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  • PHIL 201: Introduction to Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    A study of central philosophical questions and theories about human existence, our experience of and place in the world; God, free will, scientific humanism, existentialism; ancient Greek, Judeo-Christian, Modern and 20th century thought; emphasis on development of rational skills and reflective thinking. Also available through Online Learning. Approved for the Honors Program. Core: AH. Prerequisite:    English Department Determination of Reading and Writing Competency for ENGL 101
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  • PHIL 202: Ethics and Moral Problems

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    A critical study of major ethical theories and concepts and their application to selected moral issues, to aid in shaping one's own ethical stance and in making sound ethical choices; Hedonism, Egoism, Altruism, Authenticity, Existentialism, Absolutism, Relativism, Utilitarianism, Human Rights and Duty, Justice, Multiculturalism and Feminism. Course numbers ending in a G are Writing Intensive (WI). Also available through Online Learning. Approved for the Honors Program. Core: AH
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  • PHIL 202G: Ethics and Moral Problems

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    A critical study of major ethical theories and concepts and their application to selected moral issues, to aid in shaping one's own ethical stance and in making sound ethical choices; Hedonism, Egoism, Altruism, Authenticity, Existentialism, Absolutism, Relativism, Utilitarianism, Human Rights and Duty, Justice, Multiculturalism and Feminism. Writing intensive. Also available through Online Learning. Approved for the Honors Program. Core: AH, WI. Prerequisite:    ENGL 101
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  • PHIL 204: Asian Philosophies

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    A survey of major Asian traditions, texts, and thinkers, especially in Indian and Chinese philosophy. Course themes will include Asian philosophical perspectives on the nature of the mind, body, self, soul, identity, knowledge, reality, compassion, duty, karma, and nirvana. This course will involve the disciplined practices of concentration and meditation. Approved for the Honors Program. Core: AH, D. Prerequisite:    PHIL 121 or PHIL 201
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  • PHIL 211: Ancient Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    This course is a survey of major Ancient Western Philosophical traditions, texts, and thinkers, emphasizing Plato and Aristotle, but also including the pre-Socratic and Hellenistic eras. Course themes include Ancient Greek and Roman (et.al.) perspectives on the nature of reality, knowledge, virtue, happiness, the soul, logic, and philosophical inquiry. Core: AH. Prerequisite:    English Department Determination of Reading and Writing Competency for ENGL 101
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  • PHIL 215: Modern Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    This course is a survey of major Modern Western Philosophical traditions, texts, and thinkers, emphasizing Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism and ending with Kant. Course themes include perspectives on the nature of reality, knowledge, the relationship between mind and body, and the limits and possibilities of human reason. Core AH. Prerequisite:    PHIL 201
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  • PHIL 220: Existentialism

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    This course is a survey of major existentialist thinkers and traditions in philosophy, beginning with Hegel, and including such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Themes addressed include authenticity, bad faith, freedom, anxiety, nihilism, mortality, existentialist ethics, phenomenology, humanism, perception, the body, and truth. Core: AH. Prerequisite:    PHIL 201
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  • PHIL 225: What is Freedom?

    3.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    An investigation into one of the most central and influential philosophical concepts in our lives and cultures: freedom. What does it mean to be free? What is the nature of free will? Does free will even exist? What is the relationship between personal, metaphysical, and political conceptions of freedom? This course will include a survey of major thinkers and traditions on the subject of freedom. Core: AH. Prerequisite:    English Department Determination of Reading and Writing Competency for ENGL 101
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  • PHYS 101: Physics I

    4.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    This is an introductory, algebra-based, problem-solving physics course with a lab component. Topics covered are one and two-dimensional motion, forces, Newton's laws, work, power, energy, momentum, rotation, equilibrium, fluids, temperature, and heat. Core: SCI. Also available through Online Learning. Prerequisite:    MATH 140 (Grade of C or Higher)
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  • PHYS 151: Physics II

    4.00 Credits
    Northampton County Area Community College

    This is the follow-on physics course to PHYS 101 (Physics I), and is an introductory, algebra-based, problem-solving course with a lab component. Topics covered are vibrations and waves, sound, electric charge and electric fields, circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic waves, light, and optics. Core: SCI. Also available through Online Learning. Prerequisite:    PHYS 101 (Grade of C or Higher)
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