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Elementary Foreign Language 4 CHEM 105 or CHEM 125 4 HIST 101 Western Civilization I 4 HIST 102 Western Civilization II 4 RETP 101 Rhetoric and Poetics I 4 RETP 102 Rhetoric and Poetics II 4 Total 16 Total 16 Sophomore Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits PHIL 205 Nature and Person 4 POLT 203 American Civilization 4 THEO 105 Sacred Scripture 4 THEO 205 Sacred Doctrine 4 PSYC 201 Principles and Methods 4 PSYC 301 Human Development 4 BIOL 304 Anatomy and Physiology I 4 BIOL 309 Anatomy and Physiology II 4 NURS 200 Clinical Nutrition** 2 Total 16 Total 18 Junior Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits NURS 310 Fundamentals of Nursing 3 NURS 350 Psychiatric-Mental Health 3 NURS 310C Fundamentals of Nrsg Clin 2 NURS 350C Psychiatric-Mental Hlth Clin 2 NURS 330 Pathophysiology 3 NURS 340 Adult Health and Illness I 3 NURS 315 Health Assessment 1 NURS 340C Adult health and Illness Clin 2 NURS 315C Health Assessment Clin 2 NURS 360 Evidence Based Practice 3 NURS 215 Intro to Prof Nursing 2 PHIL 206 Ethics 4 NURS 335 Applied Pharmacology 3 Total 16 Total 17 Senior Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits NURS 410 Community Health 3 THEO 390 Catholic Bioethics 4 NURS 410C Community Health Clin 2 NURS 430 Care of Children 3 NURS 420 Care of Women 3 NURS 430C Care of Children Clin 2 NURS 420C Care of Women Clin 2 NURS 450 Leadership and Management 3 NURS 440 Adult Health/Illness II 3 NURS 450C Leadership and Mgmt Clin 2 NURS 440C Adult Health/Illness II Clin 2 NURS 455 Professional Nursing Review 2 Total 15 Total 16 Total Credits: 130 *Students who wish to take CHEM 125 must take MATH 150 or higher. **Students must apply and be admitted to the nursing program before enrolling in NURS 200 Clinical Nutrition. This course is offered in the Spring semester. Philosophy Chair: Dr. Joseph Trabbic, Associate Professor of Philosophy Philosophy at Ave Maria University is understood according to its original meaning as the love and pursuit of wisdom. It is deeply rooted in the human person’s desire to know truth, the truth about himself and the world around him. Our wonder at ourselves and the world moves us to ask questions about them, and philosophy seeks answers to these questions and to articulate these answers in a systematic and rigorous way. In seeking these answers, philosophy ultimately arrives at “first principles.” By these first principles we come understand our nature, how we should live, the nature of the world around us, and, to some extent, the divine (which is the first principle). The study of these things is the task of the primary philosophical disciplines, namely, logic, natural philosophy (which includes the study of the human person), moral philosophy, and metaphysics. Courses in the last three disciplines fo rm a part of the University’s core curriculum and are at the heart of the philosophical education we offer to our philosophy majors and minors. Our philosophy program recognizes that the pursuit of wisdom is an ongoing and communal enterprise. It not only requires serious dialogue with contemporary thinkers, but also with those of the past. The ancient philosophers, especially Plato and Aristotle, to whom the Western philosophical tradition owes so much, will be closely studied. Then there is the deep and rich tradition of exemplary Catholic thinkers, first of all St. Thomas Aquinas, and, along with him, St. Augustine, Boethius, St. Anselm, St. Bon aventure, St. John Henry Newman, Jacques Maritain, Reginald Garrigou -Lagrange, Edith Stein, Karol Wojtyla, and Elizabeth Anscombe, among others. Professors and students of philosophy at the University seek to think in continuity with this great Catholic tradition, studying it closely and taking guidance from it. The important thinkers with whom they are more likely to have serious disagreements, such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger will not be neglected. We seek to consider the contributions of Jewish, Islamic, and non-Western philosophers as well. Our philosophy program likewise recognizes that in Catholicism philosophy has always had an important and unique relationship with theology, with philosophy being valued as both a propaedeutic to the faith and a foundation for the clarification and analysis carried out by theology of the truths revealed by God. But it has also been understood that philosophy itself can benefit from revelation, at least materially. For example , as Pope John Paul II points out in Fides et ratio, revelation clearly proposes certain truths that, although philosophy could have discovered them on its own, it might never have done so. Revelation can also confirm philosophically knowable truths about which we might still be personally uncertain. Because of the special relationship between philosophy and theology, the Church’s magisterium has always considered philosophy to be an appropriate matter for it to speak about. Our program accordingly takes cognizance of important magisterial pronouncements on philosophy, particularly Vatican I’s Dei Filius, Pope Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris, Pope Pius XII’s Humani generis, and Pope John Paul II’s already-mentioned Fides et ratio. Student Learning Goals and Outcomes for the B.A. in Philosophy Goal 1: Students will cultivate and develop intellectual habits. Outcome 1: Students will demonstrate the ability to approach reality, reason, systematize, and read philosophically. Goal 2: Students will develop competence in the philosophy of being. Outcome 2: Students will evidence the ability to distinguish the nature and meaning of human existence. Outcome 3: Students will evidence the ability to distinguish the primary causes of reality, namely nature, man, the intelligences, and God. Goal 3: Students will achieve competence in the philosophy of mind. Outcome 4: Students will be able to identify the principles of philosophical reasoning. Outcome 5: Students will be able to verify the human capacity to know the truth. Goal 4: Students will achieve competence in the History of Western Philosophy, viz. ancient, medieval, and modern and contemporary philosophy. Outcome 6: Students will have the ability to describe and contrast the major events in the development of philosophy, as well as the significant characteristics and proponents of the various historical eras. Goal 5: Students will develop competence in moral philosophy. Outcome 7: Students will have the ability to elucidate the principles of right living and governance as these pertain to the individual. Outcome 8: Students will have the ability to elucidate the principles of right living and governance as these pertain to the community. Goal 6: Students will develop the ability to understand the relationship between philosophy and theology. Outcome 9: Students will demonstrate examples of the difference between faith and reason. Core Courses PHIL 205 Nature and Person PHIL 206 Ethics PHIL 300 Metaphysics Required Courses for the Major LATN 101 Elementary Latin LATN 102 Intermediate Latin PHIL 203 Logic PHIL 205 Nature and Person PHIL 206 Ethics PHIL 300 Metaphysics PHIL 302 Ancient Philosophy PHIL 305 Medieval Philosophy PHIL 412 Modern and Contemporary Philosophy PHIL 490 Senior Seminar* Two Elective Major Courses *A 4000-5000 word thesis will be written senior year in PHIL 490. Minor in Philosophy The Minor in philosophy allows students majoring in other disciplines to develop concentration in philosophy, and to have this concentration officially recognized. The student must complete six philosophy courses —three Core philosophy courses (PHIL 205, PHIL 206, PHIL 300), PHIL 203, and two others of the student’s choice. It is suggested that the student specify his courses to have a concentration complementing his chosen major. Course Descriptions PHIL 203 LOGIC Taking the Aristotelian approach as fundamental, this course introduces students to logic understood as the art and science of correct reasoning. It will help them to think and argue more clearly as well as to analyze effectively the arguments and ideas of others. The course is structured around an analysis of the operations of the intellect, viz. understanding, judgment, and reasoning and the proper products of these operations, viz. the term, proposition, and syllogism.