Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the difference between a Distance Learning course, a Hybrid course, and a Web-Enhanced Course?
A: Distance Learning courses are 100% Online via Blackboard; Hybrid courses are 50% face-to-face (in the classroom) and 50% Online via Blackboard; Web-Enhanced courses are traditional face-to-face classes with an Online Blackboard component that may include some required "for credit work", but may also be strictly informational, e.g. course syllabus, course calendar, hand-outs, links to online resources, etc.
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Q: When a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
A: What do YOU think?
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Q: Why?
A: Why not?
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Q: Why are you here?
A: Why are YOU here?
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Q: What can I know?
A: Question that opens Philosophy of Knowledge
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Q: What ought I to do?
A: Question that opens the study of Ethics
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Q: What may I hope?
A: Question that opens Theology, or our understanding of Being Here in Time
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Q: What does it mean to be a human being?
A: The primary question of Enlightenment and Philosophical Anthropology
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Contact Us: Do you have questions about Philosophy? E-mail the HCC Philosophy Discipline Committee.
Answers (not questions) are provided by reply e-mail. Our FAQ address is: HCC.PHIL.FAQS@GMAIL.COM