Individual study courses offer learning opportunities in areas or subjects not covered by regular courses. Courses numbered 500 and above are for graduate students in the M.A.L.S. program. With the permission of the Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies and the course instructor, advanced undergraduates may take selected graduate courses for undergraduate credit. No course may be taken for credit which is a prerequisite for, or introductory to, a course already completed successfully. A current prerequisite list is published in the Schedule of Courses each semester.
Students are responsible for checking their courses against the list before registering.
Through a close reading of Plato's Republic, supplemented by accompanying readings, small tutorial groups will read, write, and talk about specific issues that interest them. Basic principles of analytical reasoning and the appraisal of arguments. Among the topics covered are symbolic language, translation, and methods of formal proof including propositional calculus and first order predicate calculus. Selected works by such modern philosophers as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Berkeley. The status and justification of moral judgments, and the reasons behind disagreements in moral issues.