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| Goal: 1 Improve curriculum in philosophy and increase the number of majors and minors. |  | Measure: Evaluate the number and quality of new courses offered... Program level; Indirect - Other | |  | | | Proposed actions to achieve goal: Continue transforming the requirement in the major from a course on an individual philosopher into a senior seminar on a philosopher. Offer a seminar in 2017-2018.
Continue to develop a course of studies in philosophy appropriate for students interested in attending law school.
Continue to offer courses that support students interested in law school, e.g., Philosophy of Law.
Continue to assign an adviser to each new major and minor in Philosophy.
Continue to offer courses that will have an interdisciplinary appeal, for example, Philosophy and Psychology, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy and Film.
Continue offering “Faith and Reason” at least once a year. (This course is cross-listed with RELS and fulfills the Catholic component of the Religious Studies Requirement.)
Offer more and a wider range of courses examining issues of gender, race, sexuality, and class, for example, Great Women Philosophers, Philosophers on Race, Class, and Gender.
Offer courses in non-Western Philosophy and outside of the traditional Western canon, for example, African Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy.
Have open houses to discuss philosophy courses and the major and the minor.
Support informal meetings of students outside of the classroom, some with faculty, some without. This would be an informal Philosophy Club.
Work with the Film Society in order to address the philosophical aspects of filmExpected Results: Details/Description: Evaluate the number and quality of new courses offered, the range of offerings of required courses, the advising system, and see if there has been an increase in the number of majors and minors. |
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| Goal: 2 Strengthen ethics education at Manhattan College and in the surrounding community. | | Measure: Archive Activities mentioned in Actions 1-6 Program level; Indirect - Other | | | | | Proposed actions to achieve goal: 1) Promote the new interdisciplinary minor in ethics and have philosophy faculty serve as advisors to students minoring in ethics
2) Collaborate with other Departments and Schools in developing the Center for Ethics.
3) Offer courses in ethics taught by full-time faculty in philosophy, e.g., environmental ethics, disaster ethics, ethics and superheroes.
4) Address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and class in a variety of ethics courses.
5) Work with the Center for Ethics on programs, workshops, and symposia in ethics, especially in applied fields.
6) Support the Debate Team, for example, by having Dr. Bollert continue as the team’s coach.Expected Results: Details/Description: Provide an account of how many of the activities mentioned in #1-6 have been accomplished. |
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| Goal: 3 Use the resources of the Department to help improve the critical thinking skills of students throughout Manhattan College. | | Measure: Assess the critical thinking course, and record the number of sections and students taking critical thinking. Program level; Indirect - Other | | | | | Proposed actions to achieve goal: 1) Teach one section of critical thinking each semester.
2) Develop a pre-law critical thinking course.
Expected Results: Details/Description: Assess the critical thinking course, and record the number of sections and students taking critical thinking. |
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| Goal: 4 Increase the faculty’s involvement in scholarship and research, including interdisciplinary work. | | Measure: Determine whether Philosophy faculty are tenured and promoted in a timely fashion. Program level; Indirect - Other | | | | | Proposed actions to achieve goal: 1) Continue to offer workshops in which faculty discuss their work in progress.
2) Invite speakers to campus who are doing first-rate philosophical work.
3) Share information about conferences and publishing possibilities.
4) Faculty will have regular consultation with the chair about research and scholarship.Expected Results: Details/Description: Determine whether Philosophy faculty are tenured and promoted in a timely fashion. Evaluate the quality and the number of publications of the Philosophy faculty. Address whether the Department is retaining first-rate faculty and whether they are full-time or visitors. |
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Philosophy Administrative Goal Set 2017-2018