BA in Philosophy (43 hours*)

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1. Complete the following sources and methods courses:
   PHIL 201 : History of Philosophy 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 201 : History of Philosophy 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand, Su on demand; Honors also.
   DESCRIPTION:	Western civilization from Greek antiquity to Renaissance, primarily from perspective of philosophy; exploring fundamental questions in human experience; examining formative events in history; understanding value of important texts.
   
   
   PHIL 202 : History of Philosophy 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 202 : History of Philosophy 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand, Su on demand; Honors also.
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 201.
   DESCRIPTION:	Western civilization from Renaissance to present, primarily from perspective of philosophy; exploring fundamental questions in human experience; examining formative events in history; understanding value of important texts.
   
   
   PHIL 205 : Deductive Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 205 : Deductive Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand.
   DESCRIPTION:	History and use of syllogistic and propositional logic; evaluating arguments with Venn diagrams, truth tables, and Copi-style proofs and proof strategies.
   
   
   PHIL 300 : Philosophical Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 300 : Philosophical Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand, Su on demand; Honors also.
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 150, 205; or equivalents.
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing philosophical papers about philosophical texts or problems. Research methods in philosophy. Library research paper.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Advanced Writing requirement. No course challenges accepted.
   
   
   PHIL 305 : Predicate Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 305 : Predicate Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand.
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 205.
   DESCRIPTION:	History and use of predicate logic; evaluating arguments with counterexamples and proofs; informal mathematical proofs.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Languages of Learning requirement.
   
   
2. Complete two of the following historical periods courses (should not be in the same period):
   PHIL 320R : Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 320R : Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 201.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
               : Aristotle.
               : Buddhism.
               : Chinese Philosophy.
               : Church Fathers.
               : Greek Epistemology.
               : Greek Ethics.
               : Greek Logic.
               : Greek Metaphysics.
               : Greek Philosophy of Religion.
               : Greek Political Theory.
               : Greek Science.
               : Helenistic Philosophy.
               : Hindu Philosophy.
               : Neo-Platonism.
               : Plato.
               : Plotinus.
               : Pre-Socratics.
               : Socrates.
               : Stoicism.
               : Topics in Greek Philosophy.
   
   
   PHIL 330R : Studies in Medieval Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 330R : Studies in Medieval Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 201.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
               : Anselm.
               : Aquinas.
               : Augustine.
               : Averroes.
               : Boethius.
               : Bonaventure.
               : Duns Scotus.
               : Maimonides.
               : Medieval Arabic Philosophers.
               : Medieval Epistemology.
               : Medieval Ethics.
               : Medieval Jewish Philosophers.
               : Medieval Logic.
               : Medieval Metaphysics.
               : Medieval Philosophy and Religion.
               : Medieval Political Theory.
               : Medieval Science.
               : Meister Eckhart.
               : Topics in Medieval Philosophy.
               : William of Ockham.
   
   
   PHIL 340R : Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 340R : Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 202.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
               : Alexander.
               : Bentham.
               : Bergson.
               : Berkeley.
               : Bosanquet.
               : Bradley.
               : British Empiricism.
               : British Idealism.
               : Continental Rationalism.
               : Descartes and Locke.
               : Descartes.
               : Dewey.
               : German Idealism.
               : Hegel.
               : Hobbes.
               : Hume.
               : J. S. Mill.
               : Kant.
               : Kierkegaard.
               : Leibniz.
               : Locke.
               : Modern Political Theory.
               : Nietzsche and Freud.
               : Nietzsche.
               : Peirce.
               : Pragmatism.
               : Schopenhauer.
               : Spinoza.
               : Topics in Modern Philosophy.
               : Utilitarianism.
               : William James.
   
   
   PHIL 350R : Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 350R : Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
               : Contemporary Analytical Philosophy.
               : Contemporary French Philosophy.
               : Contemporary Political Theory.
               : Continental Philosophy.
               : Derrida.
               : Dufrenne.
               : Existentialism.
               : Foucault.
               : Frege.
               : Gadamer.
               : Heidegger.
               : Hermeneutics.
               : Husserl.
               : Leotard.
               : Levinas.
               : Logical Positivism.
               : Marion.
               : Merleau-Ponty.
               : Moore.
               : Oakeshott.
               : Ordinary Language of Philosophy.
               : Phenomenology.
               : Philosophy and Film.
               : Philosophy and Literature.
               : Philosophy of Architecture.
               : Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
               : Philosophy of History.
               : Philosophy of Mind.
               : Philosophy of Psychology.
               : Philosophy of Social Science.
               : Philosophy of Theology.
               : Ricoeur.
               : Russell.
               : Sartre.
               : Topics in Contemporary Philosophy.
               : Truth.
               : Whitehead.
               : Wittgenstein.
   
   
3. Complete one of the following values and conduct courses:
   PHIL 213 : Introduction to Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 213 : Introduction to Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp on demand.
   DESCRIPTION:	Nature and justification of moral standards, beliefs, and decisions.
   
   
   PHIL 214 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 214 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   DESCRIPTION:	The experience of beauty in nature, in literature, and in the arts.
   
   
   PHIL 215 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 215 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   DESCRIPTION:	Existence and nature of God, God's foreknowledge and man's free will, faith, immortality, and religious experience and language.
   
   
   PHIL 218 : Science and Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 218 : Science and Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Irregularly (check with department).
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Epistemological and metaphysical similarities and differences undergirding historical problems in science and religion. Nature and effects of past reconciliations; possibility and desirability of current reconciliations.
   
   
   PHIL 413 : Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 413 : Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, Sp on demand.
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or problems.
   
   
   PHIL 414R : Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 414R : Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   PREREQUISITE:	one philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics in aesthetics.
   
   
   PHIL 416 : Philosophy of Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 416 : Philosophy of Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	The relation between natural and enacted law; theories of punishment; utilitarian and nonutilitarian theories of law; liberty.
   
   
4. Complete two of the following knowledge and reality courses:
   PHIL 405 : Metalogic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 405 : Metalogic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 305.
   DESCRIPTION:	Completeness and undecidability of predicate logic; incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory; treatment of related philosophical topics and of nonclassical topics as time permits.
   
   
   PHIL 415 : Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 415 : Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or problems.
   
   
   PHIL 420 : Philosophy of Language. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 420 : Philosophy of Language. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Meaning and reference, synonymy, metaphor, exemplification, translation; linguistic, artistic, and perceptual symbol systems.
   
   
   PHIL 421 : Metaphysics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 421 : Metaphysics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, Sp on demand.
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic categories of being: appearance and reality, law, causality, space, time, eternity, deity.
   
   
   PHIL 422 : Epistemology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 422 : Epistemology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W, Su on demand.
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Meaning, limits, and justification of knowledge.
   
   
   PHIL 423 : (Phil 423--Physcs 314) History and Philosophy of Science. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 423 : (Phil 423--Physcs 314) History and Philosophy of Science. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W; Honors also.
   PREREQUISITE:	Phy S 100 or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Scientific explanation, concepts, and models. Philosophical assumptions and criteria for theory selection, as exemplified by historical development of basic ideas in science.
   
   
5. Complete 12 additional hours (excluding 499R) (with no more than three hours of 449R). Students must have a total of 27 credit hours of upper-division course work (300-level or above) in the major.
6. Complete the following seminar:
   PHIL 490 : Senior Seminar. (1:1.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 490 : Senior Seminar. (1:1.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Review of philosophical principles and advanced writing experiences culminating in a publishable paper.
   
   

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