Courses

Important dates to keep in mind for Spring 2023:

Census and Last day to apply for Spring 2023 Graduation is Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Last day to withdraw from a class with a Late Withdraw Petition form is Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Spring 2023 Graduation is Saturday, May 13, 2023

Interested in the topics of ...

MIND and CONSCIOUSNESS and HAPPINESS

PHIL 4300 Philosophy of Mind or PHIL 3030 Philosophies of the Good Life and Happiness

Or maybe LEARNING and KNOWLEDGE

PHIL 3360 Epistemology

Perhaps the INTERPRETATION, ARTS, or LITERATURE

PHIL 4730 Philosophy and Literature or PHIL 5220 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Questions about TIME and REALITY

PHIL 3350 Metaphysics

Even on RACE, SEX, or GENDER

PHIL 3500 Ideology Culture: Racism and Sexism or PHIL 4500 Feminist Philosophy

What about GOD and RELIGION

PHIL 4600 Philosophy of Religion

Or both POLITICS and JUSTICE

PHIL 3200 Social and Political Philosophy

Are you more SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY minded?

PHIL 3340 Investigating Nature: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

PHIL 4350 Philosophy of Science

PHIL 4920 Philosophy of Media and Technology

Perhaps even more BUSINESS minded?

PHIL 3250 Business Ethics

These are just some examples of the many areas philosophy takes on! Current class offerings are on the left, but take a look at our CATALOG to see the full picture!

In this course we focus on questions driving the discipline by exploring theories of reality and the nature and limits of knowledge. To be effective in resolving societal issues, like increasing happiness, requires understanding these complex and essential fields.

In this course, we consider ethical problems and forms of ethical reasoning within the larger context of social and political philosophy. Attention is given to specific ongoing problems, including poverty, famine, abortion, punishment, animal rights, or environmental sustainability amongst others.

Terms offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-AH3

Introductory course developing skills in argumentation, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning. Covers a wide array of topics including rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem-solving, and probabilistic reasoning, these analytical and critical thinking skills are tested on LSAT and MCAT. In this course, we discuss issues central to advancement in the sciences, and towards knowledge in general. In the course, you will learn valuable skills for employers.

This course explores the resurgence of philosophy during and after the 16th century. The Middle Ages were dominated by church dogma and in this course, we will investigate the thought of the great minds that brought philosophy back to life after this period. 

This course examines basic issues in social and political philosophy, including justice, freedom, individuality, power and community. Cross-listed with PHIL 5200. Term offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits.

This course explores ways ideology functions within culture. Specific attention is given to how ideology creates and maintains racist and sexist patterns of thought and behavior. By analyzing the methods and sources of ideological forces we explore different thinkers claims about if and how eliminating racist and sexist thinking is possible as an individual or as a collective society.

Examine one of the most influential movements in recent European thought, beginning with existentialism's 19th century roots, and continuing to the existentialist philosophers of the 20th century.

What might Frankenstein or Offred, Richard Sackler or Jack Kevorkian, the Supreme Court or the Prison system, Westworld or Jurassic Park, all have in common?

If you take this class, you will discover that they are among the many examples of the problem of biopower: the social, political, and philosophical structures that define, organize and control bodily life. In our class, we will study a range of classical and contemporary ethical theories that orbit this issue, discussing such topics as health care, medical research and experimentation, human and non-human life, the natural environment, biopolitics, and perhaps even whether androids dream of electric sheep. 

Examine Latin American Philosophy by exploring its indigenous roots, its recurring themes of struggle against colonial domination, and the way this tradition works with and against European and Anglo-American philosophical ideas

This course examines the condition of coloniality, white supremacy and heteronormativity in the formation of the philosophical canon. We take seriously the ‘Decolonial Turn’ as a significant shift in knowledge production, and problematize the systemic exclusion of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Indigenous peoples in the Eurocentric construction of philosophy as a discipline. Through decolonial thinking and practice, we explore ways to do philosophy otherwise. 

Strongly Recommended: PHIL 3002 or 3022, a minimum grade of "C" in each previous philosophy course. If the student does not have this coursework, consulting with the instructor prior to registration is strongly recommended. Repeatable. Max hours: 15 Credits.

A philosophical examination of interrelationships between contemporary media, technology, and their impacts upon character of contemporary life and values. Topics may include ethics, epistemology, democracy, advertising, media literacy and criticism.