Springfield was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in America and a manufacturing powerhouse into the 1960s when its major industries left for lower cost locations and the city?s economy collapsed. After decades of economic challenges and demographic changes that made Springfield a ?majority minority? city, significant projects are under development including a casino, union station, and subway manufacturing by a Chinese company, Changchun Railway, in addition to new community-based development.

Critical study of recent work in moral philosophy. May include utilitarian, Kantian, or other normative theories, as well as naturalistic, nonnaturalistic, or emotivist theories in metaethics.

This course exposes undergraduate students to the complex systems that connect schools and juvenile and adult prisons, with a particular emphasis on the links between diversity and incarceration.

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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Introduction to contemporary methods in philosophical research and writing.

Elementary metamathematics. Completeness and Lowenhein-Skolem theorems. Elementary number theory. Godel's incompleteness theorems. Prerequisite for undergraduates: PHIL 310, or consent of the instructor.

Students in WebGIS will explore web-based applications in geographic information science. This course will focus on hands-on practice using and building web-based mapping and analysis platforms, including Google Maps, ArcGIS Online, Leaflet, and Open Street Map. Along with conceptual discussion of how the internet, web servers and cloud-based GIS services function, students will create and host web services relevant to their coursework, research, or professional goals.

Survey of social, political and cultural change in the Middle East from the rise of the Ottoman Empire around 1300 to the present. Topics include the impact on the Middle East of the shift in world trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic; social, political, and cultural change; Ottoman and European relations; imperialism and revolution; World War I and the peace settlement; state formation; and the rise of nationalism and religious fundamentalism. (Gen.Ed. HS, G)