Course Guide – Brookdale Campus – Fall 2010 

Course TitleDescription

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

 

Ethics: East and West 
56:606:541:W1
Tu 6:00 – 8:40 PM
Professor Ken Howarth 
howarthk@mccc.edu

Graduate students are introduced to scholarship in virtue-centered theories of ethics in the Western and Asian traditions.  We shall focus in particular on the classical and contemporary grounds and ethical contexts with and to which the major virtue-based traditions aim. The broad issue of how cultivating excellence of character provides an adaptive and compelling approach to individual, role-based, group and societal ways of good living and moral practices will also be examined. Emphasis will be given to critical analysis of theories with roots in the Aristotelian and Chinese thought, though other key theories will be studied, along with consideration of gender, cultural, and economic factors. A wide variety of primary sources will be drawn upon, including philosophical, historical, literary and scientific materials.

 

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

   
Journies to Heaven, Hell and Other Worlds 
ONLINE COURSE
56:606:642:W1
Cross-listed: 56:606:642:01; 56:606:642:A1 
By Arrangment 
Professor Kenneth banner 
banner@camden.rutgers.edu
Most religions and cultures around the world have stories of ascending  to heaven, descending to hell or traveling to another reality.  They  usually take the form of dreams, visions, near-death experiences or  even claims of physical ascent.  This course will examine accounts  from both the ancient past and the modern world.  It will explore how  scholars study such narratives and what they can teach us about  religious experience and religion itself.
   

RESEARCH IN LIBERAL STUDIES

 

56:606:689:01
Professor Stuart Charme
scharme@camden.rutgers.edu

Independent study of a special interest to the student, under supervision of an advisor chosen in consultation with the program director.

56:606:690:01
Professor Stuart Charme

 

MATRICULATION CONTINUED

 

56:606:800:01
Professor Stuart Charme