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Philosophy, BA - Interdisciplinary Emphasis

36 credit hours

The Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with an interdisciplinary emphasis prepares students to engage in occupations that encourage or require critical reading, writing, and communication skills. It prepares students for graduate training in fields such as law, business and medicine due to the extremely high scores of philosophy majors on graduate exams. It also enhances students’ understanding of their own fields by addressing fundamental questions not covered elsewhere. Given philosophy’s central role in a humanistic education, it also prepares students for life as well-rounded individuals and citizens of a global community.

Requirements

Three required courses:

PHL 15000Introduction to Philosophy

3
PHL 31100Ancient Philosophy

3
PHL 31200Medieval Philosophy

3

One course selected from the following options:

PHL 21500Traditional Logic

3
PHL 21600Modern Symbolic Logic

3

One course selected from the following options:

PHL 31300Modern Philosophy

3
HIST 34200The Civilization of Industrialism

3

One course selected from the following options:

PHL 21400Ethics

3
PHL 24000Bioethics

3
PHL 25000Contemporary Ethics

3
PHL 25201Dante and the Virtues

3
PHL 30000The Natural Law

3
PHL 34000Topics in Bioethics

3

One course selected from the following options:

PHL 26500Philosophy of Science

3
PHL 32500Philosophy of Religion

3
PHL 34500Metaphysics

3
PHL 35500Epistemology

3
PHL 36500Topics in Philosophy of Science

3
PHL 37000Philosophy of Mind

3

Two courses selected from the following options:

PHL 10200Moral Life: A Study in Ethics

3
PHL 14000Philosophy of Love

3
PHL 17000Philosophy of Human Nature: Mind, Soul and Body

3
PHL 18000-18099Selected Topics in Philosophy

3
PHL 21500Traditional Logic

3
PHL 24000Bioethics

3
PHL 26000Philosophy of Art

3
PHL 28000-28099Selected Topics in Philosophy

3
PHL 30000The Natural Law

3
PHL 30500Political Philosophy

3
PHL 31800Asian Philosophy

3
PHL 32500Philosophy of Religion

3
PHL 34000Topics in Bioethics

3
PHL 35000Philosophy of Law

3
PHL 37000Philosophy of Mind

3

Three courses selected from the following options:

ANT 31700Social and Cultural Change

3
ANT 32400The Anthropology of Religion

3
ANT 40500Historical Archaeology

3
ANT 42000/SOC 42000Sociocultural Theory

3
ARTH 22200History of Western Art to 1300

3
ARTH 22400History of Western Art from 1300

3
ARTH 35400Nineteenth-Century Art

3
ARTH 35600Baroque Art

3
ARTH 35700Ancient Art

3
ARTH 35800Medieval Art

3
ARTH 36100Twentieth-Century Art/Modern

3
ARTH 36300Early Modern Gender Studies

3
ARTH 36401-36499Topics in Non-Western Art

3
ARTH 38300Renaissance Art

3
ARTH 38400Classical Myth

3
ARTH 38900Art Theory and Criticism

3
ARTH 41000Research Methods of Art History

3
AST 20100The American Promise

3
BSC 46400Evolution

3
COM 10200Public Debate

3
COM 30200Seminar in Professional Practice and Ethics

3
COM 37000History of Film

3
COM 37600Asian Cinema

3
CSC 40300Computer Architecture

3
CSC 40800Organization of Programming Languages

3
CSP 35000History of Traditional Chinese Civilization

3
CSP 35100History of Modern Chinese Civilization

3
CSP 37000Contemporary China: China in Revolution

3
CSP 40000Ming and Qing China: 1368-1839

3
CSP 40100Modern China: From the Opium Wars to National Revolution, 1839-1911

3
ECON 23010Survey of Economics

3
ECON 23020Principles of Microeconomics

3
ECON 23030Principles of Macroeconomics

3
ECON 33035Current Economic and Social Issues

3
ECON 33055Economics and the Environment

3
ECON 33060History of Economic Thought

3
ECON 33065Seminar in Economic Federalism

3
ECON 43078Econometrics

3
ENGL 20100World Literature I

3
ENGL 20200World Literature II

3
ENGL 25600Survey of Greek Literature

3
ENGL 27600African-American Literature

3
ENGL 27800Latino Literature

3
ENGL 20500British Literature I

3
ENGL 20600British Literature II

3
ENGL 30900The Novel

3
ENGL 33200Chaucer

3
ENGL 33300Shakespeare

3
ENGL 33800Medieval English Literature

3
ENGL 33900Early Modern Literature

3
ENGL 34200English Romantic Literature

3
ENGL 3430019th Century Literature

3
ENGL 40400History of the English Language

3
ENGL 45400Senior Thesis

3
GS 30000Gender Theory

3
HIST 16100The Ancient and Medieval World

3
HIST 20100Historical Methods

3
HIST 33100History of Gender in America

3
HIST 33200A Biography of the Constitution

3
HIST 33400History of Race in America

3
HIST 34100Church and State in Early Modern Europe

3
HIST 34200The Civilization of Industrialism

3
HIST 34300The Soviet Union and European Communism

3
HIST 34400War and Society in the Twentieth Century

3
HIST 36300Revolution in the Modern World

3
IR 35000International Relations Theory

3
MGMT 26061Business Law I

3
MGMT 36033Business Analytics I

3
MGMT 38900Game Theory

3
MGMT 46050Managerial Ethics

3
MIS 44020Information Systems Analysis and Design

3
MTH 22100Discrete Structures

3
MTH 24100Statistics for Natural Science

3
MTH 28500Introduction to Advanced Mathematics

3
MTH 31100Differential Equations

3
MTH 31300History of Mathematics

3
MTH 32000Algebraic Structures

3
MTH 35100Numerical Methods

3
MTH 37000Advanced Calculus

3
PHL 10200Moral Life: A Study in Ethics

3
PHL 14000Philosophy of Love

3
PHL 17000Philosophy of Human Nature: Mind, Soul and Body

3
PHL 18000-18099Selected Topics in Philosophy

3
PHL 21500Traditional Logic

3
PHL 24000Bioethics

3
PHL 26000Philosophy of Art

3
PHL 28000-28099Selected Topics in Philosophy

3
PHL 30000The Natural Law

3
PHL 30500Political Philosophy

3
PHL 31800Asian Philosophy

3
PHL 32500Philosophy of Religion

3
PHL 34000Topics in Bioethics

3
PHL 35000Philosophy of Law

3
PHL 37000Philosophy of Mind

3
PS 30000Comparative Analysis

3
PS 30800Debate

3
PS 31100American Constitutional Law

3
PS 33050Political Economy

3
PS 36000Civil Liberties

3
PSY 30400Basic Research Methods

3
PSY 30900Personality

3
PSY 32500Behavioral Neuroscience

3
PSY 33100Cognitive Psychology

3
PSY 33400Social Psychology

3
REC 20100Fundamentals of Interpretation

3
REL 20100History of Christianity

3
REL 23000Introduction to Asian Religions

3
REL 30000Religion, Science, and Faith

3
REL 30500The Psychology of Religion

3
REL 31000Islam and the West

3
REL 31800Asian Myth and Religion

3
REL 32000The Christian Faith

3
REL 32600Faith and Reason

3
SCI 21200History of Science

3
SCI 21400Ethical Problems in Science

3
SOC 42000/ANT 42000Sociocultural Theory

3
Note: No duplication of coursework is allowed.