Required of all cooperative education students. Students must register for this course prior to commencing each work period. Nonmajor graduate credit. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6 credits. Theoretical and normative issues in ethics, aesthetics, religious thought, or political philosophy.
Topics vary each time offered.
Nonmajor graduate credit. Philosophy of Technology. Conditions under which technological innovations contribute to human emancipation, relationship of technology and democracy, utility and limits of technical rationality, and problems of ensuring that benefits of technological advance are communally shared. Issues discussed with reference to contemporary developments in microelectronics, technology transfer to the Third World, etc. Nonmajor graduate credit.