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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
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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 via 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 via Online Learning. Prerequisite:    PHYS 101 (Grade of C or Higher)
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• PHYS 152: Physical Science II

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  A study of basic physics and chemistry including properties of matter, force and motion, work and machines, heat and combustion, electricity and magnetism, mechanics of liquids and gases, basic chemical reactions, atomic energy and radiation. Core: SCI. Also available through Online Learning.
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• PHYS 215: Physics for Science and Engineering I

  5.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Physical quantities, particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, rotational mechanics, equilibrium, heat, and thermodynamics. Core: SCI. Prerequisite:    MATH 181 Corequisite:    MATH 181
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• PHYS 225: Physics for Science and Engineering II

  5.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This is the follow-on physics course to PHYS 215 (Physics for Science & Engineering I), and is an engineering and scientist level, calculus-based, problem-solving physics course with lab component. Topics covered are vibrations and waves, sound, electric charge and electric fields, circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic waves, light, optics and modern physics (quantum, atomic, relativity). Core: SCI. Prerequisite:    PHYS 215 (Grade of C or Higher)
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• POLS 101: Introduction to Political Science

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Basic issues of political science including political theory, comparative political institutions, dominate ideologies and ideas, the importance of law, the domestic and Third World struggles for civil and political equality and international relations. Also available through Online Learning. Approved for the Honors Program.
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• POLS 105G: American Constitutional Law

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  A survey of constitutional law emphasizing civil rights and individual liberties, this course will provide students with a general understanding of the major issues in constitutional law, including the setup of the US Government, the separation of powers between branches of federal government, federalism and states' rights, and the balance of the interests of the government with that of the individual in a diverse society. Core: CT, D, IL, SIT, WI. Also Available via Online Learning. Prerequisite:    ENGL 101
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