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Phil 2d03, Phil 2yy3 Or Hlth Aging 3e03????

 
Old 05-31-2010 at 05:24 PM   #1
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Phil 2d03, Phil 2yy3 Or Hlth Aging 3e03????
so... I'm guessing it is an okay course?

I don't know whether to take :

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PHILOS 2D03 - MORAL ISSUES
2.
PHILOS 2YY3 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
3. HEALTH AND AGING COURSES 3E03 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH AND AGING



I want something that is not TOO TIME CONSUMING and is MANAGEABLE ELECTIVE.

Any suggestions?
Old 05-31-2010 at 06:46 PM   #2
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I'd say either Moral Issues or the Health and Society one - a course covering the entire philosophical sub-field of Ethics may be a bit unwieldy. (For example, you may spend an entire unit talking about environmental ethics or just-war theory, whereas the other two courses would be limited to health care issues)

Although, in my experience with philosophy and especially ethics, the papers are quite easy to write as long as you're familiar with which philosophers said what (sometimes philosophy boils down to name-dropping )
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Hey, I took ethics this past year. It had a different prof than it will have this year, and given that it's just an "intro" and it's a 2nd year course (as opposed to the third year Ethics course I took last year) - it might not be too bad.

However, my experience with the ethics course this year was that it was time consuming. Not only were there weekly assignments, but the readings were sometimes quite difficult. If you're not a philosophy student, and you don't enjoy reading philosophy as a hobby, then you probably wouldn't enjoy it as an elective course.

A lot of people assume that philosophy courses would make easy electives. >_< Sometimes they probably would, but I think the majority of the time a lot of people are in over their heads. However, like I said before, I had a different prof and it depends what sorts of work and reading you're into. Good luck with your choice.



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