Requirements (45 units)

Total units for graduation: 120

Requirements for the B.A. in Philosophy 

(Program Code: PHIL)

Lower-division requirements (3)
Basic Logic
PHIL 2100	Critical Thinking Through Symbolic Logic	3
Upper-division requirements (27)
History
PHIL 3210	Ancient Philosophy	3
PHIL 3250	Early Modern Philosophy	3
Intermediate Logic
PHIL 3100	Predicate Logic	3
Value Theory
Six units chosen from:		6
PHIL 3315	Moral Psychology
PHIL 3310	Ethics
PHIL 3330	Social and Political Philosophy
Metaphysics/Language
Three units chosen from:		3
PHIL 3550	Metaphysics
PHIL 3580	Philosophy of Language
Knowledge/Science
Three units chosen from:		3
PHIL 3510	Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 3520	Philosophy of Science
PHIL 3530	Social Epistemology
19th and 20th Century European Philosophy
Three units chosen from:		3
PHIL 3610	Phenomenology
PHIL 3620	Existentialism
PHIL 3640	Nineteenth Century European Philosophy
Advanced Issues
Three units chosen from:		3
PHIL 4100	Advanced Issues in Logic
PHIL 4200	Advanced Issues in History of Philosophy
PHIL 4300	Advanced Issues in Value Theory
PHIL 4500	Advanced Issues in Metaphysics and Knowledge
PHIL 4900	Advanced Topics in Philosophy
Electives (15)
Fifteen units chosen from philosophy courses. Elective units may include philosophy courses taken to satisfy General Education requirements. No more than 6 elective units from philosophy courses numbered 1005 – 3099. In consultation with the chair, philosophy majors are encouraged to include philosophy courses from study abroad in their elective category. Students with philosophy as a double major may complete the elective requirements for the philosophy major by taking up to nine units in non-philosophy courses that are related to the philosophy major. These customized non-philosophy elective packages need to form a coherent plan of study within the philosophy major and should be constructed in consultation with a faculty advisor; the plan of the elective package then needs to be submitted to and approved by the department chair.		15

Critical Thinking: Majors need not satisfy the GE Critical Thinking Requirement with PHIL 2100; but students who fulfill the requirement with PHIL 2100 thereby satisfy the prerequisite for PHIL 3100.