Course Details
Course Code: PHIL101 Course ID: 3532 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Undergraduate
This course is intended to equip the student with a baseline understanding of issues and concepts that compose the Western philosophic enterprise, and to serve as a point of departure for their further studies in Philosophy.
Course Schedule
Registration Dates | Course Dates | Start Month | Session | Weeks |
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03/29/2022 - 09/02/2022 | 09/05/2022 - 10/30/2022 | September | Summer 2022 Session D | 8 Week session |
04/26/2022 - 09/30/2022 | 10/03/2022 - 11/27/2022 | October | Fall 2022 Session B | 8 Week session |
05/21/2022 - 11/04/2022 | 11/07/2022 - 01/01/2023 | November | Fall 2022 Session I | 8 Week session |
06/28/2022 - 12/02/2022 | 12/05/2022 - 01/29/2023 | December | Fall 2022 Session D | 8 Week session |
07/25/2022 - 12/30/2022 | 01/02/2023 - 02/26/2023 | January | Winter 2023 Session B | 8 Week session |
08/29/2022 - 02/03/2023 | 02/06/2023 - 04/02/2023 | February | Winter 2023 Session I | 8 Week session |
Current Syllabi
After successfully completing this course students will be able to:
CO1: Identify historical beginnings of philosophy and contemporary positions concerning the nature of knowledge and reality;
CO2: Examine the relevance of language and logic to problems of knowledge and reality;
CO3: Distinguish the basic concepts of moral and political philosophy;
CO4: Evaluate arguments for and against the existence of God
CO5: Evaluate various approaches to the mind-body problem;
CO6:Evaluate various approaches to the problem of free will.
Name | Grade % |
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Forums | 50.00 % |
Week 1 Forum - Introduction | 5.44 % |
Week 1 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 2 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 3 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 4 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 5 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 6 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 7 Forum | 5.44 % |
Week 8 Forum | 5.44 % |
Extra Credit | 1.09 % |
Philosophical Essay Outline | 20.00 % |
Week 4 - Philosophical Essay Outline | 20.00 % |
Philosophical Essay | 30.00 % |
Week 7 - Philosophical Essay | 30.00 % |
After successfully completing this course students will be able to:
CO1: Identify historical beginnings of philosophy and contemporary positions concerning the nature of knowledge and reality;
CO2: Examine the relevance of language and logic to problems of knowledge and reality;
CO3: Distinguish the basic concepts of moral and political philosophy;
CO4: Evaluate arguments for and against the existence of God
CO5: Evaluate various approaches to the mind-body problem;
CO6:Evaluate various approaches to the problem of free will.
Book Title: | Various resources from the APUS Library & the Open Web are used. Please visit http://apus.libguides.com/er.php to locate the course eReserve. |
ISBN: | ERESERVE NOTE |