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Religious Studies Program

The Cal Poly Philosophy Department houses a Religious Studies program with a wide variety of courses in GE and a Religious Studies minor.

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Between the Species

Between the Species online journal logoAn online philosophy journal about the relationship between humans and animals.
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Ethics Group


Cal Poly's Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group focuses on the implications and impact of emerging sciences and technologies.
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Course Offerings

    Philosophy TENTATIVE Course Offerings 2024-2025

    Notes:

    • Consult the schedule of classes to see actual course offerings for the upcoming term and modality of instruction (in-person/virtual).
    • Until the schedule of classes is published, all course offerings are TENTATIVE and subject to change.
    Course title
    (Units) GE
    SUMMER
    2024
    fall
    2024
    winter
    2025
    spring
    2025
    PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy (4)   Jenkins    
    PHIL 126 Logic and Argumentative Writing (4) GE A3

    Barnes

    Dickey

    F. Fernflores

    Barnes

    Batoon

    Da Vee

    Dickey

    Houser

    LeBrun

     

    Barnes

    Bomstad

    Da Vee

    Dickey

    Zahn

    Barnes

    Bomstad

    Da Vee

    Dickey

    LeBrun

    PHIL 230 PHIL Classics: Knowledge and Reality (4) GE C2

    F. Fernflores

    Zahn

    Andes

    Barnes

    Da Vee

    Helms

    Long

    Wallace

    Zahn

    Andes

    Da Vee

    Helms

    Long

    Wallace

    Andes

    Barnes

    Da Vee

    Helms

    Long

    Zahn

    PHIL 231 Phil Classics: Ethics and Political Philosophy (4) GE C2

    Looper

    Dickinson

    Houser

    Houser

    Graziano

    LeBrun

    Looper

    Lynch (HNRS)

    Zoller

    Dickinson

    Graziano

    Houser

    Looper

    LeBrun

     

    Dickinson

    Graziano

    Houser

    LeBrun

    Looper

    PHIL 241 Symbolic Logic I (4)   F. Fernflores   F. Fernflores
    PHIL 300 Philosophical Writing and Research: Free Speech, Trust, and Lies (4)  

    Wright

       
    PHIL 300 Philosophical Writing and Research: TBD (4)   Story    
    PHIL 300 Philosophical Writing and Research: TBD (4)       Sparks
    PHIL 301 Philosophical Topics: Latin American, Latinx, and Chicanx Philosophy (4) GE C4     F. Fernflores  
    PHIL 301 Philosophical Topics: Facism (4) GE C   Jenkins    
    PHIL 309 Early Greek Philosophy Through Plato (4) GE C4       Zoller
    PHIL 310 Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy (4) GE C4   Brown    
    PHIL 312 Medieval Philosophy (4) GE C4   Dickinson    
    PHIL 313 Early Modern Rationalism (4) GE C4     Looper  
    PHIL 314 Early Modern Empiricism (4) GE C4  

    Graziano

       
    PHIL 315 Kant and 19th Century Philosophy (4) GE C4        
    PHIL 317 History of Analytic Philosophy (4) GE C4       Graziano
    PHIL 318 Phenomenology (4) GE C4     Zoller  
    PHIL 319 Existentialism (4) GE C4     Helms Houser
    PHIL 321 Philosophy of Science (4) GE C4   F. Fernflores   F. Fernflores
    PHIL 322 Philosophy of Technology (4) GE C4     Jenkins  
    PHIL 323 Ethics, Science and Technology (4) GE C4

    Jenkins

     

    Sparks

    Wright

    Zahn

    Story (HONORS 325)

    Jenkins

    Lin

    Story

    Wright

    Lin

    Story

    Wright

    PHIL 327 Robot Ethics (4) GE C4   Abney Abney Abney
    PHIL 328 Technologies & Ethics of War (4) GE C4       Jenkins
    PHIL 331 Ethics (4) GE C4  

    Looper

    Zoller

    Sparks

    PHIL 332 History of Ethics (4) GE C4        
    PHIL 333 Political Philosophy (4) GE C4     Wright

    Looper

    PHIL 334 Philosophy of Law (4) GE C4       Wright
    PHIL 335 Social Ethics (4) GE C4 USCP Dickinson Dickinson

     

    Dickinson

    Zoller

    PHIL/WGS 336 Feminist Ethics, Gender, and Society (4) GE C4 USCP Story  

    Story

     

    PHIL 337 Business Ethics (4) GE C4     Sparks  
    PHIL 339 Biomedical Ethics (4) GE C4 Abney Abney Abney Abney
    PHIL 340 Environmental Ethics (4) GE C4       Zahn
    PHIL 341 Professional Ethics (4) GE C4        
    PHIL 342 Philosophy of Religion (4) GE C4   Lynch   Wallace
    PHIL 343 Power, Alienation, and Political Life (4) GE C4   Zoller    
    PHIL 350 Aesthetics (4) GE C4        
    PHIL 351 Philosophy of Literature (4) GE C4       Helms
    PHIL 361 Indian Philosophy (4)        
    PHIL 362 East Asian Philosophy (4)        Lynch
    PHIL 369 Postmodernism (4) GE C4        
    PHIL 385 Advanced Ethics Bowl (3)   Sparks Sparks  
    PHIL 400 Special Problems (1-4)   Staff Staff Staff
    PHIL 411 Metaphysics (4)     Wallace Wallace
    PHIL 412 Epistemology (4)   Long Long  
    PHIL 421 Philosophy of Space, Time, and Matter (4)     F. Fernflores  
    PHIL 422 Philosophy of Mind (4)   Wallace    
    PHIL 423 Philosophy of Language (4)        
    PHIL 429 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: TBD (4)   Helms    
    PHIL 429 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: TBD (4)       Brown / Jenkins
    PHIL 439 Selected Problems in Ethics and Political Philosophy: TBD (4)     Sparks  
    PHIL 449

    Selected Topics in Recent Philosophy (4)

          Long
    PHIL 459 Senior Project Preparation (1 Activity)   Brown Brown Brown
    PHIL 470 Selected Advanced Topics (1-4)        

     

    Religious Studies TENTATIVE Course Offerings 2024-2025

    Notes:

    • Consult the schedule of classes to see actual course offerings for the upcoming term and modality of instruction (in-person/virtual).
    • Until the schedule of classes is published, all course offerings are TENTATIVE and subject to change.
    Course title
    (Units) GE
    SUMMER
    2024
    fall
    2024
    winter
    2025
    spring
    2025
    RELS 201 Religion Dialogue and Society (4) GE D2 Lloyd-Moffett   Lloyd-Moffett  
    RELS 205 Jesus (4)        
    RELS 301 Religion of Asia (4) GE C4        
    RELS 302 Abrahamic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (4) GE C4     benShea  
    RELS 304 Judaism (4) GE C4   benShea    
    RELS 306 Hinduism (4) GE C4     Foxen  
    RELS 307 Buddhism (4) GE C4       Lynch
    RELS 310 Christianity (4) GE C4       Lloyd-Moffett
    RELS 311 Islam (4) GE C4     benShea  
    RELS 344 Approaches to Religion and Spirituality (4) GE D5       Lloyd-Moffett
    RELS/WGS 370 Religion, Gender, and Society (4) GE C4 USCP Foxen

     

    Kuhn

     

    Kuhn

     
    RELS 372 Spiritual Extremism (4) GE C4        
    RELS 374 Religion and Violence (4) GE C4 benShea benShea benShea benShea
    RELS 378 Religion and Contemporary Values (4) GE C4       benShea
    RELS/POLS 380 Religion and Politics in Israeli Palestinian Conflict (4)        
    RELS 400 Independent Study         
    RELS 470 Selected Advanced Topics (1-4)        
    RELS 480 Selected Topics in Religious Studies (4)        

     

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