PHIL 325 - Philosophy for the Soul

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Diversity
This course of psychological philosophy will focus on philosophical answers to problems of daily life. Topics include: exclusion; diversity; anxiety; abandonment; love; projection; fear; and more.

Prerequisites: Lower division GE
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Online-Asynchronous or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the philosophical and cultural study of philosophy of life (Lebensphilosophie):

2. Develop their capacities for ethical decision making, Socratic humility, openness to the ideas of others, reflective self-awareness, and a life-long curiosity and apply them to an analysis of their own internal life;

3. Cultivate an appreciation for ideas about lived experience in areas such as: religion, culture, ethnicity, race, class, sexuality, and gender.

4. Analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ internally lived realities.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.