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2024-2025 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Cal State East Bay Catalog
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PHIL 243 - Spirituality & Health


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C2
Explores the intersections between religion, spirituality, and health. Topics include cultural values and beliefs toward illness and well-being, the distinction between religion and spirituality, medicine and healing in aboriginal, Chinese, and selected religious traditions, holistic (or mind/body) medicine, and contemporary complementary medical practices.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C2 - Lower Division Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. read complex texts, create original arguments, analyze the arguments of others, and express these criticisms orally and in writing.
  2. demonstrate knowledge of philosophical and/or religious traditions, their relevant concepts, theories, methods, and historical contexts.
  3. develop their capacities for ethical decision making, Socratic humility, openness to ideas of others, reflective self-awareness, and a life-long curiosity about big questions.
  4. cultivate an appreciation for a diversity of ideas and values across time and for human difference.


C2. Humanities Learning Outcomes
  1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
  2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
  3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.



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