Getting InPhilosophy and Religious Studies
Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of reality, knowledge, and values based on logical reasoning. The Religious Studies discipline focuses on the analysis and comparison of religious traditions using methods from a variety of disciplines. Students take courses in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department to prepare for a major or to fulfill general education requirements in humanities or the social sciences.
Contact Information
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Department Chair: Louisa Moon Dean: Dana Smith |
Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies Office: Building OC3100, 760.795.6871 |
Full-Time Faculty
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Isabel Luengo Louisa Moon |
Courses
PHIL 100: Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
Use of logic in science and practical life: fallacies, language, hypotheses, probability, experimentation. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, the deductive, and inductive processes.
PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
Introduction to philosophical inquiry with emphasis on problems of knowledge and reality through analysis of classical and contemporary works on such issues as freedom, human nature, and God. Each student is encouraged to think independently and formulate his/her own tentative conclusions.
PHIL 102: Contemporary Moral Problems
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
An inquiry into the nature of morality as it applies to a variety of personal and social issues through the reading and analysis of classical and contemporary works.
PHIL 105: Asian Philosophy and Religion
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with credit in ASIA 105.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
An interdisciplinary survey of the philosophical and religious thought of South and East Asia and its application in theory and practice in traditional Asian societies.
PHIL 122: World Religions
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
Understanding of a people through their religion. Offers an enlargement of understanding of the world's major faiths, how their many forms came to be, how they differ, what their central tenets are, and what they basically have in common.
PHIL 221: Philosophy of Religion
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
Investigation of religion. Reasons for and against various fundamental religious beliefs. Considers religious phenomena of many kinds in the interest of understanding and clarifying what persons intend to be and do when they act religiously. Philosophy of Religion takes nothing for granted; it takes the liberty of calling anything religious into question. It aims to bring religious beliefs and assumptions out into the open, to subject them to scrutiny and to arrive at a rational assessment for religious affirmation.
PHIL 292: Internship Studies
Units: 0.5-3
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit.
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance.
PHIL 296: Topics in Philosophy
Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 1 hour.
Lecture 2 hours.
Lecture 3 hours. (1509.00)
This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Philosophy that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule.
PHIL 298: Directed Study in Philosophy
Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor and department chair approval and successful completion of 12 units of college work with at least a 3.0 grade-point average.
Repeatability Rule: May be taken for a total of 3 units.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Laboratory 3 hours
Laboratory 6 hours
Laboratory 9 hours. (1509.00)
This course allows students to pursue a special area of interest in order to achieve specific goals beyond the scope of existing courses within the discipline. Students work independently and interact directly with an instructor on an individual basis and as prescribed by the Directed Study Agreement.
