New Course PHILSPHY 121 "Truth and the Media."(This course is an introductory applied critical thinking course. All philosophy
courses involve critical thinking, but this course explicitly addresses both the good philosophical practices of critical thinking and the failures in critical thinking present in our news media. The aim is to attract first-year students and teach them the right kind of philosophical critical thinking skills to navigate effectively our often fallacy-ridden media landscape).
New Course PHILSPHY 364 "Existentialism." (Existentialism is the philosophy of the individual – the existing, concrete individual. It started as a reaction against the totalitizing systems of German Idealism that left the individual as small cog in the grand wheel of history. Since then, Existentialism has grown in stature through the likes of Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus. They tackle questions about what it means to be an individual and the struggle of living in freedom.
Change in the Philosophy Minor. (To change electives in the Philosophy Minor by eliminating two Religious Studies courses (RELIGST 303, RELIGST 330) and to recognize a number change in a retained Religious Studies Course (RELIGST 301).
Change in the Philosophy Education Minor. (To change electives in the Philosophy Minor by eliminating two Religious Studies courses (RELIGST 303, RELIGST 330) and to recognize a number change in a retained Religious Studies Course (RELIGST 301).
Race & Ethnic Studies
Change in the Race & Ethnic Studies Minor. (Re-organizes the requirement structure to allow more flexibility. Adds new courses, deletes courses not longer being taught and updates course numbers).