The philosophy department at CSUSB addresses a student’s need for personal growth and understanding through the history of human intellectual thought, and fundamental questions in areas as diverse as logic, science, and ethics.  Philosophy is humanity’s oldest intellectual discipline; its range of application is broad.  Through philosophy one may think about and develop perspectives on topics as diverse as God, science, language, logic, truth, ethics, politics and law.  Typically philosophy leaves aside the doing of the religion, science, etc. and asks fundamental questions about the nature of and justification for the various perspectives.

Degree Requirements (36 units)

Total units for graduation: 120

(Program Code: PHIL)

Lower-division requirements (3)
Basic Logic
PHIL 2100	Critical Thinking Through Symbolic Logic	3
Upper-division requirements (24)
History
PHIL 3210	Ancient Philosophy	3
PHIL 3250	Early Modern Philosophy	3
Value Theory
Six units chosen from:		6
PHIL 3310	Ethics
PHIL 3540	Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 3315	Moral Psychology
PHIL 3330	Social and Political Philosophy
Metaphysics/Knowledge
Six units chosen from:		6
PHIL 3550	Metaphysics
PHIL 3580	Philosophy of Language
PHIL 3510	Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 3410	Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 3560	Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
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
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 (9)
Nine 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.		9
Total Units		36

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.