Prerequisite: None
Students will evaluate patients of all ages presenting with a variety of disorders ranging from common respiratory and cutaneous allergies to uncommon immunologic disorders. Students will gain experience with allergen skin testing, pulmonary function tests and microscopic examinations of sputum and nasal secretions. Two conferences and two pre-clinic lectures are presented each week.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: None
This elective consists of research experience in selected areas of pediatrics through special arrangement with the pediatric faculty. For example, if a student desires to have an in-depth experience around a procedural technique or a specific investigative methodology, he/she may arrange this with a member of the faculty.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 2 Other Contact Hours: 40
Prerequisite: PED 5000
The Pediatric substitute intern will serve as an active member (acting intern) of the Pediatric House Staff under the supervision of the Pediatric Resident and a Pediatric Faculty member. The student will have the opportunity for progressive experience in inpatient care. One student will be assigned to the General Inpatient Pediatric service, and one student will be assigned to the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology service. In December, January, February and March, there will be openings for two students on the General Inpatient Service. When signing up for this elective, please specify General or Hematology/Oncology. Due to the limited number of Pediatric Sub-Internships available at MCG, only those students who have declared for Pediatrics will be able to sign up during the first six weeks of the elective sign-up period. After this initial six-week sign up period, all students will be able to apply for any available positions, regardless of career choice.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 50
The student will develop his/her clinical skills by evaluating and following children and young adults with hematologic or oncologic disorders. Students will follow and manage patients admitted to the Pediatric Hem/Onc Service.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 40
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This special elective provides the student an opportunity to participate in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and hepatic disease in children and adolescents (acute and chronic). Patients are seen in clinic, on the inpatient wards and through the operating rooms and endoscopy suite. Topics include acute and chronic diarrhea, recurrent abdominal pain, inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis (acute and chronic), persistent vomiting, hyperbilirubinemia, gastrointestinal bleeding, constipation, enteral and parenteral nutrition. A directed reading list will be provided to supplement “hands-on” experience.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 30
PEDS 5012 - Pediatric Elective at Memorial Health University Medical Center
Prerequisite: PED 5000
The student will perform as an acting intern. The student will assume primary care
responsibility for patients admitted to the Children’s Hospital under the direct supervision of the faculty. The student will participate in the evaluation and management
of emergency pediatric problems.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: PED 5000
The Objectives of this rotation include: To provide a one month rotation on the Pediatric Infectious Disease Service in order for the student to gain greater experience in diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in infants and children. To learn how to evaluate and complete (write-up) a pediatric consult. To integrate the clinical evaluation of a child with a presumed infectious disease with appropriate microbiology tests (bacterial, fungal and viral cultures, rapid antigen testing, HIV viral load/genotype, serology, etc.) This may include some time working with microbiology technologists directly on the processing of culture specimens, evaluating growth/change in cultures, and interpreting biochemical and other tests to identify specific organisms, etc. To research and present one major topic in pediatric infectious diseases during this rotation.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 40
Prerequisite: PED 5000
Student will act in the same capacity as a first year house officer. Student will be responsible for admit and discharge examinations, attendance at deliveries and management of well infants and those with minor problems under the supervision of a pediatric resident and general pediatric faculty member. Four in-house call nights are required, as chosen by the student.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 40
PEDS 5016 - University Hospital Pediatric Emergency Room
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This elective offers the student exposure to a variety of presentations and problems in Pediatric Acute Care; medical illnesses, trauma, minor surgical procedures, as well as major emergencies. There will be an opportunity to assume progressive responsibility for patient care as an extern under the supervision and guidance of Emergency Room pediatricians. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning and you will follow your patients’ progress in this unique Emergency Room setting. You will be required to work every other weekend.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 5 Other Contact Hours: 40
This elective involves both outpatient and inpatient care. The student will learn how to formulate a diagnostic workup. A treatment plan will be developed and the multidisciplinary approach to patient management will be emphasized. The student will
attend outpatient clinics each day and evaluate both new and established patients. Blood, spinal fluid and bone marrow smears will be reviewed. A research project can be a part of this elective if the student so desires.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: Must have completed PED 5000 with a grade of B or above
This course is intended for students interested in critical care of infants and children. Students are assigned patients under the supervision of the critical care team and pediatric ICU attending. The focus of student teaching is to learn the basic skills needed for rapidly assessing and treating the critically ill child. Students are taught how to integrate a multiple organ systems approach to problem solving for such medical conditions as respiratory failure, shock, coma, pediatric trauma and care of the post-operative cardiac patient. This elective is NOT an acting internship. The setting is the Pediatric ICU at MCG Hospital. Those individuals interested in pediatrics, emergency medicine, anesthesiology or surgery are encouraged to enroll. Night call is arranged through the Pediatric ICU attending and average one night out of four.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 12 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisites: PED 5000
Students will expand their knowledge of medical
genetics, regarding inheritance of traits, genetic basis
of diseases and birth defects, and how genetic
disorders are diagnosed and managed.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 30
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This elective is designed to familiarize the student with normal variations in pre-pubertal and pubertal growth patterns, the diagnostic approach to pediatric endocrine conditions and the ongoing management of the conditions. The weekly Pediatric Diabetes Clinics offer the student the opportunity to become familiar with the multidisciplinary approach to a chronic condition. In addition, each week there will be a discussion of a chosen topic.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 20 Other Contact Hours: 20
Prerequisite: PED 5000
A four week rotation in Pediatric Pulmonology will include both inpatient consultation and outpatient management regarding patients with cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, asthma, recurrent pneumonias and other common and uncommon respiratory disorders. Didactic sessions are conducted weekly with a reading list provided at the beginning of the course.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 24 Other Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This elective provides a concentrated student exposure to adolescent medicine in the primary care (outpatient) environment. The spectrum of care can be expected to include acute and chronic illnesses, gynecologic care, sports medicine, psychosocial and family disorders, growth problems, contraceptive counseling, issues related to adolescent sexuality, and substance abuse disorders. The instructional focus will concentrate upon accurate, extended history taking and communication skills needed to care for this challenging patient population. Recognition and appreciation of the common maladies of adolescence will be taught and their treatments will be demonstrated. Ample time is allowed for the student to review the current literature on a medical topic of interest and write a review article during the month.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 20
PEDS 5024 - Pediatric Critical Care MHUMC Savannah
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This elective in pediatric critical care provides the senior medical student (acting intern) the opportunity to evaluate and manage the critically ill pediatric patient. The student will participate in the diagnosis and management of critically ill children using the history, physical examination, laboratory data and other invasive and non-invasive techniques. A physiologic approach to the evaluation and management of the critically ill patient will be taught and emphasized as it applies to pediatric critical care. Major topics to be covered include: fluid and electrolytes, closed head injury, seizures, respiratory distress/arrest, shock (cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic), poisoning/toxicology, and sepsis.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 8 Lecture Hours: 12 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: PEDS 5000
Students will work daily with Dr. Carter in the Special
Child Clinic caring for children with chronic medical,
developmental and neuro-muscular conditions.
Students will have weekly readings on developmental
issues.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 12 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: PED 5000
The objective of the Neonatology Sub-Internship is to give the student an understanding of the practice of Neonatology. The student will be offered the opportunity to provide supervised primary care to neonates in the NICU with responsibilities similar to the NICU resident on a limited number of patients. The clinical experience will be supplemented with a core neonatal lecture series and individualized conferences with the Neonatologist. Students electing this elective should have interest in Pediatrics, Neonatology, Perinatal Medicine, Obstetrics of Intensive Care.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 10 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 50
Prerequisite: PED 5000
This elective will provide the student with experiences in (a) Pediatric Cardiology, (b) Pediatric Gastroenterology, and (c) Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. (1) In Pediatric Cardiology, the student will attend outpatient pediatric cardiology clinics one or two days per week. At the end of the elective the student should be able to describe the components of the normal and abnormal pediatric cardiac examination, discuss the events of the cardiac cycle as they relate to the hemodynamics of congenital heart disease and discuss the evaluation and treatment of patients with palpitations, chest pain or syncope. (2) In Pediatric Gastroenterology, the student will attend pediatric gastroenterology clinic on or two days a week. The student will follow inpatient gastroenterology patients with the attending physician. The student will also observe endoscopic procedures and during the month will prepare a pertinent topic for discussion. (3) In Pediatric Hematology/Oncology the student will follow inpatient and outpatient hematology/oncology patients and consults. The student will be exposed to a wide variety of common pediatric hematologic disorders. The student will gain experience in performing lumbar punctures and bone marrow aspirates.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 7 Lecture Hours: 10 Other Contact Hours: 40
PEDS 5035 - Pediatric Assistantship at Special Needs Summer Camp
This unique elective allows the student to participate as part of the medical team each week in a camp setting with various medical conditions such as brain injury, chronic renal disease/solid organ transplant, hereditary bleeding disorders, cancer, asthma, emotional abuse, and congenital neuromuscular disorders.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 1 Other Contact Hours: 7
In this course the students will take ownership of learning; develop a strong foundation in clinical reasoning; demonstrate understanding of improvement process and capacity for self-improvement; and work collaboratively and effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team
The student will research in depth a topic of his/her choice and will prepare a paper for presentation/publication. Optionally, the student may participate in clinical rounds and other activities in the Department of Pastoral Care.
Students will report to the Clinic and work alongside the attending that is there that day. They will see patients, present and participate in the diagnostic workup and the therapeutic decisions as directed by the attending that day. During the rotation, the student will also pick a problem that is presented at Clinic that they have an interest in, do a literature search, write a short paper on the synopsis of the literature and present a power point presentation to the appropriate attending.
PEDS 5085 - Phase I Elective: Students in Community
Prerequisite: None
Students for Community Involvement (SCI) is a two-part elective focused on teaching first and second year medical students principles of preventive cardiology and then giving students an opportunity of going into classrooms throughout the state of Georgia to spread the word about preventive medicine. As part of the elective, there are a series of noon-time “Eat and Learn” lectures on cardiovascular disease, elucidating the role of nutrition, exercise, and smoking in the disease process.
PEDS 5086 - Introduction to Pediatric Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Research
Prerequisite: None
Shadow faculty and research staff in their research activities. Topics include evaluation of genetic and environmental contributors to cardiovascular (CV) disease development in youth, neurohormonal mechanisms responsible for changes in CV structure and function,, social and community determinates of health behavior, prevention of CV disease and type 2 diabetes in youth via exercise, smoking prevention, stress reduction, safe exercise practices in the heat incl. Sickle cell trait, and community interventions. Under the mentorship of a GPI faculty member, each student will complete an annotated bibliography in an area to be selected by the student within the first 3 weeks, and give a brief talk on the topic.
Prerequisite: None
This elective is an observership in which students will be learning about common neonatal problems. Feeding techniques and their rational, and treatment modalities used in common problems observed.
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory, Audit
Credit Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 4 Other Contact Hours: 10
Prerequisite: None
The student will see children in the Special Child Clinic. They will be a part of the evaluations with the team decision making process. They will have opportunity to observe children with autism, cerebral palsy, behavior problems, development delay and school problems.
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory, Audit
Credit Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 1 Other Contact Hours: 2
PEDS 5089 - Phase I Elective: Fetal Echocardiography
Prerequisite: None
Students will attend echocardio lectures for pediatric cardiology and learn how to make measurements in preparation for summer research.
Prerequisite: None
Student will step out of their student role and into a true-to-life “hands-on” approach to family-centered care in a patient’s home/community environment; students will interact with families/children with chronic medical challenges and/or children with disabilities/special needs. Students will be encouraged to see beyond the child’s diagnosis as they see how families accommodate for their child’s illness/disability in daily life. The concept of family-centered care will be the basis of this course.
Prerequisite: None
A study in the practice o utilizing the best and most effective healing modalities from “Complementary” or “Alternative” Medicine in conjunction with conventional, or “Western” medicine.
PEDS 5095 - Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Students will engage in a case-based learning approach in order to better understand a variety of pediatric hematology/oncology conditions such as disorder of coagulation, leukemia, anemia, and lymphoma. Course will involve case discussions, didactic lectures, and observation of common laboratory procedures. In addition, students will be able to interact with pediatric hematology/oncology faculty in order to ask questions about career path in this area.
This elective will expose students to atypical child development through observation and interaction under the guidance of childcare development professionals.
PEDS 5097 - Use of a Sim Env to Practice Pat Assement, Initial Mgmt, Common Proc Skills, and Patient Safety Prin
For centuries, medical education has relied on the apprenticeship model of “see one, do one, teach one,” and the inexperienced trainee developed their skills while practicing on patients. In this model of training, trainees are inexperienced and lack confidence in resuscitation of sick patients and in basic procedures when they begin their internship. Performing resuscitation and procedures for the first time on real patients with the attendant is no longer acceptable to society or to the trainee as the risks and consequences for harm are too great. Simulation training represents a paradigm shift in medical education that allows for safe skill development. Supervising physicians and residency programs can now optimally prepare providers in a safe environment, away from the patient, before allowing them to perform a procedure on a patient. Students can learn from their mistakes through reflection, discussion, and repetition. Simulations may be created as needed, allowing for students to learn at their level and pace. Simulation learning may even decrease the duration of necessary training. This short course will help participants in understanding the role of simulation in understanding the inherent risks involved in management of a sick patient and possible remedies to improve patient safety.
Starting with a clinical vignette, students will decide how they want to approach the care of a patient. Selected Children’s Medical Center patients will relate to concurrent material that is being covered in the Phase I curriculum in order to reinforce the clinical importance of lecture material. Pediatric residents will moderate interactive case discussions and present patient labs and imaging. At the summary of each case, students will get hands-on experience performing relevant clinical techniques (i.e. ultrasound, EKG, and spirogram).
DPHM 5002 - Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dental Practice
This course will provide the student with a working understanding of pharmacology and pharmaco-therapeutics as applied to dental practice. Further, this course includes the pharmacology of drugs that affect the central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system and endocrine function. Students will become familiar with drugs used in dental practice and the drugs that the patients may be taking for medical conditions.
This course is a seminar review and an update of pharmacologic topics. A National Board examination package has been assembled from the last 7 released exams. The questions are grouped according to topics and questions are identified by year. At each session, students will register their responses to selected questions (either exact or modifications of those which have appeared on the National Board Examinations) utilizing a computerized program. The program allows instantaneous display of percentile distribution of answers to each question and thereby class performance on each question. After students have attempted each question and results have been displayed, the faculty will provide information as to why a particular answer is correct and the distracters are wrong. The extent of discussion for each question will depend on the class performance on each question. Approximately 25-30 questions on designated topics will be attempted during each scheduled session.
DPHM 5602 - Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dental Practice
This course will provide the student with a working understanding of pharmacology and pharmaco-therapeutics as applied to dental practice. Further, this course includes the pharmacology of drugs that affect the central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system and endocrine function. Students will become familiar with drugs used in dental practice and the drugs that the patients may be taking for medical conditions.
This course is a seminar review and an update of pharmacologic topics. A National Board examination package has been assembled from the last 7 released exams. The questions are grouped according to topics and questions are identified by year. At each session, students will register their responses to selected questions (either exact or modifications of those which have appeared on the National Board Examinations) utilizing a computerized program. The program allows instantaneous display of percentile distribution of answers to each question and thereby class performance on each question. After students have attempted each question and results have been displayed, the faculty will provide information as to why a particular answer is correct and the distracters are wrong. The extent of discussion for each question will depend on the class performance on each question. Approximately 25-30 questions on designated topics will be attempted during each scheduled session.
Prerequisite: Medical Course in Pharmacology
Expand knowledge and understanding of selected areas of pharmacology and therapeutics. Students may elect to study in-depth a specific area in Pharmacology and Toxicology under the guidance of one or more faculty members most familiar with that specific area.
Prerequisite: Approval by faculty member with whom research will be done
Opportunity to participate in research programs being conducted by members of the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Prerequisites: Medical Course in Pharmacology
Goals: Expand knowledge and understanding of toxins’ actions and their clinical management. Students will participate in discussion and review of several aspects of toxicology including heavy metals, gaseous poisons, industrial and agricultural chemicals, poisonous plants and venoms. Emphasis is on human toxicology and includes selected reports to be presented by enrollees.
Prerequisites: Medical Course in Pharmacology.
Better understanding of the actions and clinical uses of important classes or drugs and modes of drug delivery, allow students to reflect on and solve problems
encountered with clinical therapeutics.
Prerequisite: Medical Course in Pharmacology.
Students will participate in discussions and review of aspects of toxicology including heavy metal, gaseous poisons, industrial and agricultural chemicals, poisonous plans and venoms. Emphasis on human toxicology and includes selected reports to be presented by enrollees.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 5
Repeat Status: No
College Restrictions: Medical College of Georgia Major Restrictions: Medicine Level Restrictions: Professional Semester
PHRM 5014 - Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Rotation
The course goals are a better understanding of the actions and clinical uses of common classes of drugs and modes of drug delivery in an intensive care unit. The course allows students to reflect on and solve problems encountered with clinical therapeutics. Students will also develop an evidence based treatment and monitoring plan for diseases of critical illness.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 40
Repeat Status: No
College Restrictions: Medical College of Georgia Level Restrictions: Professional Semester
This elective will provide a better understanding of the actions and clinical uses of common classes of drugs and modes of drug delivery in an intensive care unit. Allow students to reflect on and solve problems encountered with clinical therapeutics. Develop an evidence-based treatment and monitoring plan for diseases of critical illness.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 5 Lecture Hours: 4 Other Contact Hours: 36
Repeat Status: No Repeat Limit: 0
Campus Restrictions: Albany Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Medicine
Prerequisites: Completion of SGS Core Curriculum.
Current concepts and trends in pharmacological science and research. Covers all areas of pharmacology.
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
This is the first part of a two semester comprehensive course of study on the actions and uses of drug agents for treatment and prevention of disease. The focus of this advanced graduate course of on state-of-the-art pharmacological approaches to therapeutics. Basic principles of drug action (e.g. receptor therapy, pharmacokinetics) will be discussed. Covered in depth will be how pharmacological agents can be used to prevent and/or treat pathophysiological alterations in a number of organs and systems. Principles of cellular signal transduction will be taught with an emphasis on the molecular basis of current therapeutics principles.
This is the second part of a two semester comprehensive course of study on the actions and uses of drug agents for treatment and prevention of disease. This part of the course builds on the basic pharmacological principles covered in part 1 of the course and focuses on cardiovascular, infectious diseases, endocrine diseases and therapeutics. Pharmacological agents used to prevent and/or treat pathophysiological alterations in a number of organs and systems will be emphasized in both clinical and research applications. Mechanisms of cellular signal transduction, adverse effects, critical thinking will also be addressed.
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
This course requires permanent assignment to a specific lab with a faculty advisor and a defined research project. The student works under the mentorship of his/her faculty thesis advisor to define, develop, and carry out the basic study of a research problem of interest to both student and advisor. This course is designed to develop the experience, understanding, and skills to conduct and assess original, independent research in biomedical science. This course is typically taken more than one time and culminates in the final semester in the preparation and defense of a MS thesis.
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
Prerequisites: Admission in a graduate program.
The student works with individual faculty members on a specific investigative research problem. This provides an introduction to analytical techniques and the scientific method in action.
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Major Restrictions: Pharmacology Program Restrictions: DPHIL_PHAR-Pharmacology Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
The student works closely with his/her major advisor on an in-depth study of a research problem of interest to both student and advisor. This course culminates in the preparation of a PhD dissertation. Permanent assignment to a specific lab with a major advisor and a defined research project.
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Credit Hours: 1 TO 12 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 40 Other Contact Hours: 0
Repeat Status: Yes Repeat Limit: 99
College Restrictions: The Graduate School Major Restrictions: Pharmacology Program Restrictions: DPHIL_PHAR-Pharmacology Campus Restrictions: Main campus Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Class Restrictions: Graduate-Semester Degree Restrictions: Doctor of Philosophy
This course introduces students to the methods by which philosophers raise questions and problems, provides answers and solutions, and thereby generate knowledge. It also introduces students to some of the key content areas of philosophy, which include the nature of reality, knowledge, consciousness, and the good.
This course introduces students to the methods by which philosophers raise questions and problems, provides answers and solutions, and thereby generate knowledge. It also introduces students to some of the key content areas of philosophy, which include the nature of reality, knowledge, consciousness, and the good. This is an Honors Course.
This course introduces students to the basics of critical thinking, which is defined as the systematic evaluation and formulation of claims by rational standards. As such, it develops tools for exploring both world and self and for defense against error. The course covers a wide variety of forms of reasoning: formal and informal, deductive and inductive, and scientific and moral.
This course introduces students to the basics of critical thinking, which is defined as the systematic evaluation and formulation of claims by rational standards. As such, it develops tools for exploring both world and self and for defense against error. The course covers a wide variety of forms of reasoning: formal and informal, deductive and inductive, and scientific and moral. This is an Honors Course.
The course offers a philosophical account of the moral relationship between human beings and their natural environment with attention to animal interests and rights as well as our responsibilities to species and ecosystems. The course also investigates such environmental theories as deep ecology, social ecology and ecofeminism which attempt to explain the origins of environmental degradation. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
The course examines the major ethical theories and philosophers as represented in the virtue-ethics, utilitarian and deontological ethical traditions. The focus of the course will be on a critical examination of the rational basis of our moral duties and will raise questions about the status of moral beliefs and judgments. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
A critical, analytic examiniation of contemporary ethical issues such as abortion, captial punishment , torture, and penalties for hate speech. Students will learn how to assess the pros and cons of an ethical position, how to develop an ethical argument in support of a position, and how to critically evaluate an opposing point of view. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of the instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
This course investigates the philosophical basis of the values and goals of medicine. Ethical concepts, principles, and theories are applied to an analysis of clinical case studies; the ethical and philosophical significance of the experience of illness and suffering are considered; the course also examines contemporary bioethical issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Prequisite(s): Junior or senior semester, or permission of the instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
A critical inquiry into the questions of the human condition and the realms of experience that generate the framework for thinking and acting, such as myth/religion, knowledge, art, science and the ethical/political. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
A critical examination of ancient Greek political philosophy in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and their expressions of fundamental theoretical and practical approaches to political experiences of regime and citizenship. Their contemporary relevance will be scrutinized. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
In its search for meaning rather than truth, existential philosophy understands the human condition as individual choice in the pursuit of self-knowledge. Its discursive language includes vocabularies on love, belief, the other, responsibility, suffering, anxiety, despair, and death. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
To acquaint students with fundamental texts in philosophy. This course undertakes a critical reading of the work of one or two philosophers alternating ancient with modern in order to examine the meaning, language, and philosophical value of these texts. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Repeat Status: Yes Repeat Limit: 99
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester
The development of modern political ideas underlying democratic theory and liberalism as found in the works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Mill. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Grade Mode: Normal, Audit
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3
Repeat Status: No
Class Restrictions: Junior-Semester, Senior-Semester