In this course, we will strike a balance between discussing a variety of philosophical topics, thinking about what philosophy is and how best to practice it, and putting our theoretical work to practice by doing philosophy with kids in a school together. We'll begin the course by focusing on metaphilosophical and pedagogical readings, putting together a picture of what it is we're doing when we do philosophy and how we can do that best with children. Then we'll take that picture and put it to work, going into an elementary school together to do philosophy with children.

An Honors introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

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This course will cover questions about the place of mind in a world of matter; the nature of free will, and whether it is so much as possible; a variety of questions about knowledge, including self-knowledge; and a number of moral questions, including questions about our responsibility to others less fortunate than ourselves. Readings will be primarily from contemporary philosophers. (Gen.Ed. AL)

We will read and discuss classic writings from the history of analytic philosophy. Topics covered include philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Authors include Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Carnap, Quine, Kripke, and Lewis.

This course explores the family as a gendered social construction. It considers how the family reflects and reproduces gender roles that are woven into the social norms of our society.

This course explores the migration and settlement of Jews within Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the period of expulsions and forced conversion to Christianity in Europe (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) to the present day. Special attention will be given to identity; social and religious institutions; regional variations; poverty; intergroup relations; the impact of the slave trade and slave societies; immigration waves; gendered experiences; and the shift from a regime based on legal restrictions and privileges to modern societies based on inalienable rights. (Gen. Ed. HS, DG)