2011-2012 Undergraduate Philosophy Course Offering

Winter 2012  |  Spring 2012  |  Summer 2012 
Proposed Courses  Fall 2012  |  Winter 2013  |  Spring 2013
Independent Studies (Research, Thesis, Reading and Conference)

Courses that Satisfy Undergraduate Bachelor's Degree Requirements
Philosophy Course Descriptions from the UO Catalog
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UO Class Schedule

Winter 2012

• 101 Philosophical Problems (Frankowski)
• 102 Ethics (Zack)
• 103 Critical Reasoning (Vallega-Neu)
• 120 Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange (Morar)
• 123 Internet, Society, and Philosophy (Koopman)
• 216 Philosophy and Cultural Diversity (Fourlas)
• 308 Social and Political Philosophy (Brence)
• 311 History of Philosophy: Modern (Stawarska)
• 342 Introduction to Latin American Philosophy (Vallega)
• 350 Metaphysics (Arola)
• ASIA 399: Gandhi (Howard)
• GER 407: Angst (Librett) * Angst syllabus
• 421 Ancient Philosophers: Aristotle (Arola)
• 425 Philosophy of Language (Johnson)
• 433 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophers: Leibniz (Vallega-Neu)
• 453 19th-Century Philosophers: Kant (Zambrana)
• COLT 460: Major Theorists -- Arendt (Klebes)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Garcia-Marquez (Vallega)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Rorty (Koopman)

All Winter 2012 Philosophy Classes

Spring 2012

• 102 Ethics (Reynolds, A)
• 170 Love and Sex (Mann)
• 211 Existentialism (Warnek)
• 312 History of Philosophy: 19th Century (Zambrana)
• 322 Philosophy of Art (Johnson)
• 325 Logic, Inquiry, Argument (Zambrana)
• 339 Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Zack)
• 340 Environmental Philosophy (Brence)
• 345 Place in the Cosmos (Vallega-Neu)
• 399 Medical Ethics (Morar)
• SCAN 407 Sem Kierkegaard and Irony (Stern)
• 415 Continental Philosophy: Language and Performativity (Vallega-Neu)
• 433 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophers: Descartes (Dufourcq)
• 443 Feminist Philosophy of Language (Stawarska)
• 453 19th-Century Philosophers: Arendt (Mann)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Dewey (Johnson)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Irigaray (Stawarska)

All Spring 2012 Philosophy Classes

 Summer 2012

• 102 Ethics (Rodriguez)
• 110 Human Nature (Parzuchowski)
• 170 Love and Sex (Rognlie)
• 211 Existentialism (Grosz)
• 213 Asian Philosophy (Schultz)
• 309 Global Justice (Luttrell)
• 320 Philosophy of Religion (Warnek)
• 332 Philosophy of Film (Brence)
• 340 Environmental Philosophy (Reynolds, C)
• 410 Summer Institute in American Philosophy (Koopman)

All Summer 2012 Philosophy Classes

Fall 2012 (proposed)

• 101 Philosophical Problems (Johnson)
• 103 Critical Reasoning (GTF)
• 110 Human Nature (Vallega)
• 211 Existentialism (GTF)
• 307 Social and Political Philosophy (Koopman)
• 310 History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval (Warnek)
• 331 Philosophy in Literature (Vallega)
• 332 Philosophy of Film (Brence)
• 345 Human Place in the Cosmos (Vallega-Neu)
• 350 Metaphysics (Warnek)
• 399 Philosophy of Disaster (Zack)
• 407 Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Johnson)
• 410 Honors Workshop (Stawarska)
• 453 19th-Century Philosophers: Nietzsche (Vallega-Neu)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Foucault and Deleuze -- Philosophy as Cultural Critique (Koopman)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Royce (Pratt)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Beauvoir (Mann)

Winter 2013 (proposed)

• 102 Ethics (Alfano)
• 103 Critical Reasoning (Vallega-Neu)
• 120 Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange (Morar)
• 123 Internet, Society, and Philosophy (Koopman)
• 311 History of Philosophy: Modern (Stawarska)
• 315 Feminist Philosophy (Mann)
• 322 Philosophy of the Arts (Johnson)
• 325 Logic, Inquiry, Argument (Pratt)
• 342 Introduction to Latin American Philosophy (Vallega)
• 344 Philosophy of Law (Brence)
• 4xx Topic (Alfano)
• 407 Decolonial Latin American Thought (Vallega)
• 407 Internet, Public, and Private (Koopman)
• 415 Honors Cont: Recognition, Self, and Society (Zambrana)
• 420 James: Principle of Psychology (Johnson)
• 421 Ancient Philosophers: The Presocratics (Vallega-Neu)
• 433 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophers: Descartes and Locke (Zack)
• ENVS 440 Environmental Aesthetics (Toadvine)
• 453 19th-Century Philosophers: Schelling (Warnek)

Spring 2013 (proposed)

• 101 Philosophical Problems (TBA)
• 170 Love and Sex (Mann)
• 211 Existentialism (Warnek)
• 312 History of Philosophy: 19th Century (Zambrana)
• 323 Moral Theory (Alfano)
• 335 Medical Ethics (Morar)
• 339 Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Zack)
• 340 Environmental Philosophy (Brence)
• 399 Truth (Vallega-Neu)
• 407 Adv. Symbolic Logic (Pratt)
• 407 Queer Philosophy (Mann)
• 415 TBA (Stawarska)
• 421 Ancient Philosophers: Plato (Warnek)
• 433 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophers: Hume and Berkeley (Zack)
• 453 19th-Century Philosophers: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Zambrana)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Heidegger (Vallega-Neu)
• 463 20th-Century Philosophers: Rodolfo Kusch (Vallega)
• 4xx ?-Century Philosophers:TBA (Alfano)

Independent Studies

The following Independent Study courses are offered every term:

• PHIL 401: Research
• PHIL 403: Thesis
• PHIL 405: Reading and Conference

If a student plans to register for an independent study course, she or he must complete an Independent Study Agreement and submit signed copies to the instructor and department office. The Undergrduate Program Coordinator will enter registration authorization. The student still must register through DUCKWEB.

For PHIL 405: Reading and Conference, students should plan to meet with the instructor for at least one hour per week for every four credit hours registered. A two credit registration, for example, would involve at least five hours of meetings during a term. In addition to specified readings, instructors, in most cases, will also assign some written work.

Research and Thesis courses (401 and 403) should involve a larger written component but may not involve as many meeting hours. A four-hour course, for example, might involve four hours of meetings to discuss the student's work during the term.

In most cases, independent study courses should be taken on the P/NP grade option. Regardless of the grade option, instructors should provide a clear statement of what will be required for the course and how each requirement will relate to the final grade.

In general, undergraduate students cannot use Research, Thesis, or Reading and Conference courses to satisfy the history, logic, or author course requirements. Exceptions must be arranged in advance with the instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies.