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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Philosophy (BA)

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Philosophy Major and Learning Outcomes

Required Courses

Foundational

PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking Credits: 3
PL - 225 Logic Credits: 3

One course from the Ancient period

PL - 350 The Republic of Plato Credits: 3
PL - 355 The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Credits: 3

One course from the Medieval period

PL - 345 The Confessions of St. Augustine Credits: 3
PL - 360 The Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas Credits: 3

One course from the Modern period

PL - 375 The Age of Reason Credits: 3
PL - 410 Metaphysics: the Search for Synthesis Credits: 3

One course from the Contemporary period

PL - 340 Existentialism Credits: 3
PL - 390 Seminar in Creativity & Beauty Credits: 3
PL - 438 Applied Ethics Credits: 3

Contemporary Ethics Seminars

One of the following:
PL - 473 Alcohol Credits: 3
PL - 475 Friendship, Love and Sexuality Credits: 3
PL - 476 Happiness Credits: 3
PL - 477 Faith and Tolerance Credits: 3
PL - 478 Philosophy of Work and Leisure Credits: 3
PL - 479 The Ethics of Personal Success Credits: 3

Advanced Study in Philosophy

TH - 451 Integrating Seminar in Theology Credits: 3

Controlled Electives

four courses, in philosophy or related fields, are chosen by the student, with the prior approval of the philosophy faculty

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