Credit Hours - 3

Introduces excerpts of seminal texts to reveal lasting controversies and questions that concern basic assumptions central to the canons of metaphysics, epistemology, foundations of morality, social commentary and political thought.

Credit Hours - 3

The nature of religious and philosophical thinking. The nature, concerns and methodology of Philosophy of Religion. Aspects of religious faith and practice that provoke philosophical questions, e.g., arguments for and against the existence of God; life after death; miracles; prayer and providence; the problem of evil; meaning and problem of religious language; analogy. Verification. Reason, Faith and Revelation. Humanism. Religious pluralism and truth. 

Credit Hours - 3

Definitions, meaning and nature of theology from Christianity, Islam and African Indigenous Religions (AIR) perspectives; Methodological issues – basic theological orientation; exegesis and interpretation, academic and popular approaches; importance of context in theologizing; some key theological elements in AIR, Christianity and Islam. Some contemporary theological issues in relation to culture, religion, ecology, health and development. 

Credit Hours - 3

An historical account of key genres in ancient Greek and Roman literary works, traced from their folkloric orality and prototypes to their conscious classical developments, as illustrated through critical discussion of sample texts.

Credit Hours - 3

A broad and general study of ancient Graeco-Roman civilisations, highlighting processes in the development of material culture and the major trends and developments in social (including religious), constitutional (including political), and literary (including philosophical) history.

Credit Hours - 3

Introduction to propositional logic, elementary techniques of natural deduction, basic concepts of validity and soundness, distinguishing the syntactic analysis of reasoned argument from the varied criteria used for assessing other uses of language.