. Selected readings from Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Derrida.

PHIL OF MAN

An examination of feminist perspectives on topics such as: knowledge, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy, and the nature and history of philosophy. Attention to the nature of gender and to the question of its role in the framing of philosophical issues, methods, and paradigms of investigation.

Exploration of the connection between philosophical and mystical traditions in both the Eastern and the Western canon.

Analysis of philosophical problems raised by radical change in society and the sciences. Issues concerning such topics as personal identity, the nature of the human, and moral agency are examined with reference to recent developments in culture and technology.

An investigation of radical evil as exhibited in the Holocaust and of the philosophical issues encountered in attempts to understand or explain it. Relevance of the Holocaust to views of human nature, moral choice, and resistance.