Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Philosophy Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Philosophy Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> Political Science, Public Administration, and Philosophy 

18 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

Philosophy provides an excellent field of study for students planning to seek advanced degrees in law, philosophy, theology, politics, and other areas. The critical thinking and communications skills stressed in philosophy are a valuable complement to most any career or field of study. Philosophy is an excellent complementary second major (30 credits) or minor (18 credits).

No more than six hours of 100-level or 200-level coursework can be counted toward the minor.

Required Courses (9 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
PHIL 205 - Introduction to Logic or
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 305 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3

 

PHIL 350 - History of Philosophy I or

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
HUM 350 - History of Philosophy I

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3

 

PHIL 351 - History of Philosophy II or

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
HUM 351 - History of Philosophy II

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3

Electives (9 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Historical Inquiry; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 201 - Introduction to Ethics

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PHIL 205 - Introduction to Logic
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 251 - Introduction to the Study of Religions

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 299 - Special Topics is Philosophy
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 304 - Philosophy of Art
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 305 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 312 - Business Ethics
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 335 - Cognitive Science of Religion
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 344 - Contemporary Philosophy
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 361 - Special Problems in Philosophy
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 362 - Interdisciplinary Problems
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 363 - Bioethics
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 364 - Gender and Philosophy

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHIL 365 - Sexual Ethics
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHIL 376 - Philosophies and Religions of Asia

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 377 - Introduction to Cognitive Science

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science-BS


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 413 - Philosophy of Religion
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3

 

PHIL 415 - History of Rhetoric  OR
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 415 - History of Rhetoric
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3

 

PHIL 418 - Metaphysics
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHIL 420 - Theory of Knowledge
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 425 - Philosophy of Mind
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 435 - Philosophy of Science
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 441 - Political and Legal Philosophy
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHIL 499 - Independent Study in Philosophy
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
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