PHIL 253 - Intro to the Philosophy of Religion
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: RDG 090 and ENGL 090 or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests.
C5 General Education Human Experience Satisfier Y
MTA Humanities/Fine Arts Satisifer Y
Global Studies Satisfier Course Y
Session Cycle: FW
This course presents an introductory inquiry into the study of the philosophy of religion and how philosophers evaluate religious claims. The concern of the course is not to inculcate any particular faith or doctrinal position but to develop an understanding and appreciation of basic religious concepts, and to give students philosophical tools to evaluate them. This course is a satisfier course for the Global Studies Degree Designation.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
1. Recognize the role of religions in world cultures past and present.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
2. Recognize and utilize the basic vocabulary of the field used to analyze religious concepts.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A and B.
3. Recognize the methods of philosophy and apologetics: the philosophical defense of religious beliefs.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A and B.
4. Recognize that atheists, agnostics, and people of faith can and do philosophize about religion.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
5. Recognize that philosophy of religion is a second-order activity, standing at one remove from its subject matter–related to the religious realm in the same way that the philosophy of law is related to the legal realm, the philosophy of art is related to the work of the artist, or the philosophy of science relates to the specific science.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
6. Identify the existential themes running through modern approaches to the philosophy of religion.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
7. Identify the central beliefs of a variety of the world’s religions, past and present.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
8. Demonstrate the ability to objectively discuss various aspects of world religions and the philosophical principles used to support these religions.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A and B.
9. Demonstrate the ability to state the philosophical and theological principles of each of the philosophers examined in this course.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
10. Recognize and analyze the differences between being religious and being spiritual.
Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency Objectives A, B, and C.
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