Updated 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20255
Philosophy, B.A. major
Required Credits: 39
Required GPA: 2.25
I REQUIRED COURSES
Required Core Courses:
History Cycle: Complete the following courses:
- PHIL 3310 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 3320 Modern Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 3330 Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 3340 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Philosophy (3 credits)
II REQUIRED ELECTIVES
Complete 21 elective credits (at least 15 credits must
be Philosophy electives). Up to 6 credits of electives
may be taken from the non-Philosophy courses:
- PHIL 1100 Introduction to Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 2240 Aesthetics (3 credits)
- PHIL 2250 Human Nature (3 credits)
- PHIL 2260 Women and Gender in Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 2290 Topics in Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 2330 War, Peace and Protest (3 credits)
- PHIL 2400 The American Mind (3 credits)
- PHIL 2925 People of the Environment: Environmental Ethics Perspective (3 credits)
- PHIL 2954 Study-Travel, Humanities and the Arts (1-6 credits)
- PHIL 3100 Bioethics (3 credits)
- PHIL 3360 Asian Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 3380 Political Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 4490 Close Readings in Philosophy (1-3 credits)
Select up to 6 credits from the following in
consultation with program directors.
Note: Some courses below require pre-requisites that
are not part of this program.
- ANTH 1110 Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
- ARTH 2551 Art History Survey I (4 credits)
- ARTH 2552 Art History Survey II (4 credits)
- ENGL 2330 American Literature to 1865 (3 credits)
- ENGL 2337 American Literature from 1865 to Present (3 credits)
- HST 2799 Religion in America (3 credits)
- HST 3208 Greece And Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
- HST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
- INST 2201 Creation to Contact (3 credits)
- INST 4207 Indigenous Lifeways (3 credits)
- INST 4900 Social Justice (3 credits)
- LEAD 3500 Theories and Contexts of Leadership (3 credits)
- POL 3180 International Law and Organization (3 credits)
- POL 4200 Constitutional Law (3 credits)
- PSY 3367 Social Psychology (4 credits)
- PSY 3437 Cognitive Psychology (4 credits)
- SOC 2230 Race and Ethnic Relations (3 credits)
- SOC 3210 Social Movements - How to Change the World (3 credits)