Program Requirements

1. A total of 36 semester hours must be completed for the Philosophy major* and at least 18 of which must be taken at CU Denver.
2. All courses taken at CU Denver must have a C or higher and all transfer courses must have a C- or higher.
3. Courses taken at other institutions must either be transferred as direct equivalent to a CU Denver course or be approved by an advisor in the Philosophy Department for application towards the major.
4. No more than 6 hours below the 3000 level may be counted toward the major.
5. For those students who major in philosophy and minor in ethics, philosophy or philosophy of science, no course can satisfy the requirements for both. For example, if a student takes PHIL 4150, Twentieth Century Ethics, it can only satisfy the requirement for one program offered in Philosophy.

*For those students who qualify for and fulfill the requirements of graduation with Honors, a total of at least 39 hours is required.

• Take all of the following required courses:

• PHIL 2441 - Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning

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• PHIL 3440 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic

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• PHIL 3002 - Ancient Greek Philosophy
• PHIL 3022 - Modern Philosophy
• PHIL 3760 - Kant

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  Take one of the following upper division Social/Political Philosophy courses:

• PHIL 3200 - Social and Political Philosophy
• PHIL 3280 - War and Morality
• PHIL 3500 - Ideology and Culture: Racism and Sexism
• PHIL 4500 - Feminist Philosophy  

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  Take one of the following upper division Ethics courses:

• PHIL 3150 - History of Ethics
• PHIL 3250 - Business Ethics
• PHIL 3280 - War and Morality  
• PHIL 3500 - Ideology Culture  
• PHIL 3550 - Philosophy of Death and Dying
• PHIL 4242 - Bioethics
• PHIL 4250 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 4260 - Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 4500 - Feminist Philosophy

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  Take one of the following upper division Continental Philosophy courses:

• PHIL 4780 - Heidegger
• PHIL 4790 - Nietzsche
• PHIL 4833 - Existentialism
• PHIL 4500 - Feminist Philosophy  

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  Take one of the following upper division American or Analytic Philosophy courses:

• PHIL 3032 - Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy
• PHIL 4101 - Pragmatism: Classical American Philosophy
• PHIL 4300 - Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 4350 - Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 4900 - John Dewey

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  Take one of the following history of Philosophy courses:

• PHIL 3005 - Roman and Early Medieval Philosophy
• PHIL 3010 - Medieval Philosophy
• PHIL 3022 - Modern Philosophy  
• PHIL 3032 - Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy  
• PHIL 4000 - 19th Century Philosophy
• PHIL 4101 - Pragmatism: Classical American Philosophy  
• PHIL 4735 - Rationalism
• PHIL 4740 - Empiricism
• PHIL 4770 - Hegel  
• PHIL 4780 - Heidegger  
• PHIL 4790 - Nietzsche  
• PHIL 4795 - Marx and Marxism  
• PHIL 4800 - Plato
• PHIL 4810 - Aristotle
• PHIL 4820 - Hume
• PHIL 4833 - Existentialism  
• PHIL 4900 - John Dewey  

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  Take one additional upper division elective (courses from previous lists may apply if they were not already used to satisfy distribution area requirements)

   

  Take two additional PHIL electives (may be upper or lower division)