Course Descriptions

PHIL-1 Critical Thinking
(3 units lecture) Grade Only CSU and UC Critical thinking provides specific techniques and tools whereby we can avoid basic errors in our own thinking and detect them in the thought of others. In this course, students will be given the opportunity to learn these techniques and apply them to a wide range of human interests. Prerequisite: ENGL-1A

PHIL-10 Introduction to Philosophy
(3 units lecture) Grade Only CSU and UC This course examines the basic questions that have always faced human kind: Does God exist? What is right/good? Does life have meaning? PHIL-10 will study the answers ancient and modern philosophers provided to these questions. Emphasis is on the application of these to the student’s life. (CAN PHIL2)

PHIL-12 Logic
(3 units lecture) Grade Only CSU and UC A study of arguments, the uses of deductive and inductive reasoning, and an analysis of the role of logic in contemporary society. Prerequisite: ENGL-1A Recommended: MATH-105/106 (CAN PHIL6)

PHIL-15 Religions of the World
(3 units lecture) Grade Only CSU and UC This class takes the position that to understand the people of the world necessitates the study of their religion. This class surveys the origins of religion and its major expressions such as Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and others.

PHIL-20 Ethics
(3 units lecture) CR/NC option CSU and UC This course is an examination of morality. The course focuses on current issues and events and examines how we respond to moral issues and problems both as individuals and as a society. (CAN PHIL4)