Course Overview

Professor: Dr. Roy Clouser

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Overview
This class examines big questions philosophers have asked about reality, being, God, cosmology, reason, mind, heart human identity, time, and ethics. The class will explore various answers offered by secular and Christian thinkers in various cultures throughout history.

Outcomes

1. Identify some areas of perennial inquiry by philosophers, such as ontology (being), epistemology (knowing), logic (valid argumentation, ethics (morality), the universe and time (cosmology).
2. Know some major philosophers throughout history and their contribution to philosophy.
3. Understand and evaluate some of the most influential claims of various philosophers.
4. Discern how concepts and ideas are rooted in different worldviews and cultural assumptions.
5. Grasp and articulate distinctively Christian answers to important philosophical questions.

This course includes resources from many books and articles. You will read original authors. All required material is included in the online course. No book purchases are needed.

Assignments
View all online lectures and read all articles in each topic. CLI keeps track of whether you do this. After doing the required activities, take the quiz based on those activities  (100% of grade).

Quizzes

Quizzes will allow for two attempts. The average of these two attempts will be your final grade for the given quiz. 

Important note: Once all course quizzes have been taken AND the final feedback quiz has been completed, you will receive a final grade for the course, which will be recorded on your transcript. If a course allows more than one attempt, but you've completed at least one-attempt on each quiz and submitted the final feedback thus receiving a final grade, you will not be able to update that final grade by attempting a quiz again afterward. Once your final grade is recorded on your transcript, it will not be updated based on additional quiz attempts.

Grading Scale
A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   
C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%
Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%.
Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.

Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically withdrawn from the course and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and retake the class to receive credit.

Note: This course was formerly called Philosophy 101.