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  • PBH 201: Public Health Administration in the U.S. Healthcare System

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is designed to provide a foundation for understanding the organization of the U.S. healthcare system. The role of public health in the administration of health care services and strategies to improve healthcare efficiency are critically examined. Also addressed is the quality and cost of health care and how policy, planning, ethical issues, and public and private systems can and do impact the health of individuals and populations.
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  • PBH 202: Environmental Health

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course examines the impact of the environment on human health and explores strategies used by public health professionals to minimize negative environmental effects. Environmental health hazards, exposure pathways and control, and the influence of climate change on individual and population health are discussed.
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  • PHI 100: Introduction to Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    A general introduction to philosophical issues and the methods of philosophical investigation. The course may be essentially historical in its approach or essentially problem-focused. Readings may be drawn from 'big names' in the history of philosophy (e.g., Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Mill, and others) or from contemporary 'state-of-the-discipline' sources, or from both. Issues will include some from the following, among others: freewill and determinism; ethical relativism v ethical objectivism; the existence and rationality of belief in the existence of a god; the mind and body problem and the problem of other minds; the nature of persons and the possibility of artificial persons (thinking computers); applied philosophy issues such as the problem of abortion, the problem of same-sex marriage, the problem of death penalty.
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  • PHI 101: Introduction to Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is an introduction to the history of the philosophical examination of ethics from ancient Greece through contemporary thought in Western Philosophy will examined. Attention will also be given to non-Western ethical traditions (Confucianism, Buddhism, for example) that began even earlier than well-documented Western ethics. The substance of dominant varieties of objectivist views such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics will come under our scrutiny. Similar attention will be given to relativist/subjectivist opposition to these various objectivist views. An on-going focal point for all of the inquiries in the course will be the "debate" between supporters of objectivist views and supporters of "anti"-objectivist views as this "debate" has progressed through history. The course will also include discussion of the proper relation between the government and the diverse substantive ethical perspectives of individuals in a society such as the United States that is intentionally ethically pluralistic.
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  • PHI 115: 21st Century Ethical Issues

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Philosophical methods will be used to examine some of the most controversial contemporary ethical and social issues. Among the issues that will be discussed are the following: Cloning and genetic engineering; decriminalization of currently banned drugs; transgenderism and gender non-conformity; abortion; animal rights, capital punishment; euthanasia and assisted suicide; affirmative action/preferential treatment programs.
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  • PHI 120: Ethical Issues Affecting Consumers and the Health Care Professions

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course addresses the needs of the health care consumer and the provider alike. Stemming from a philosophical base, this course will examine controversies emerging from rapid technological advances and modern health care practice. Conflicts discussed range from the person's right to choose or refuse a particular course of treatment to issues of euthanasia, genetic research, and human experimentation. Students are encouraged to participate in discussions of ethical problems reported in the popular media and to develop a personal decision-making system which can be applied to a variety of ethical issues. Emphasis is on critical analysis and the incorporation of theory to ethical deliberations. The course is interactive, therefore, open discussion format and familiarity with use of the computer is essential.
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  • PHI 215: Comparative Religions

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    An examination and study of the historical backgrounds and present day vitality of the major living religions of the world. Special attention will be focused on the study of ideas, cultic and ethical practices, and philosophical systems of: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Confucianism, Shintoism, Judaism, Sikhism and Taoism.
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  • PHY 115: Technical Physics

    4.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is a one-semester, algebra-based overview of topics in introductory physics designed for students in the life sciences. Topics include basic principles of motion, mechanics, statics, work and energy, fluid mechanics, sound and waves, thermal physics, electricity, magnetism, light, and optics. The weekly laboratory is designed to reinforce material introduced in lecture.
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  • PHY 120: Introduction to Astronomy

    4.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Introduction to Astronomy is a one-semester college-level course in basic astronomy. The course may be used as a laboratory science elective with basic algebraic applications. The course explores a broad range astronomical concepts and principles in ten major areas: understanding the sky, apparent motions of the planets and the sun, telescopes and accompanying technology, basic structure and behavior of atoms, origin and analysis of light, origin of the solar system, internal structure and behavior of the sun, lifecycle of all stellar classes, origin and structure of galaxies, and cosmology. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on the implementation of the scientific method, the evidence that astronomers use to support their conclusions, and the importance of astronomy. (Night-time observing is required). This course is subject to a course fee. This course is subject to a course fee. Refer to http://mc3.edu/adm-fin-aid/paying/tuition/course-f ees for current rates.
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  • PHY 121: General Physics I

    4.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course, designed for liberal arts and life science majors, is an algebra-based approach to the experimental and analytical study of Newtonian mechanics and thermal physics, emphasizing one-and two-dimensional kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, energy, momentum, conservation theorems, center of mass, rotational dynamics, static equilibrium, thermal properties of materials, calorimetry, the laws of thermodynamics, and heat engines. This course is subject to a course fee.
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