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Courses

 

Music
  

  • MUS 345 - Music Theatre Workshop

    A laboratory workshop approach to opera designed to prepare advanced students in both the vocal and theatrical aspects of operatic production.

    Prerequisite: THT 230 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 346 - Applied Composition Lessons

    Composition Lessons are available to music majors and minors. During lessons students will: 1) Survey the repertoire. 2) Explore common techniques and practices in music composition. 3) study orchestration and arranging. 4) Demonstrate the ability to complete a piece over the course of the semester and have it performed in a student recital.

    Note: Variable credit one to two hours, may be repeated for a total of eight credits.
    Prerequisite: MUS 100; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
  

  • MUS 351 - Violin, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 352 - Viola, Individual Instruction

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 353 - Cello, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 354 - Double Bass, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 361 - Flute, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 362 - Single Reeds, Individual Instruction

    Private instruction in clarinet or saxophone.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 363 - Double Reeds, Individual Instruction

    Private instruction in oboe or bassoon.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 371 - Trumpet, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 372 - French Horn, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 373 - Trombone, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 374 - Baritone or Tuba, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 381 - Percussion, Individual Instruction

    This course will be offered through a semester of studio demonstration lessons. Students will study the techniques needed for performance on percussion instruments and perform in a laboratory group to further utilize these techniques.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 382 - Recording Technology I

    The art of multitrack music recording and production is introduced. Fundamentals of sound, signals and studio acoustics are established. Basic audio principles, modern audio production equipment, methods, practices, procedures, and the attitudes necessary to work effectively in a project recording studio are mastered. Introduction to digital recording systems and theory, with recording to a Digital Audio Workstation (Pro Tools) is featured.

    Prerequisite: MUS 206 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 383 - Recording Technology II

    Application and continuing refinement of basic audio production competencies, with an emphasis on the creation of master recordings. Topics include advanced digital recording and editing, signal processing, mixing, and the role of the recording engineer and producer in professional audio. Development of critical listening skills is a featured part of this course. Mastery of recording with a Digital Audio Workstation (Pro Tools) is achieved.

    Prerequisite: MUS 382
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 386 - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Individual Instruction

    Advanced instruction for students who have had previous training. Styles taught include folk, classical, or jazz.

    Prerequisite: MUS 285 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 390 - African Music in the Americas

    This course introduces students to the music of West Africa, and then studies how those musical characteristics were transplanted to Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, among others. The class also examines cultural, social and anthropological practices in West Africa, Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean islands and the United States.

    Note: Advisement recommendation: Basic music knowledge
    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 391 - Music in Italy: Rome, Florence and Venice

    This course explores the Italian music, architecture, history, and art of Rome, Florence, and Venice. We will study selected music compositions using recordings, and get a first look at what we’ll see in person through photographs.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 397 - The Business of Music

    An overview of the music profession, industry and business, including the recording industry, artist management and promotion, copyright laws, and the use of music in broadcasting and film.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 399 - Independent Study

    An in-depth study for students with a particular interest or need.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 to 3
  

  • MUS 403 - Intermediate Conducting

    Practice and Theory of conducting at the intermediate level. Conducting experience with College ensembles.

    Prerequisite: One year of music theory and MUS 303.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 413 - Beethoven

    A study of the life and times of Beethoven, with examination of representative works from all fields of his creative activity and the place of these works in the history of the arts.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 431 - Piano, Individual Instruction

    Advanced concepts of musicianship and technique, based on the rate of achievement for each. Also concepts in ensemble musicianship involving keyboard, vocal and instrumental performance.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 435 - Piano Pedagogy

    A study of the techniques of teaching piano,  including the fundamentals of piano playing, traditional and contemporary teaching materials,  famous pedagogues and in-class experience.

    Prerequisite: MUS 231 or 431 and MUS 330, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 441 - Voice, Individual Instruction

    Advanced study of vocal techniques, directly related to performance of standard repertory.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 446 - Applied Composition Lessons (Upper Division)

    During lessons students will: 1) Survey the work of composers of recent history across genres. 2) Explore common techniques and practices in music composition. 3) Learn the physical and mechanical limitations and idioms of instruments in our common repertoire by studying orchestration and arranging. 4) Demonstrate the ability to complete a piece over the course of the semester.

    Note: Variable credit one to two hours, repeatable for a total of eight credits.
    Prerequisite: MUS 100 and upper division standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
  

  • MUS 451 - Violin, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 452 - Viola, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 453 - Cello, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 454 - Double Bass, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 461 - Flute, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 462 - Single Reeds, Individual Instruction

    Private instruction in clarinet or saxophone.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 463 - Double Reeds, Individual Instruction

    Private instruction in oboe or bassoon.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 471 - Trumpet, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 472 - French Horn, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 473 - Trombone, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 474 - Baritone or Tuba, Individual Instruction

    Applied music instruction is available to qualified students. For further information, contact the Music Department Office.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 481 - Percussion, Individual Instruction

    This course will be offered through a semester of studio demonstration lessons. Students will study the techniques needed for performance on percussion instruments and perform in a laboratory group to further utilize these techniques.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 482 - Recording Technology III

    Application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of advanced audio production techniques and practices, with an emphasis on the creation of industry-standard master recordings.  Topics include advanced digital recording and editing, signal processing, mixing, mastering, and the role of the recording engineer and producer in professional audio.  High-level critical listening skills, and mastery of complex mixing techniques are achieved.

    Prerequisite: MUS 383
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 483 - Recording Technology IV

    The culmination of a four-course sequence in audio recording and production, this course will provide the very highest-level of on-campus audio production and recording experiences for the advanced music production student. All previous student audio recording and production competencies relating to high-level recording will be utilized as students complete an album worth of recordings aligned with industry standards for quality. All students will have their work debuted on a Spring Quest Day Recital dedicated to showcasing student achievement. Students will individually introduce their work at the recital, and will field questions from the audience in discussion of their work. Mastery of complex production techniques will be achieved as students assume the role of high-level music producers.

    Prerequisite: MUS 482.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • MUS 486 - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Individual Instruction

    Advanced instruction for students who have had previous training. Styles taught include folk, classical, or jazz.

    Prerequisite: MUS 285 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1 or 2
  

  • MUS 488 - Efficient Body Use in the Performing Arts

    Class and private instruction in relaxation techniques (based on the Alexander Technique) for efficient use of the body for performance in music, theatre, or dance.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 0 - 3
  

  • MUS 490 - Wind Ensemble

    This ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. This project-based course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the musical literature of the concert band and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature.

    Note: Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester and the ability to sing or play an instrument and read music are required.  May be repeated for credit.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 491 - College/Community Orchestra

    This ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. This project-based course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the musical literature of the standard orchestra and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature.

    Note: Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester and the ability to sing or play an instrument and read music are required.  May be repeated for credit.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 492 - College Choir

    This ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. This project-based course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the musical literature of the mixed chorus and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature.

    Note: Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester and the ability to sing or play an instrument and read music are required.  May be repeated for credit.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 493 - Oswego State Jazz Ensemble

    This jazz ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. The project-based course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the musical literature of the instrumental jazz ensemble and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Ability to play an instrument and read music required. Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester for placement.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 494 - Oswego State Singers

    This select vocal ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. It is a project-based course designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the jazz, popular and classical musical literature for chamber choir and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature.

    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Ability to play an instrument and read music required. Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester for placement.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 495 - Ensemble

    Chamber groups-string, woodwind (including flute and recorder consort), brass, percussion, jazz, guitar, vocal, and opera ensembles.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 496 - Senior Seminar/Capstone Experience

    Preparation and planning for the Capstone Project in the major. The project may involve a senior recital, preparation and presentation of a portfolio or internship project. This culminating experience is an opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the discipline at an intense level during the senior year.

    Prerequisite: Senior standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 2
  

  • MUS 497 - Oswego Festival Chorus

    This large choral group is open to all students, regardless of major, as well as to the greater Oswego community. It is a project-based course designed to provide an opportunity for the participants to become acquainted with standard oratorio and choral/orchestral masterworks and to participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 0 or 1
  

  • MUS 498 - Music Internship

    A course designed for those who wish to participate in a semester EXCEL placement in the field of music. Students will work in a position in a music setting for the purposes of testing academic learning in a work situation.

    Note: Variable credit one to five, may be preated for a total of 12 credits.
    Prerequisite: Acceptance in the EXCEL Program, upper division standing, a minimum 2.5 GPA, and permission of the department.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
  

  • MUS 499 - Independent Study

    An in-depth study for students with a particular interest or need.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 1 to 3

Native American Studies
  

  • NAS 100 - Introduction to Native American Studies

    This course provides an introduction to the major areas that make up Native American Studies. It provides an overview of contemporary Native Americans and the social, political, economic, and religious issues of special concern to them, as well as an examination of their prehistory, history, and traditional cultural patterns.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 240 - American Indian Philosophies and Religions

    We explore Native American religions and philosophies by examining cosmological narratives (creation stories) and their influences on ideology.  We seek to understand how various Native American peoples perceive the natural world and their relationship and responsibilities to it, and the effects of these beliefs on their philosophies and religious practices.

    Prerequisite: NAS 100; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 340 - Native American Women

    Although frequently stereotyped as drudges or Indian princesses, Native American women have long occupied diverse and frequently prominent roles in their societies. We will listen in as they tell us their own stories and then incorporate this information in a reevaluation of Native American life in the past and present.

    Prerequisite: NAS 100 or instructor permission.

    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 350 - Contemporary Native America

    Current issues in Indian country. The course focuses on contemporary social and political trends, and on their implications. Comparisons will be made between United States and Canadian Native communities, issues and policies.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 360 - American Indian Sovereignty

    This course examines the unique political relationships established between North American Indians and European colonial powers, and the effects of those relationships on subsequent sovereignty issues involving the United States. The focus is on the historical, legal, and cultural factors underlying interpretations of sovereignty, past and present.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film

    This is a course in the cinematic representations of Native Americans. Significant attention will be paid to the relationship between those representations and the construction of America and American identity.

    Prerequisite: Six hours of NAS credit OR nine hours of English credit (includes HON 204) and upper-division standing, or instructor permission.
    Equivalent Course: ENG 390
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • NAS 499 - Independent Study

    Individual study in the field of native american studies under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.

    Prerequisite: Senior standing, permission of instructor and program director.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 to 6

Oceanography
  

  • OCE 100 - Oceanography

    Survey of the primary physical, chemical, geological, and biological phenomena of the oceans. Includes study of ocean currents, waves, tides, structure and physiography of the ocean basins, marine sediments and marine ecology, heat budget and thermal processes, and the impact of humans on the ocean environment.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • OCE 399 - Independent Study

    Requires preparation by a superior student (cumulative GPA at least 3.0) who presents a written plan for a study not available as a regular course and nine hours in subject area.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 to 6

Peace and Conflict Studies
  

  • PCS 200 - Peace and Conflict Studies

    This course surveys the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies, covering both its theoretical and practical aspects. Topics include understandings of peace, nonviolent action, the causes and prevention of war, conflict resolution, international law and institutions, ethics, human well-being, and social change.

    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3

Philosophy
  

  • PHL 100 - Introduction to Problems of Philosophy

    A beginning study of a selected number of problems in philosophy such as the nature of reality, freedom versus determinism, the nature of matter, the nature of mind, the mind-body problem, the nature of space and time, the question of how we can know and by what means, the question of the existence of God, the problem of death and the possibility of immortality.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 111 - Valid Reasoning I

    An introduction to formal techniques for determining the validity of deductive arguments. Students will learn to complete proofs in symbolic propositional logic, and to complete proofs in symbolic quantified logic with sentences having at least one quantifier.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 205 - Ethics I: Introduction to Classical Ethics

    How should human beings lead their lives? How does Right differ from Wrong? Good from Bad? What is Virtue? In this course we introduce and critically evaluate the attempts of several major Western philosophers to answer these and related questions. The goal is to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of their views in order to help the student to understand better the nature of morality, and to develop the skills and background necessary for independent thought on these matters.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 220 - Theory of Knowledge

    This course consists of an introductory critical study of the nature and the possibility of knowledge. During the course we will examine differing philosophical views about issues such as: the relationship between opinion, belief and knowledge; the difference between objectivity and subjectivity; and alternative answers to questions such as “Can we know any- thing and, if so, how can we know it?”

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 235 - History of Ancient Philosophy

    This course is designed to provide a student with broad familiarity with the most important figures in Ancient Western philosophy. Some themes which are found throughout the course are: What is the nature of Reality? What is the nature of Human Beings and how do they fit unto the larger scheme of Things? What Things are of genuine value? How should one live? Concentration is greatest on Plato and Aristotle. Some attention is also given to the philosophers before Socrates, to the Neoplatonists, the Roman Stoics and some early Medieval thinkers.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 236 - History of Modern Philosophy

    This course covers major developments in European philosophy from the end of the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Attention is given to problems concerning the nature of Knowledge and Reality which had emerged near the end of the Middle Ages, were sharpened by the birth of modern science and the Protestant Reformation, and which posed major challenges to long-standing traditional views. Responses to these challenges were made by such major thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kant. These responses are studied in this course.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 295 - His Western Sci & Tech

    A study of the central developments in Western science from the earliest written traditions  to Copernicus’ theoretical innovations together  with an examination of the mutual influence  of theory and technology.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 300 - Ethics and Policy in the Digital Age

    In this course, we will explore key ethical theories of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, among others, and apply these theories to decisions about individual and social problems confronting electrical engineers, computer engineers, software engineers, and information scientists, thereby satisfying the Humanities and Writing general education requirements.

    Prerequisite: ISC 150 or CSC 212; or instructor permission.
    Equivalent Course: ISC 300
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 305 - Ethics II: Contemporary Ethics

    This course investigates selected topics in ethics of special interest to contemporary philosophers. For example: How are we to evaluate the morality of abortion, war, reverse discrimination, technological advancement, and our treatment of the environment and future generations? Is moral responsibility possible in a deterministic world? Is universal truth about right and wrong consistent with the observed personal and social relativity of moral belief? How can we improve on the classical accounts of right, wrong and Justice? What, precisely, do “right”, “wrong”, “good”, “bad” and other moral terms mean?

    Note: Topics will vary.
    Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 306 - Business Ethics

    This course investigates moral dilemmas which arise for business persons, and critically evaluates attempts to resolve these dilemmas. The responsibilities of business and persons in business vis a vis such things as: employee health and welfare, profitability, company loyalty, product safety and reliability, marketing techniques, the environment, and self-regulation will be illustrated and investigated through the examination of real cases which have arisen in business contexts. More general ethical issues relevant to the resolution of these dilemmas will also be investigated, for example, the nature of right, wrong and justice, and the moral foundations of capitalism.

    Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 307 - Philosophy, Public Policy and Public Affairs

    This course is devoted to a critical examination of issues and assumptions that are pertinent to the understanding of decision making in the case of public policy and affairs. Among the questions that form the foci of the course are questions such as: How should decisions about public policy or affairs be made? Could public policy be rational but unethical? Could ruthlessness be ethical if it is displayed by a public official? Must one blow the whistle on wrong doing? What is a public interest or public good? To what degree are citizens responsible for the decisions of public officials?

    Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 308 - Medical Ethics

    In this course, we will discuss some of the philosophical questions encountered with respect to medicine and medical technology. We will examine arguments concerning the ethical dimensions of some of the following issues: (e.g.) reproductive technology, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetic engineering and the use of genetic information, HIV, AIDS, and the physician-patient relationship, research on human subjects, allocation of medical resources, and medical errors.

    Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 309 - Logic, Language, and Thought

    This class explores the limits of reason, and what these limits mean for a range of human endeavors. The class brings together material from the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind, focusing upon the historical quest to formally understand the nature of reason. To achieve this goal, the class explores: the dream of a logically perfect language, the nature of infinity, paradoxes, the limits of computation, and difference between determinism and predictability. Once some of the limits of reason have been identified and clarified, students explore a range of practical problems where such limits may have significant real-world implications. The course should be of interest to majors in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, or to anyone curious about the nature and limits of knowledge.

    Prerequisite: PHL 111 OR MAT 215 OR CSC 221 OR CSC 212 OR COG 166 and upper division standing, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 310 - Valid Reasoning II

    Explores quantified logic with sentences having more than one quantifier; additional and alternative applications of logic, such as set theory or modal logic; and metalogic. Students will be introduced to principles such as axioms systems, completeness, models, and mathematical induction.

    Prerequisite: PHL 111 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 313 - Philosophy of Language

    In this course we investigate the nature of natural language and some of its basic concepts. We shall consider questions such as; What is the relation between language and the world it describes? How did that relationship emerge? How is language related to the way we perceive the world? Are humans the only creatures on this planet with language? What criteria could be used to answer these questions?

    Prerequisite: Three credits of philosophy or linguistics, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 314 - Existentialism

    This course pursues the idea that the existential account of authentic existence may provide the clues needed for an entirely new, individually centered, existential way of rethinking traditional philosophical problems such as of personal knowledge, ethics and value, the body, feeling, the senses and human sexuality, as well as the theory of ultimate reality.

    Prerequisite: PHL 220 OR 236, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 317 - Philosophy of Religion

    An introductory, philosophical examination of the nature of religion and religious belief and such problems as those of religious knowledge, faith versus reason, God, immortality and evil.

    Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 321 - Philosophy of Science

    In a scientifically and technologically based culture can one afford to be ignorant of the structure of science? Do the last three centuries of scientific work suggest that science has a unique grip on the way to gain knowledge? What is the rationality of science? This course addresses the need to understand the claims to knowledge that scientists make and examines the structure and function of scientific laws and theories and the way they are related to experiments.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing and one of the following PHL 111 OR 220 OR 236 OR 296, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 322 - Philosophy of Social Sciences

    This course offers a specialized critical study of the concepts, theories, and methodologies of the social sciences. Among the issues to be addressed in the course are the very possibility of a scientific study of human action and the existence of a model of science to which the social sciences have to conform.

    Prerequisite: PHL 111 OR 220 OR 236, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 323 - Philosophy of Biology

    Investigates philosophical questions that arise concerning findings and assumptions of modern biology. Topics may include: the nature of life; explaining teleological discourse; implications of different choices for the unit of selection; organism and species identity; and whether evolution has a direction.

    Prerequisite: Either PHL 111 and an upper division philosophy course, or PHL 321, or six hours in the biological sciences.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 337 - History of Recent Philosophy

    A critical study of Western philosophical thinkers from the mid-nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth. Including movements such as Post-Kantian Idealism, Positivism, Pragmatism, Marxism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Neorealism, Process Philosophy, and Analytic Philosophy.

    Prerequisite: PHL 236 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 348 - Philosophy and Feminism

    In this course the philosophical underpinnings of feminist theorizing, specifically as they are revealed in feminist critiques of philosophical positions, issues, concepts and theories or their absence, will be critically examined.

    Prerequisite: PHL 100 OR PHL 205 OR GWS 200, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 370 - Metaphysics

    This course investigates the nature and being of the Self, the Universe and Ultimate Reality. The course will focus on such questions as: What constitutes personal identity? What is the nature of space and time? Is there anything permanent?

    Prerequisite: PHL 111 and one of the following: PHL 220 OR 235 OR PHL 236 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 442 - Social and Political Philosophy

    Some conception of society is presupposed by every political philosophy and ethical theory. In this course, basic theories of political philosophy will be examined and alternative conceptions of society and their relations to political philosophy and ethical theory will be critically examined. Special attention will be given to the ideas and theoretical placement of individuality, community, work and family.

    Prerequisite: Six hours in philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 443 - Philosophy of Law

    This course is a critical philosophical examination of the nature and function of law, legal practices and institutions, and legal reasoning. Some of the following questions will be addressed in the course: What is law? What is its proper function? How are our own legal practices and institutions related to this function? Are there better alternatives? How is legality related to morality? Special attention will be given to the conceptual and moral foundations of alternative accounts of the nature, justification, interpretation, and limits of law.

    Prerequisite: Three hours in philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 450 - Current Topics in Philosophy Seminar

    An advanced study of a selected topic in contemporary philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year.

    Prerequisite: Six hours in philosophy or instructors permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 471 - Philosophy of Mind

    Without thinking much about it, we rely on some sort of contrast between physical things and mental things. What is the basis of this contrast? Are mental things like believing, hoping, perceiving, and feeling just various sorts of physical things? Or is the contrast so strong that mental things are entirely different in nature from any kinds of physical things or physical events? Or is our habit of relying on a contrast between them simply based on confusion or on worn-out, indefensible assumptions? We address these questions and others in this course.

    Prerequisite: PHL 220 Or PHL 236 Or COG 166, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 496 - Joint Seminar in Philosophy-Psychology

    Conceptual and epistemological problems associated with the nature of psychology, such as the following: the scientific status of certain psychological theories, e.g., the Freudian theory of personality; the issue of mind versus brain; the reduction of psychological concepts to those of physics; parapsychology.

    Prerequisite: Twelve hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 497 - Capstone Seminar in Philosophy

    The capstone is a culminating experience for philosophy majors. One of the seminar’s main components is the completion of a student learning portfolio. The examples of written work in the portfolio will be used as one source of evidence for assessing learning outcomes in the philosophy major. It will provide important indicators of students’ progress toward mastering the main concepts and skills of philosophy.

    Prerequisite: Eighteen hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall.
    Credit: 3
  

  • PHL 499 - Independent Study

    Advanced study of selected topics.

    Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy and instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3

Philosophy, Politics and Economics
  

  • PPE 495 - Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Senior Capstone

    This seminar is the culminating experience for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) majors.  The seminar will consider an important issue or important scholarly work from the perspective of each of the constituting disciplines of philosophy, political science, and economics. Students will write an interdisciplinary research paper integrating at least two of the three of the constituting disciplines.

    Prerequisite: Senior standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • PPE 496 - Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

    This seminar is the culminating experience for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) majors.  It is to be combined with an existing capstone in Philosophy, Political Science, or Economics.  The instructor will be from one of the constituting disciplines other than that of the capstone.  The instructor will work with the student and the instructor of the combined capstone to guide the student to further develop an interdisciplinary perspective culminating in an interdisciplinary research paper.

    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of the program director.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 1

Physical Education
  

  • PED 215 - Principles, Philosophy, and Organization of Athletics in Education

    An analysis of the concepts of athletic coaching including the coach as a professional teacher and educator and of the psychology of coaching most conducive to motivating maximum individual and team performance. Special attention is given to the conditions and techniques essential to successful coaching of competitive sports and to the common problems of coaching in the school and colleges of today.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • PED 225 - Underwater Diving (Scuba)

    Basic and advanced principles and techniques of scuba diving. Designed for the individual with little or no diving experience. Lectures cover physics and physiology, equipment, marine environment, diving safety and first aid.

    Note: Course fee required.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 2
  

  • PED 226 - Advanced Open Water Diving

    This course introduces the certified diver to various aspects of diving which allows the student to expand their skills and experience. The course focuses on 5 areas including, Underwater Navigation, Deep Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Wreck Diving.

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 2
  

  • PED 290 - Intercollegiate Athletics

    A study of the individual techniques, team strategies, and sports psychology related to varsity sports participation. Attention will be given to team and individual training techniques. Safety aspects of aerobic and weight machine conditioning will be stressed. Individual self-esteem and successful teamwork in a competitive sports structure will be emphasized.

    Prerequisite: Inclusion on the appropriate athletic team in a specific sport.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1
  

  • PED 295 - Life Skills

    This course is based on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) CHAMPS/Life Skills Program and is designed to assist the student-athlete at Oswego in exploring and developing life skills for success in the classroom, in sports, and in life. Students will assess, analyze and develop skills to enhance personal development.

    Prerequisite: Participate in intercollegiate athletics or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
 

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