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The World in 2050 — APA2280.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
What do you think the world will look like circa 2050? Futurists predict computers that host digital uploads of our brains, water crises, recycling breakthroughs, flying cars, shapeshifting skyscrapers, regenerating body parts, mass extinctions and experimental de-extinctions. To navigate the vastness of possible futures--from utopian to dystopian--the class begins with a leap
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4114.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation. You will engage in a detailed reading of two classical moral theories and study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write two essays and present a draft of your final essay
Society Culture and Thought

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4129.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation. You will engage in a detailed reading of several moral theories and study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write two essays and present a draft of your final essay to the
Society Culture and Thought

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4129.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation. You will engage in a detailed reading of two classical moral theories and study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write two essays and present a draft of your final

Philosophy

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4114.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation from a philosophical perspective. You will engage in a detailed reading of several major moral theories. In addition you will study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write
Society Culture and Thought

Theories and Histories of Capitalism — PEC4141.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course traces the intellectual history of political economic thinking about capitalism. We will be attentive to the different ideological lenses through which capitalism is perceived and discussed. The course will include an in-depth examination of classical liberal theory and its critique – key figures like John Locke, Adam
Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Knowledge — PHI2104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
What does it mean to know something? Can we know anything? Can you know whether you know?  How do you distinguish knowledge from mere belief? What factors affect what we believe?  In this course, we’re going to look at knowledge from both a philosophical and psychological perspective. Philosophically, when is it rational to believe?  Psychologically, what forces
Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Psychotherapy — Canceled

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This course addresses the history of the “talking cure” with a systematic look at the links between psychological theory and therapeutic technique. The practice of psychoanalysis and analytic therapy is investigated through a reading of some of Freud’s papers on technique. The historical development of psychotherapy, including later developments in analysis, behavior therapy,
Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Psychotherapy — PSY4108.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This course addresses the history of the “talking cure” with a systematic look at the links between psychological theory and therapeutic technique. The practice of psychoanalysis and analytic therapy is investigated through a reading of some of Freud’s papers on technique. The historical development of psychotherapy, including later developments in analysis, behavior therapy,
Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Psychotherapy — PSY4108.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This course addresses the history of the “talking cure” with a systematic look at the links between psychological theory and therapeutic technique. The practice of psychoanalysis and analytic therapy is investigated through a reading of some of Freud’s papers on technique. The historical development of psychotherapy, including later developments in analysis, behavior therapy,
Society Culture and Thought

Thinking Lab — PSY2115.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz
Credits: 2
Presents a state-of-the-art introduction to the design and implementation of experiments in cognitive psychology as performed behaviorally and on computers. Experiments are performed in the areas of perception, learning, memory, and decision-making. Students will also design and carry out independent research projects and learn to write research reports conforming to APA
Society Culture and Thought Science Mathematics and Computing

Thinking Like A Greek — PHI2122.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean Greeks of the 4th-6th c. BCE powerfully shaped the political, cultural, and intellectual worlds we inhabit today. The Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, drama, spectator sports, and astronomy, physics, biology, musical theory, history, and philosophy as areas of study. Various Greek thinkers championed free inquiry, global citizenship, radical
Society Culture and Thought

Thinking Like A Greek — PHI2122.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean Greeks of the 4th-6th c. BCE powerfully shaped the political, cultural, and intellectual worlds we inhabit today. The Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, drama, spectator sports, and astronomy, physics, biology, musical theory, history, and philosophy as areas of study. Various Greek thinkers championed free inquiry, global citizenship, radical
Society Culture and Thought

Thinking Like A Greek — PHI2122.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean Greeks of the 4th-6th c. BCE powerfully shaped the political, cultural, and intellectual worlds we inhabit today. The Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, drama, spectator sports, and astronomy, physics, biology, musical theory, history, and philosophy as areas of study. Various Greek thinkers championed free inquiry, global citizenship, radical
Society Culture and Thought

Third Cinema — FV2316.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is a seminar focusing on films that were made by filmmakers and collectives which saw themselves as inaugurating a new kind of filmmaking modeled neither on the commercial American filmmaking, nor on the European “Auteur” Cinema, instead crafting a third position, a cinema that was implicated in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles of the time. These

Media Studies Film and Video

THIS, THAT and the OTHER: An Introduction to Linguistic Referring — LIN2105.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
How do we, as users of language, guide others to successfully follow our attention and intention in referring to elements of shared physical, social and discursive worlds? How do we, as consumers of language, integrate linguistic signals with available context to successfully interpret these acts of reference? In this class, we will draw on data from a wide range of
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Total Theory — HIS4215.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Whether we love “theory” or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn’t really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It’d be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism
Society Culture and Thought

Total Theory — SCT4111.01) (new course code as of 11/2/2021

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Whether we love “theory” or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn’t really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It’d be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism
Society Culture and Thought