Course may be repeated for credit. Qualified students work on research projects of their choice under the supervision of individual instructors. Work must address significant topics and lead to a substantial honors essay. Course may be repeated for credit. Close study of selected topics and figures in 20th-Century European philosophy, in particular the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and its dissemination in movements such as existentialism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction.
Topics vary from year to year.
Also offered as PHIL 508. Required course for all graduate language teaching assistants. 3.00 Fall 00 Practical and theoretical considerations of foreign language teaching methodologies, instructional planning and evaluation, textbook evaluation and use, testing methods and design, course planning, etc. Peer instruction observations required. Graduate research and dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.