Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog

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PHIL 351 - Social and Political Philosophy


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Study of the philosophical theories underlying or justifying policy issues: individual freedom and government protection of rights; freedom of speech and religious, racial or sexual prejudice; affirmative action and reverse discrimination; violence, personal responsibility and roots of social injustice.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

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


GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
 

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

 
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
 

  1. use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
  2. describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
  3. identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.



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