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   Undergraduate Catalog :: College of Arts and Sciences :: Philosophy
 
  

Bachelor of Arts: Philosophy

Degree Requirements

Philosophy majors are required to complete 30 credit hours of philosophy coursework. Required courses include:
  • Philosophy 210 Foundations of Philosophy (3)
  • Philosophy 222 Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method (3)
  • Philosophy 310WI Ancient Philosophy (3)
  • Philosophy 320WI Descartes to Hume (3)
  • Philosophy 321 Ethics (3)
No more than nine credit hours of the 30 required hours may be at the 100- or 200-level. To graduate with a major in philosophy, students must pass all courses included in the 30 credit hours required for the degree with a grade of C or higher. This requirement also applies to transfer courses.

Students who intend to do graduate work in philosophy are urged to take Philosophy 423: Symbolic Logic, and to develop reading knowledge of a foreign language. In most cases, it would be best to know German or French.

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