Credit Hours - 3

Provides practical familiarity with quantificational first order predicate logic, and a cursory survey of some basic features of formal systems such as consistency, adequacy, and the significance of undecidable formulas.

Credit Hours - 3

A critical introduction to Plato‘s Socratic Dialogues, with special emphasis on analyses and discussions of the enduring scholarly issues in Socratic method(s), epistemology, ethics, politics and religion.

Credit Hours - 3

Distinguishing normative reasoning from meta-ethics, this course will study the foundations, nature, and function of morality, covering scepticism, naturalist and subjectivist vs. realist theories of morality, varieties of ethical relativism and objectivism, ethics of care, virtue ethics, notions of integrity, moral weakness and moral responsibility, and free will.

Credit Hours - 3

An examination of principles central to the normative appraisals of human agency and institutions involving the concepts of justice, legitimate authority, sovereignty, power, self-determination, democratic governance, representation, participation, obligation, equity, civil liberty, human rights, and ideology.

Credit Hours - 3

An examination of modern and classical problems connected with the notion of mind as it emerged from the European Enlightenment‘s mechanistic worldview, including the place of consciousness in the physical world, diagnostic methods for treating metaphysical confusion emanating from everyday psychological vocabulary, artificial life and intelligence, action and intentionality.

Credit Hours - 3

Critical survey of classical and modern texts that propose knowledge is somehow based upon sense experience. Discussion focuses upon works in the British empiricism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and subsequent work that their views inspired, e.g. the critiques of Kant.

Credit Hours - 3

A logical and exegetical analysis of the key ideas and concepts that constitute the framework of Aristotle’s philosophy, in the areas of investigative methodology, metaphysics, ethics, humanity, and theology.

Credit Hours - 3

A historical, philological and logical study of the early beginnings of Western science and philosophy, concentrating on the construction and assessment of arguments based on the extant fragments and/or testimonia from Thales, through Parmenides and the atomists to Diogenes of Apollonia.

Credit Hours - 3

A critical introduction to Plato‘s Socratic Dialogues, with special emphasis on analyses and discussions of the enduring scholarly issues in Socratic method(s), epistemology, ethics, politics and religion.

Credit Hours - 3

Selected texts of epic and drama (tragedy and comedy) are analysed and discussed in terms of their themes and social function; plot and structure, setting, characterisation, use of language and other literary devices, and general literary qualities.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of Roman epic with emphasis on Virgil‘s Aeneid, and of Roman drama, focusing on Plautus and Terence. Content will concentrate on the Greek influence in the production process; the themes and their political and social context, audience and occasion; the analyses of language use, setting, plot and structure, characterisation, literary devices, and general literary qualities.

Credit Hours - 3

An account of the encounter between the ancient Greeks and Africans and the social, economic, military and political consequences, as well as the attitudinal reactions of the Greeks to the encounter, as reflected in their plastic and literary arts.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of the encounter between the ancient Romans and Africans and the consequences. Topics include the physical presence of Africans, and African animals and products in the Roman world; trade relations; the social, economic, military and political dimensions of the encounter; and Roman attitudes to the encounter, as reflected in their plastic and literary arts.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of a watershed period in early Western history, highlighting the evolution of the city- state, the development of literacy, democratic constitutions, the philosophic and scientific temper, the major wars, and the Hellenisation of a significant part of the ancient world.

Credit Hours - 3

A critical examination of the concept and institution of slavery in Graeco-Roman antiquity, focusing on forms of economic slavery, politics and slavery, the effects of slavery on society and the economy, and slavery and human development.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of the various forms of government that defined the political character and attitude of the ancient Greeks, focusing on an examination of Spartan communism and the evolution of democracy in Athens.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of the 300 years between the reign of Alexander (336-323 BC) and Augustus, the first Roman Emperor (31 BC-AD14), focusing on the conquests of Alexander, the post-Alexandrian Greek kingdoms and the Hellenisation process.

Credit Hours - 3

Based on a critical evaluation of the sources, this is a study of the birth of the Roman Republic, the development of the Republican constitution, Rome’s rise to the centre of a world empire, the intervention of the military in politics, and the causes of the decline and fall of the Republic.

Credit Hours - 3

An examination of the central tenets of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonian scepticism, and an account of the main trends of Greek science, from its beginnings in cosmological speculations to its empirically and experimentally based approaches in the development of mathematics, mechanics, engineering, medical and other sciences.

Credit Hours - 3

An examination of the powers and functions of the emperor up to the reign of Domitian, consideration of the issue of separation of powers, the role of the emperor‘s household in empire-governance, procuratorial service, and the role of the law in imperial governance.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of Greek religion from its prehistoric origins, through the natural theology of the Presocratics, to the philosophical encounter between Greek and Jewish religions in the Hellenistic Period.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of Roman religion from its polytheistic prehistoric origins to the advent of Christian monotheism.

Credit Hours - 3

A cultural-historical and aesthetical study of Greek art and architecture, designed to develop skills in the critical analysis of objects through the cultivation of visual literacy.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of classical Greek, focusing on phonology, punctuation, morphology, declension of nouns, pronouns and adjectives, and the conjugation of verbs, with exercises in transliteration and pronunciation.

Credit Hours - 3

The study concentrates on classical Latin. Morphology covers the various verb types and their conjugations, plus the declensions of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, with exercises in reading and translation of basic sentences.

Credit Hours - 3

This stage of Greek studies focuses on basic syntax, with exercises in reading and translation, covering word-order: positioning clitic particles, tmesis and pronouns; using the definite article to attribute, predicate or nominalise adjectives, participles, infinitives, and whole sentences; and constructing simple sentences.

Credit Hours - 3

Focuses on the introduction of basic syntax: word-order, comparative constructions, constructions showing agreement, and the constructions of questions (single, double, deliberative), commands, and wishes.

Credit Hours - 3

A critical study of the origins of myths in Graeco-Roman antiquity, their oral functions and structure, literary uses, attitudes to and theories of interpretation.

Credit Hours - 3

Addresses the legacy of the seventeenth century European Enlightenment and its antecedents in the Abbasid Empire, when the reliance upon the individual’s systematic reasoning to understand the world took precedence over appeal to authority of ancient texts.  The seminal influences of Ibn Al-Haythem, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Spinoza and others will be introduced.

Credit Hours - 3

Introducing the realist (naturalist) vs. idealist (subjectivist) debate about the subject matter of history, the structure of historical explanation, methods and criteria for studying antiquity, the controversy concerning Black Athena.

Credit Hours - 3

Concerning fundamental issues in philosophy of the arts; problems examined include the nature of art and aesthetic experience, the relationship of art objects to the reality they represent, artistic expression, and authenticity.

Credit Hours - 3

Reappraises basic principles assumed in mainstream philosophical canons to reveal their gendered context: public vs. private domains, essential vs. accidental qualities, innate vs. learned behaviour, human rights vs. women’s rights—exposing implications of the fact that both men and women inhabit a social world which is bifurcated by gender; exploring the various connotations of masculinity vs. femininity, and the nature of prejudice.

Credit Hours - 3

Philosophical reflection is conveyed in a variety of genres and styles of expression beyond the treatise form.  African literature written in English and in French translated into English will be examined as a vehicle of social protest and transformative political critique, as spiritual inspiration, as a conveyance for moral precepts and lessons of history.

Credit Hours - 3

A logical and exegetical analysis of the key ideas and concepts that constitute the framework of Aristotle’s philosophy, in the areas of investigative methodology; metaphysics, ethics, humanity, and theology.

Credit Hours - 3

A cross cultural examination of African traditional thought about fundamental aspects of human existence as reflected in conceptions of God, nature, personhood, destiny, morality, the good society.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of nineteenth and twentieth century Western philosophical ideas about moral agency in everyday life, the existence of God, and the nature of the self, based on the works of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, and others. 

Credit Hours - 3

A study of questions arising about the concept of person in seminal texts that focus on the foundations of morality, political theory, cognitive science, psychology, theology, the interface between philosophy of mind, of language, and cross cultural metaphysics.

Credit Hours - 3

The general notion of education is investigated as a process and an activity, through a confrontational examination of the notion of pedagogy, drawing upon both classical and modern texts, such as Plato, J.S. Mill, John Dewey, Franz Fanon.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of Roman art and architecture from their prehistoric Etruscan, Italian, and Greek origins. The aesthetical component of the study reflects various technical achievements and improvements, and involves the assessment of works of art and architecture on the basis of their moral and intellectual value, the issue of artistic creation or insight, stylistics, works of art and mimetic illusionism.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of the issue of Greece’s indebtedness to the civilisations of Egypt and the Near East, it also critically reviews some Afrocentrist theses on the subject and the issue of the racial identity of the Egyptians from the pre-dynastic era in Nubia and Egypt (5500-3100 BC) to the Macedonian occupation of Egypt (332-30 BC).

Credit Hours - 3

This involves a critical evaluation of the sources of information on classes of women, their position and role in the family and society; social and psychological barriers to the human rights of women, especially the law on women, as it relates to their education, employment, marriage, rights of succession and inheritance, participation in public decision-making; women and religion; sexism and male chauvinism in Greek literature; women achievers.

Credit Hours - 3

A study of gender issues with emphasis on women, covering the conception, images and roles of, as well as the assumptions about, women in ancient Roman society, literature and art.