Philosophy, B.A.

Complete One 100-Level Philosophy Cornerstone Course

• PHL 100/110 - Gods, Souls, and Bodies (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/111 - Questioning Love and Desire (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/112 - Death: Philosophical Questions and Answers (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/113 - What Does it All Mean? (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/114 - Our Bodies, Ourselves (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/115 - Friendship, Love, and Sex (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/116 - What You Thought You Knew (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/117 - Mind, Body, Self, and Science (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/118 - Questions of Culture and Value (Core/First-Year Seminar)
• PHL 100/119 - The Examined Life (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Complete One Philosophy Moral Inquiry Course

Only one Philosophy Moral Inquiry course may count toward the major.

• PHL 221 - Ethics and the Good Life
• PHL 222 - Freedom and the Just Society
• PHL 223 - Introduction to Moral Reasoning
• PHL 224 - Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHL 230 - Environmental Ethics OR

• ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics  

• PHL 235 - Biomedical Ethics
• PHL 236 - Ethics and the Arts

Complete One Ancient to Medieval Philosophy Course

• PHL 341 - Plato
• PHL 342 - Aristotle
• PHL 343 - Socrates
• PHL 353 - Medieval Philosophy
• PHL 354 - Thomas Aquinas and His Contemporaries

Complete One Modern to Contemporary Philosophy Course

• PHL 254 - Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion
• PHL 361 - Descartes to Hume
• PHL 363 - Kant
• PHL 364 - Hegel and Marx
• PHL 371 - Existentialism
• PHL 372 - Heidegger and His Influence
• PHL 375 - Foucault: Power, Truth, Subjectivity

Complete Elementary Logic

• PHL 241 - Elementary Logic

Complete Five Philosophy Elective Courses

(PHL 301 , PHL 401 , and PHL 421  may not count as electives.)

• LC 342 - Learning Community: Yoga, Mindfulness and Indian Philosophy
• PHL 243 - This is What Feminism Looks Like
• PHL 251 - Political Philosophy
• PHL 252 - Minds, Brains and Technology
• PHL 253 - Asian Philosophies
• PHL 254 - Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion
• PHL 262 - Philosophy of Film
• PHL 265 - Readings in Contemporary Thought
• PHL 266 - Topics in Philosophy
• PHL 270 - Freedom, Self, and Reality
• PHL 283 - Aesthetics
• PHL 285 - Philosophy of Science
• PHL 286 - Genetics and Human Nature: Born that Way or Becoming Who We Are?
• PHL 305 - Hermeneutics
• PHL 307 - Philosophy of Religion
• PHL 332 - Philosophy of Knowledge
• PHL 351 - Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
• PHL 475 - Internship in Philosophy
• PHL 490 - Directed Study
• Can take additional Ancient to Medieval courses from the list above.
• Can take additional Modern to Contemporary courses from the list above.

Complete the Capstone Sequence in Philosophy

• PHL 301 - Research Methods in Philosophy (Taken Junior Year. Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement)
• PHL 401 - Senior Philosophy Colloquium I (Taken the Fall of Senior Year)
• PHL 421 - Senior Philosophy Colloquium II (Taken the Spring of Senior Year)