Landscape Studies is a burgeoning field at Smith College and is the first program of its kind at a liberal arts college in this country. This introductory course will be a chronological and thematic exploration of the issues that define the evolving field of landscape studies and the study of the built environment. How have landscape architects, horticulturists, engineers, and urban, regional, and environmental planners reshaped the spaces in which we live? What stewardship is needed for us to be both inspired and sustained by the world around us?

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

Formal logic and its application to the evaluation of everyday arguments, the abstract properties of logical systems, the implications of inconsistency. Examples drawn from law, philosophy, economics, literary criticism, political theory, commercials, mathematics, psychology, computer science, off-topic debating, and the popular press. Deduction and induction, logical symbolism and operations, paradoxes, and puzzles. May not be taken for credit with PHI 202.

This will ordinarily be an enriched version of the 300-level courses currently offered.