PHIL 220H - Philosophy of Religion (Honors)

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the positions and arguments relating to religious issues.
2. Analyze religious questions using classical and contemporary sources.
3. Identify various scholarly, cultural, and scientific approaches to the study of religion.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of philosophy and its relationship to the academic study of religion.
5. Describe differences in religious and nonreligious views of reality.
6. Demonstrate an appreciation of religious diversity.
7. Discuss rational reflection on religious concepts and claims.
8. Demonstrate advanced skills in analysis, synthesis, and evaluation by integrating information about culture, society, and social institutions from the assigned reader with concepts presented in the textbook.
9. Conduct comprehensive research that demonstrates an advanced understanding of contemporary philosophical issues.
10. Engage with complex issues that expose them to diverse ideas, peoples, and to interdisciplinary ways of thinking that develop/enhance their critical thinking skills and promote continuous learning outside the classroom.
11. Exhibit dedication and preparation for future undergraduate and graduate studies through examples of leadership and high levels of scholarship.
12. Develop collaboration and camaraderie with students and faculty creating a strong network for mutual, intellectual, and social support.
13. Honor’s student writing demonstrates: focus, organization, support that is documented according to expectations, evidence of above-average critical thinking, and attention to rhetorical situations.

• Good and evil
• Fideism
• Natural theology
• Cosmological argument
• Design argument
• Epistemological argument
• Sin
• Teleological argument
• Ontological argument
• Disembodied existence
• Contemporary religion
• Reincarnation
• Historical religion
• Resurrection
• Symbolism
• Mythology
• Scripture
• Faith
• Origin and nature of religion

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