2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20253

Philosophy, B.A. major

Required Credits: 39
Required GPA: 2.25

I REQUIRED COURSES

Required Core Courses:

• PHIL 2220 Ethics (3 credits)
• PHIL 2230 Logic (3 credits)

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 Philosophies of Non-Violence (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)