TERM 1
HUMA 101: Intro to Western Civilization:: How have our ideas about ourselves and the world been influenced by previous ideas and events? What values have shaped our culture and civilization in the past, and which continue to do so today? This course chronologically examines the history of humanity of Western civilization through the perspective of period writers and thinkers. By the end of this course students should be able to articulate the concepts and ideas central to the formation of the intellectual history that is the basis of Western civilization.
PHIL 207 Feminist Philosophy: Issues & Contexts: What is feminist philosophy? How can we recognize the contexts in which oppression appears? What are the wrongs or harms of oppressive contexts? This course aims to introduce students to feminist philosophy through exploring contexts of oppression with the aim of understanding of how oppression is manifest in moral, social, and political contemporary contexts. By the end of this course, students should be able to explain what oppression is; explain oppressive contexts within issues such as prostitution, pornography, violence, abortion, AIDS, employment, human trafficking, and so forth; and articulate key feminist debates in these areas.
PHIL 305 Ethical Theory I: This course introduces students to core ethical issues such as animal rights, abortion, assisted reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, pornography, the environment, multiculturalism, aboriginal rights, and ethics and the use of violence. Students will approach such issues from the perspective of different moral theories so as to develop a broad understanding of the main moral issues and concerns such topics raise.
TERM 2
Phil 225 Biomedical Ethics: What are key moral issues arising within the Canadian health care context? This course covers those key issues, such as informed consent, euthanasia, genetic testing, and reproductive technologies. Students are expected to approach such issues within the framework for ethical decisionmaking presented within class, including moral theories such as Kantianism and Utilitarianism, and moral analysis of issues such as trust, competency, responsibility, and justice.
Phil 307 Ethical Theory II: This course aims to broaden and illuminate philosophical perspectives in moral theory by looking at the work of contemporary philosophers as they have recognizably shifted the key issues and concerns of moral theory. In effect, these philosophers have shifted the moral compass. In what directions does the moral compass now point? Is political theory included in the moral compass? How might our lives, as moral agents, be guided by this moral compass?
Phil 399: Feminist Philosophy: Theory: What is oppression? How can we legitimately analyze and theorize about oppression that involves the experiences of others? This course explores these questions through focusing on theory concerning women’s oppression, understood from a multitude of perspectives such as culture, race, religion, ability; and through the lens of viewing feminism as about equality, difference, or dominance.