Philosophy

Philosophy
BA
Hours47 Credit Hours
MAPMajor Academic Plan

Program Requirements

It is strongly recommended that StDev 317, a 1-credit-hour course, be taken at the end of the sophomore year or the beginning of the junior year. Because liberal arts degrees provide preparation in a variety of useful fields rather than a single career track, this course is recommended to help liberal arts students focus on specific educational and occupational goals and to identify the career options or educational opportunities available to them. The course will introduce them to the resources needed for accessing information about graduate schools, internships, careers, and career development. Students will learn basic employment strategies, including the steps necessary for obtaining employment related to their own specialty.
For each R course, you may only take one class on any particular figure or topic. For instance, if you wish to take multiple classes of Phil 320R: Studies in Ancient Philosophy, you may only take Plato once, but you may then take Aristotle or Stoicism or any of the other figures or topics listed under Phil 320R.
requirement 1 Complete 4 courses
Sources and Methods courses:
requirement 2 Complete 1 course
requirement 3 Complete 1 course
requirement 4 Complete 1 course
Core Topics in Western Philosophy:
requirement 5 Complete 1 course
Complete one registration of the following Historical Periods course:
requirement 6 Complete 1 course
Complete one registration of the following Historical Periods course:
requirement 7 Complete 1 course
Complete one of the following Historical Period courses (excluding the two specific registrations used to complete the above requirements):
PHIL 313R - History of Ethics 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PHIL 320R - Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PHIL 330R - Studies in Medieval Philosophy 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PHIL 340R - Studies in Modern Philosophy 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PHIL 350R - Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PHIL 360R - Non-Western Philosophy 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
requirement 8 Complete 1 course
Complete one of the following Values and Conduct courses:
requirement 9 Complete 2 courses
Complete two of the following Knowledge and Reality courses:
requirement 10 Complete 6.0 hours from the following option(s)
Complete 6 additional hours (excluding 110, 150, 499R) [with no more than 3 hours of Phil 449R: Philosophy Lecture Series and/or Phil 495R: Directed Readings (1-3:Arr:Arr)]. Students must have a total of 27 credit hours of upper-division course work (300-level or above) in the major.
option 10.1 Complete up to 6.0 hours from the following course(s)
PHIL 449R - Philosophical Lecture Series 1.0
PHIL 495R - Directed Readings in Philosophy 3.0v
PHIL 313R - Utilitarianism 3.0
PHIL 313R - History of Ethics 3.0
PHIL 320R - Pre-Socratics 3.0
PHIL 320R - Aristotle 3.0
PHIL 320R - Greek Ethics 3.0
PHIL 320R - Greek Political Theory 3.0
PHIL 320R - Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 320R - Socrates 3.0
PHIL 320R - Neo-Platonism 3.0
PHIL 320R - Greek Science 3.0
PHIL 320R - Greek Epistemology 3.0
PHIL 320R - Topics in Greek Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 320R - Plato 3.0
PHIL 320R - Stoicism 3.0
PHIL 320R - Greek Metaphysics 3.0
PHIL 320R - Helenistic Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 330R - Studies in Medieval Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 330R - Aquinas 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Ethics 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Metaphysics 3.0
PHIL 330R - Topics in Medieval Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 330R - Duns Scotus 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Science 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Political Theory 3.0
PHIL 330R - Augustine 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Arabic Philosophers 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Epistemology 3.0
PHIL 330R - Medieval Philosophy and Religion 3.0
PHIL 340R - Kant 3.0
PHIL 340R - German Idealism 3.0
PHIL 340R - Kierkegaard 3.0
PHIL 340R - British Idealism 3.0
PHIL 340R - Topics in Modern Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 340R - Spinoza 3.0
PHIL 340R - Hobbes 3.0
PHIL 340R - Berkeley 3.0
PHIL 340R - Hegel 3.0
PHIL 340R - Nietzsche 3.0
PHIL 340R - Modern Political Theory 3.0
PHIL 340R - Continental Rationalism 3.0
PHIL 340R - Leibniz 3.0
PHIL 340R - Locke 3.0
PHIL 340R - Hume 3.0
PHIL 340R - Schopenhauer 3.0
PHIL 340R - Nietzsche and Freud 3.0
PHIL 340R - J. S. Mill 3.0
PHIL 340R - Studies in Modern Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 340R - Descartes 3.0
PHIL 340R - British Empiricism 3.0
PHIL 340R - Descartes and Locke 3.0
PHIL 350R - Dufrenne 3.0
PHIL 350R - Marion 3.0
PHIL 350R - Philosophy of Logic 3.0
PHIL 350R - Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 350R - Dewey 0.0
PHIL 350R - Philosophy of History 3.0
PHIL 350R - Heidegger's Later Works 0.0
PHIL 350R - Contemporary Political Theory 3.0
PHIL 350R - William James 0.0
PHIL 350R - Frege 3.0
PHIL 350R - Whitehead 3.0
PHIL 350R - Existentialism 3.0
PHIL 350R - Philosophy of Cognitive Science 3.0
PHIL 350R - Heidegger 3.0
PHIL 350R - Merleau-Ponty 3.0
PHIL 350R - Derrida 3.0
PHIL 350R - Contemporary French Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 350R - Lyotard 0.0
PHIL 350R - Topics in Contemporary Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 350R - Hannah Arendt 0.0
PHIL 350R - Philosophy of Psychology 3.0
PHIL 350R - Peirce 0.0
PHIL 350R - Russell 3.0
PHIL 350R - Truth 3.0
PHIL 350R - Logical Positivism 3.0
PHIL 350R - Hermeneutics 3.0
PHIL 350R - Ricoeur 3.0
PHIL 350R - Sartre 3.0
PHIL 350R - Gadamer 3.0
PHIL 350R - Foucault 3.0
PHIL 350R - Oakeshott 3.0
PHIL 350R - Bergson 0.0
PHIL 350R - Philosophy of Social Science 3.0
PHIL 350R - Heidegger's Being and Time 0.0
PHIL 350R - Contemporary Analytical Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 350R - Pragmatism 0.0
PHIL 350R - Moore 3.0
PHIL 350R - Wittgenstein 3.0
PHIL 350R - Continental Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 350R - Phenomenology 3.0
PHIL 350R - Husserl 3.0
PHIL 350R - Levinas 3.0
PHIL 360R - Buddhism 3.0
PHIL 360R - Non-Western Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 360R - Hindu Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 360R - Non-Western Philosophy 3.0
PHIL 405 - Advanced Logic and Metalogic 3.0
PHIL 413R - Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Relativism 3.0
PHIL 413R - Deontology 3.0
PHIL 413R - Medical Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Ethics of War and Peace 3.0
PHIL 413R - The Good Life 3.0
PHIL 413R - Care Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Meta-ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Consequentialism 3.0
PHIL 413R - Environmental Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Moral Psychology 3.0
PHIL 413R - Theoretical Foundations of Business Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Topics in Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Skepticism 3.0
PHIL 413R - Virtue Theory 3.0
PHIL 413R - Media and Cyber Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Applied Ethics 3.0
PHIL 413R - Ethical Argumentation 3.0
PHIL 414R - Philosophy of Music 3.0
PHIL 414R - Contemporary Art Theory 3.0
PHIL 414R - Philosophy of Theater 3.0
PHIL 414R - Philosophy and Literature 3.0
PHIL 414R - Contemporary Art Theory 3.0
PHIL 414R - Topics in the Advanced Philosophy of Art, Architecture, Music, and Film 3.0
PHIL 414R - Philosophy of Architecture 3.0
PHIL 414R - Film Criticism and Theory 3.0
PHIL 414R - Philosophy of Art 3.0
PHIL 415 - Philosophy of Religion 3.0
PHIL 416 - Philosophy of Law 3.0
PHIL 420 - Philosophy of Language 3.0
PHIL 421 - Metaphysics 3.0
PHIL 422 - Epistemology 3.0
PHIL 423R - History and Philosophy of Science 3.0
PHIL 423R - History of Medicine 3.0
PHIL 423R - Antiquity to Present 3.0
PHIL 424 - Philosophy of Mind 3.0
PHIL 449R - Philosophical Lecture Series 1.0
PHIL 490 - Senior Seminar 1.0
PHIL 495R - Directed Readings in Philosophy 3.0v
PHIL 501R - Graduate Seminar 5.0v
option 10.2 Complete up to 6.0 hours from the following course(s)
requirement 11 Complete 3.0 hours from the following course(s)
requirement 12 Complete 1 course
Senior Seminar:
Program Outcomes

History and Value of Philosophy

Students will be able to identify major philosophical figures, texts, and movements, and understand their historical context, their philosophical interrelations, and their importance.

Assessed 2017

Critical and Effective Reading, Writing, and Communicating

Students will be able to read and think critically about philosophical text; write clear, logically sound, and well-researched essays; and effectively discuss and present philosophical topics.

Assessed 2017

Logic and Metalogic

Students will be able to construct, symbolize, and evaluate proofs in syllogistic logic, truth-functional logic, first-order (quantificational) logic, set-theory and Peano arithmetic; and understand relevant metalogical results.

Assessed 2017

Philosophical and Ethical Applications

Students will be able to use philosophical knowledge and skills to solve theoretical, practical, and ethical problems, and to integrate philosophical principles with religious and moral convictions.

Assessed 2017

Career Preparation

Students will be prepared for further education and employment using their philosophical skills and knowledge.

Assessed 2017