Instructor: Sandra LaFave

This course introduces philosophical problems and various approaches to their solutions. You will learn about selected systems of Western philosophy. I will emphasize how philosophy is relevant to issues of daily life. The course will explore answers to such questions as: What is reality? What can we know? What, if anything, makes persons more important than non-persons? Are human acts free or determined? What, if anything, makes an act right or wrong?

This course uses ANGEL. If you like, you can familiarize yourself with ANGEL before the course begins. Go to the ANGEL Student Quickstart Guide.

Click to see the current syllabus for Philosophy 1. This should give you a good idea what the class is like.

If you would like to start reading the course materials before the semester begins, please see the Philosophy 1 Online Study Guide.

Free tutoring will be available for this class!

IMPORTANT! Your ANGEL account is set up ONLY after you have completed registration. No student accounts on ANGEL become active before opening day of the Spring 2007 semester. Please LOG IN to the class on opening day.

If you ADD the class after the semester begins, your account may not become active until a couple of days after your add is processed. Please be aware that late enrollment in the class does NOT automatically entitle you to extensions of deadlines or make-ups or special considerations of any kind.

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