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PHIL 0890 - TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY (VARIOUS)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intensive but introductory level seminar is reserved for special philosophical topics that do not fit standard course-catalog categories. Issues discussed vary from year to year, but tend to be narrowly focused and specialized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1020 - PLATO
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course examining Plato’s main views both in their historical context, and as they influence our own thinking today; the relations between Socrates and the sophists are also studied.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Any other Philosophy course.
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PHIL 1040 - ARISTOTLE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course examining the basic concepts of Aristotle’s metaphysics, physics, ethics and logic.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1060 - HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination, at the advanced undergraduate level, of the three major schools of the Hellenistic age—the stoics, epicureans, and skeptics—and their views about ethics, epistemology, and the nature of reality.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1070 - TOPICS IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An investigation of a particular topic or figure in the field of ancient philosophy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1080 - MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course examines selected major figures in European philosophy during the middle ages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1110 - RATIONALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination, at the advanced undergraduate level, of several important rationalist philosophers, such as Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1140 - EMPIRICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination, at the advanced undergraduate level, of several important empiricist philosophers, such as Bacon, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Reid.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1170 - KANT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the philosophy of Kant, focusing on the “critique of pure reason”. The course seeks to enable the advanced undergraduate to understand the theories and arguments of this revolutionary and rewarding work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 0210 or 0212 or any 1000-level Philosophy course.
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PHIL 1180 - 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey, at the advanced undergraduate level, of the thought and unity of the three great German philosophers of the nineteenth century; Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1200 - 20TH CENTURY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course examines major trends in contemporary analytic philosophy, including, for instance, some (but not all) of logical empiricism, logical positivism, Wittgenstein and his followers, ordinary language (“oxford”) philosophy, Quine and his followers, Sellars and his followers, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Any other Philosophy course.
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PHIL 1225 - WITTGENSTEIN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In depth study of some central sections of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. The objective will be not only to improve understanding of issues about language, mind, and reality raised in that brilliant but cryptic work, but also to situate the work historically in relation to Wittgenstein’s earlier masterpiece Tractatus Logico-Philo sophicus; the analytic tradition in 20th century philosophy; and modern philosophy in general.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1240 - AMERICAN PRAGMATISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course in the “classical” American pragmatists, especially Pierce, James, Dewey, and Mead.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1290 - TOPICS IN HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Plato’s argument for philosopher queens in his Republic and John Stuart Mill’s essay The Subjection of Women are two well-known cases in which women and their status are addressed in the western philosophical canon. Also well-known are claims that Aristotle’s views about females and women exerted significant influence for a number of centuries. In this course we will be concerned with the arguments of a number of male and female philosophers and political theorists whose ideas contributed to the intellectual conversation about women in Europe from the ancient period through the 19th century. We will examine arguments concerning the nature and moral character of women, how they should be educated, and their proper role in both the family and the state. We will situate these views and arguments within the broader philosophical contexts in which they were developed, and consider their influence on the development of western thought about women.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1300 - ETHICAL THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced undergraduate examination of various topics in ethical theory, such as ethical relativism, subjective and objective value, the relation of reason and ethics, ethical realism, utilitarianism and contractarianism, and virtues and vices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 0300 or 0330 or 0332 or 0350 or any 1000 level Philosophy course.
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PHIL 1310 - HISTORY OF ETHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of some of the principal moral philosophers in one or more of the major historical periods from Homeric times to the present day—such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Mill, and Rawls.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1315 - APPLIED ETHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The application of ethical theory to specific issues of contemporary life. Specific topics vary with each offering of the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1320 - TOPICS IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course concentrates on a few selected philosophical problems concerning the nature of society; the selection will vary from one offering of the course to another. The course may be historical or topical in approach.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1330 - TOPICS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course concentrates on a few selected philosophical problems concerning the nature and justification of government; the selection will vary from one offering of the course to another.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1340 - FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comparison of biological, psychological, and economic theories of the nature and causes of the oppression of women. Authors studied might include de Beauvoir, Freud, Marx, Veblen, and Emma Geldman.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1360 - BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course examines a selection of ethical problems arising in medicine, such as euthanasia, abortion, and the allocation of resources, and/or ethical issues relating to other species, such as vegetarianism, animal rights, and possible interplanetary morality. The selection will vary from one offering of the course to the next.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1370 - PHILOSOPHY OF ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course addresses philosophical problems that arise in connection with art, such as the nature of works of art, the comparison and contrast between representational and non-representational art, the definition of beauty, and special obligations concerning art works.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1380 - BUSINESS ETHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course considers a selection of ethical issues that arise in connection with business needs and practices, such as employer-employee relations, truth in advertising, responsibilities to consumers, fair and unfair competitive practices, environmental effects, contractual obligations, liability for damages, and governmental regulation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1385 - ETHICS AND ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Contemporary societies, at least in the West, are often characterized in terms of two basic social institutions: liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This course explores these institutions in a philosophical context.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1390 - PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course examines a selection of philosophical questions that arise in connection with the theory and practice of law, including constitutional, criminal, and tort law. Topics might include such issues as the comparative role of judges and legislators in making law, the nature of justice, and the relation of law to morality.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1395 - ETHICS AND PRACTICAL REASON
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1400 - RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1410 - PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1420 - PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course in recent and contemporary philosophy of language; topics covered vary somewhat, but typically include many of: reference and descriptions, empiricist criteria of meaning, truth, the theory of speech acts, the analytic-synthetic distinction, theory of translation, possible worlds semantics, pragmatic theories of meaning, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1440 - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course in the philosophy of mind, taking up problems of both historical and contemporary interest. Topics vary, but are likely to include many of mind-body dualism, materialist reductionism, phenomenalism, the other-minds problem, philosophical behaviorism, qualia, propositional attitude ascriptions, intentionality, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1460 - THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course in recent and contemporary epistemology. Topics vary somewhat, but generally include many of the following: skepticism, sense data and the myth of the given, induction and confirmation, definition of “knowing-that-p”, holism and coherence, the status of common sense, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1470 - PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course examines critically a selection of philosophical issues that arise in connection with religious faith, such as the rationality of believing in the existence of god, possible pragmatic justifications of faith based upon its beneficial consequences, relations between religious and scientific knowledge, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1480 - METAPHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course considers a selection of central problems in metaphysics, such as the problems of realism, essentialism, free will, necessity and possibility, substance and property, persistence through time (including personal identity), the nature of truth, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1490 - TOPICS IN SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course devoted to specific problem areas in contemporary philosophy that are not dealt with in regular courses. Thus, the topics covered will vary considerably from one offering of the course to the next, but they might include such things as the theory of action, the philosophy of history, the free-will problem, realism and relativism, personal identity, and such like.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1500 - SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course develops skills in formal and informal reasoning in predicate-quantifier logic, and covers formal semantics for sentential logic, informal semantics for predicate-quantifier logic, and elementary syntactic metatheory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 0500
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PHIL 1520 - LOGICAL METATHEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of some of the fundamental concepts, results, and proofs in symbolic logic. Topics to be covered include propositional and predicate calculi, first-order theories and their models, Loewenheim-Skolem theorem, Peano arithmetic, and Goedel’s incompleteness theorem.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 1500
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PHIL 1540 - COMPUTABILITY THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the theory of computability. Topics include models of computation, decidability, enumerability, computational complexity, and computability and the philosophy of mind.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 1500
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PHIL 1550 - PROBABILITY AND INDUCTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of major issues regarding inductive reasoning in everyday life and in science. Various concepts of probability will be examined and related to human decision making. The classic problems of justification and induction, due to David Hume, will be discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 0500
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PHIL 1555 - RATIONALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on an influential analysis of rationality: the game-theoretic notion, which has agents attempting to maximize their expected utility. We will consider the foundations of this approach, criticisms of it, and applications of it to several areas of philosophy (including political philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1580 - PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of issues in the philosophy of mathematics, emphasizing both a historical perspective and contemporary logical foundations of mathematics. Special attention is given to geometry or number theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 1500
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PHIL 1590 - TOPICS IN LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced undergraduate course concentrating on some special topic in logic, such as algebraic logic, modal logic, relevance logic, theory of truth, applications of logic to philosophy of science, or foundations of measurement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHIL 0500
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PHIL 1600 - PHILOSOPHY & RISE MODERN SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course explores the mutually reinforcing relationships between modern philosophy and modern empirical science in and around the seventeenth century. Authors studied might include Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Newton, and Leibniz, as well as contemporary historians of science and philosophy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1610 - INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a broad, introductory survey of current issues in philosophy of science and treats philosophical problems such as confirmation, which are common to all sciences, as well as problems peculiar to individual sciences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1612 - PHIL OF 20TH CENTURY PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of the fascinating philosophical problems to which modern physical theories have given rise. No previous formal training in physics or mathematics will be presupposed, since the basic physical ideas needed will be introduced largely qualitatively with an emphasis on concepts rather than equations. Topics will vary from year to year with instructor, but center around classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1640 - PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course covers such topics as mind-body reductionism, behaviorism, functionalism, cognitivism, and the relation of artificial intelligence research to psychological theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1650 - PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Philosophy of biology will consider foundational conceptual issues in biology like the nature and structure of biological explanation, the possibility of laws in evolutionary theory, the relationship between different causal components of biological processes (genetics and development), the problem of species reality and classification, the explanatory character of ascription of biological function, and the extension of biological explanations to human psychology and culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1660 - PARADOX
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores paradoxes both for the fun of untangling an intriguing puzzle and for the more serious reason of the easy access they provide to some of the most important foundational issues in philosophy and the sciences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1670 - PHILOSOPHY OF NEUROSCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will serve as in introduction to the conceptual problems around neuroscience for students with and without a background in experimental neuroscience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1682 - FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes three concepts of determinism—the logical determinism, logical determinism or fatalism, and physical determinism—and examines the various philosophical arguments designed either to show that determinism and free will do clash or alternatively that they are reconcilable.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1690 - TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Discussion, at the advanced undergraduate level, of selected problems such as confirmation, concept formation, the nature of theories. In any given term, the course might focus on problems in physical, biological, or social sciences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1760 - RELIGION AND RATIONALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1762 - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) was the greatest Jewish thinker of the medieval period, and remains highly influential today. Born in Spain, he became the leading rabbinic authority of his time by writing a compendium of Jewish law, the Mishnah Torah. He was also famous as a physician and author of medical works. His widest impact, however, has been through his masterpiece of philosophy of religion, The Guide of the Perplexed. This engaging, elusive book is important not only for its influence on such major thinkers as Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton, but also for its insight into questions of religion and rationality. In this course we will study virtually all of the Guide, giving special attention to Maimonides’ account of the fall, his theory of religious language, his arguments for the existence of god, his doctrine of creation, his teachings on religious experience, prophecy, and revelation, and his views on human perfection and immortality. In our sessions we will work closely and carefully through the text, at each step following up Maimonides’ hints and challenges to his readers. Our goal will be not merely to appreciate the surface purport of the book, but also to discern its deeper implications, through which Maimonides sought to suggest, to a few of his readers, the secret meaning of the bible itself.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PHIL 1840 - SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course addresses two questions: does the scientific understanding of the world suffer from a kind of incompleteness that can be remedied by the supernaturalist religions? Or is there even a clash between contemporary science and such religion?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1890 - ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY (VARIOUS)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intensive, advanced-level seminar is reserved for special philosophical topics that do not fit standard course-catalog categories. Issues discussed vary from year to year, but tend to be narrowly focused and specialized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Any Other Philosophy Course
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PHIL 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY—UNDERGRADUATE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
This course is a way of offering university credit in philosophy for relevant experiences or work undertaken independently, with little or no formal interaction with an instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY—UNDERGRADUATE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
This course provides an individualized study program, on a topic not covered in the regular curriculum, under the close supervision of a faculty advisor. The student is generally expected to produce a substantial piece of written work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH—UNDERGRADUATE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
This course is a way of offering university credit in philosophy for research work undertaken by a student under the direction of a faculty member in connection with that faculty member’s own research.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHIL 1940 - HONORS THESIS/MAJORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a special directed study for senior philosophy majors who wish to write an honors thesis over two terms. Use course PHIL 1941 for the second term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PHIL 1941 - HONORS THESIS 2/MAJORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the second term of course 1940.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PHIL 1942 - HONORS THESIS 3/MAJORS
Minimum Credits: 6
Maximum Credits: 6
This is a special directed study for senior philosophy majors who wish to write an honors thesis in one term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PHYS 0081 - SPACE AND TIME, LIGHT AND MATTER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces non-science students to the ideas of physics, with emphasis on modern physics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or any MATH greater than or equal to MATH 0031 (Min Grade ‘C’) or MATH PLACEMENT SCORE (61 or greater)
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PHYS 0082 - SCIENCE OF MUSICAL SOUNDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the physical ideas underlying musical phenomena.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or any MATH greater than or equal to MATH 0031 (Min Grade ‘C’) or MATH PLACEMENT SCORE (61 or greater)
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PHYS 0087 - PHYSICS AND SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the physical ideas underlying the role of nuclear science in modern life.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or any MATH greater than or equal to MATH 0031 (Min Grade ‘C’) or MATH PLACEMENT SCORE (61 or greater)
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PHYS 0088 - THE PHYSICS OF ENERGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory course on energy. The course will describe both qualitatively and quantitively energy use, energy generation, and sources of energy. In this course, we will explore potential energy sources and the limitations of potential energy sources for specific practical applications. The course will also describe many of the basic physical considerations related to climate change as this phenomenon has now become intimately connected with energy use.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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PHYS 0089 - PHYSICS AND SCIENCE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at some of the physical ideas underlying stories by leading writers of science fiction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or any MATH greater than or equal to MATH 0031 (Min Grade ‘C’) or MATH PLACEMENT SCORE (61 or greater)
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PHYS 0091 - CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or MATH 0031 or greater (Min Grade ‘C’) or Math Placement Score 61 or greater
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PHYS 0110 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the first term of a two-term, algebra-based sequence in introductory physics. This term deals with mechanics, heat and thermodynamics, and waves.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0020 or any MATH greater than or equal to MATH 0031
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PHYS 0111 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the second term of a two-term, algebra-based sequence in introductory physics. This term deals with electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0110 or 0174 or 0475; MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for all listed Courses
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PHYS 0174 - BASIC PHYSICS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 1 (INTEGRATED)
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The integrated curriculum version of PHYS 0104, the first part of a two-term sequence (0174-0175) introduces students to the basic principles of mechanics. An effort has been made to achieve a better integration of physics with the first term of calculus, engineering, and chemistry. The theory of waves and the kinetic theory of gases will be discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: MATH 0220 or 0235
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PHYS 0175 - BASIC PHYSICS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2 (INTEGRATED)
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The integrated curriculum version of PHYS 0105, the second part of a two-term sequence (0174-0175), introduces students to the basic principles of physics. An effort has been made to achieve a better integration of physics with the first term of calculus, engineering, and chemistry. Modern physics (special relativity, elementary quantum mechanics, and atomic structure) will be discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ:(PHYS 0174 MIN GRAD ‘C’ or 0475 MIN GRAD ‘C’) and ( PREQ: MATH 0235 MIN GRAD ‘C’ or CREQ: MATH 0230)
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PHYS 0212 - INTRODUCTION TO LABORATORY PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is an introductory physics laboratory associated with the physics 0110-0111 sequence.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: PHYS 0111 or 0175 or 0476
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PHYS 0219 - BASIC LABORATORY PHYSICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is an introductory physics laboratory associated with the physics 0104-0105-0106 sequence.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: PHYS 0175 or 0476
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PHYS 0310 - FIRST YEAR SEMINAR IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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PHYS 0410 - PHYSICS OF THE HUMAN BODY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHYS 0411 - PHYSICS OF THE HUMAN BODY 2
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHYS 0475 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This is the first term of a two-term honors version of the physics 0104-0105-0106 sequence. This term deals with mechanics, waves and thermodynamics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: MATH 0230 or 0235
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PHYS 0476 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This is the second term of a two-term honors version of the physics 0104-0105-0106 sequence. This term deals with electricity and magnetism, relativity, and an introduction to modern physics and quantum phenomena.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [PHYS 0174 (MIN GRADE ‘B’) or PHYS 0475 (MIN GRADE ‘C’)] and (MATH 0230 or 0235); CREQ: MATH 0240
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PHYS 0477 - INTRODUCTION TO THERMAL PHYSICS, RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0175 (B- or better) or PHYS 0476 (C or better)
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PHYS 0479 - PRINCIPLES OF MODERN PHYSICS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the first term of a two-term, intermediate level course in modern physics. This term deals with special relativity, molecular theory of gases, the development of quantum theory, and an introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications to atomic structure.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [PHYS 0175 (MIN GRAD: ‘C’) or PHYS 0476 (MIN GRAD: ‘C-‘)]; CREQ: MATH 0240
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PHYS 0481 - PRINCIPLES OF MODERN PHYSICS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the second term of a two-term intermediate-level course in modern physics. This term deals with further applications of quantum mechanics to atoms, molecules, and solids, as well as an introduction to the physics of nuclei and particles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0477 or 0479 MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for all listed Courses
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PHYS 0520 - MODERN PHYSICS MEASUREMENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This honors laboratory course provides an introduction to the scientific questions and techniques in modern physical measurements, including exposure to various current experimental puzzles and accomplishments, hands-on experience with research grade equipment and microcomputer-controlled data acquisition interfaces, data analysis (and simple data analysis programs), prior preparation for data taking, and error estimation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0175 or 0476
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PHYS 0525 - ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A laboratory course designed to introduce the student to contemporary analog and digital electronics techniques used in basic science and engineering research. Topics include the study of measurement instruments, passive circuits, diode and transistor circuits, operational amplifiers and feedback, digital gates, analog to digital and digital to analog circuits. The course consists of a lecture and a lab.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0219 or 0520; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ for listed Courses
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PHYS 0679 - PRINCIPLES OF MODERN PHYSICS 1 WRITING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This is a writing practicum to accompany physics 0479.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: PHYS 0479; PLAN: Physics(BS) or Physics and Astronomy(BS, BA)
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PHYS 1310 - UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The undergraduate seminar provides a venue for students to discuss topics of interest in physics and astronomy. It gives students experience presenting research in the form of a poster presentation. The seminar will give the students a taste of what conducting scientific research and presenting scientific results is all about.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0477 or 0479) and (PHYS 0520 or 0525 or 1361 or 1426 or ASTRON 1263) or (PHYS 0219 and ASTRON greater than or equal to ASTRON 1120 or PHYS greater than or equal to PHYS 1321
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PHYS 1311 - UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The undergraduate seminar provides a venue for students to discuss topics of interest in physics and astronomy. It gives students experience presenting research, both as a short oral communication, and in the form of a poster presentation, in formats similar to conference talks and poster papers given by researchers in the field at topical meetings. The seminar will give the students a taste of what conducting scientific research, and presenting scientific results, is all about.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 1310
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PHYS 1321 - COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will master computational techniques and good programming practice and apply these skills to enhance their understand of problems in physics and astronomy. The first 3 weeks of the course will introduce essential programming strategies and debugging techniques with the rest of the course devoted to applications. Topics include interpolation and approximation techniques, ordinary differential equations (e.g., projectile motion with drag and spin), oscillators (linear and nonlinear), orbits, data analysis/curve fitting, partial differential equations (e.g., fluid mechanics), and Fourier transforms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: (PHYS 0477 or 0479) and (PHYS 0219 or 0520 or CS 0008 or ENGR 0012) and MATH 0240 and (MATH 0290 or 1270)
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PHYS 1331 - MECHANICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an intermediate-level course dealing with classical mechanics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0175 or 0476) and MATH 0240 MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for listed Courses]; CREQ: (MATH 0280 or 1180 or 1185) and (MATH 0290 or 1270)
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PHYS 1341 - THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the basic ideas of equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0477 or 0479) and MATH 0240 and (MATH 0290 or 1270); MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for all listed Courses
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PHYS 1351 - INTERMEDIATE ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an intermediate-level course in electricity and magnetism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [(PHYS 0175 or 0476) and MATH 0240; MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for listed Courses)]; CREQ: MATH 0290 or 1270
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PHYS 1361 - WAVE MOTION AND OPTICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an intermediate-level course dealing with wave motion and optics. Laboratory work is included as part of this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0219 or 0520) and MATH 0240(MIN GRAD: ‘C’); CREQ: MATH 0280 or 1180 or 1185
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PHYS 1370 - INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the first-term of a two-term introduction to quantum mechanics. This term introduces the necessary formalism and treats some of its basic applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0477 or PHYS 0479) and (MATH 0280 or 1180 or 1185); CREQ: PHYS 1331 and 1351; MIN GRAD: ‘C’ for all listed Courses except PHYS 0477
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PHYS 1371 - INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the second-term of a two-term introduction to quantum mechanics. The quantum formalism developed in the first term will be applied in a variety of physical situations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 1370; MIN GRAD: ‘C’
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PHYS 1372 - ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced course in which Maxwell’s equations are applied to a variety of electromagnetic phenomena.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0477 or 0479) and 1351 and (MATH 0280 or 1180 or 1185); CREQ: PHYS 1331; MIN GRAD: ‘C-’ PHYS 1351 / MATH 0280, 1180, 1185
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PHYS 1373 - MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with mathematical techniques that are commonly used in physics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: PHYS 1370
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PHYS 1374 - SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0477 or PHYS 0479 or CHEM 0710 or CHEM 1410
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PHYS 1375 - FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PHYS 1376 - INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PHYS 0111 or 0175 or 476) and [(MATH 0230 or 0235) or (MATH 0220 and STAT 1000)]
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PHYS 1378 - INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course gives an introduction into the theory concepts and the experimental methods used for nuclear and particle physics research. While some of the basic principles will be discussed from a historical perspective, the emphasis of this course is on modern developments, such as the standard model and the Higgs Boson, supersymmtry, extra dimensions, dark matter, CP-violation and baryogenesis, and neutrino oscillations. The main aspects of physics processes will be understood and calculated from symmetry principles and kinematics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: 1370
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PHYS 1415 - QUANTUM PHYSICS AT THE NANOSCALE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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PHYS 1426 - MODERN PHYSICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is an advanced laboratory course that introduces students to the experimental techniques and equipment used in research laboratories.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0525 and (0477 or 0479)
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