Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 36 PHIL credit hours.
2. Students must complete a minimum of 27 upper-division (3000-level and above) PHIL credit hours.
3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C-(1.7) in all major courses taken at CU Denver and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.0. All graded attempts in required and elective courses are calculated in the major GPA. Students cannot complete major or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
4. Students must complete a minimum of 18 PHIL credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. 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.
2. For those students who major in philosophy and minor in ethics, philosophy or philosophy of science, up to two courses can satisfy the requirements for both.
3. For those students who qualify for and fulfill the requirements of graduation with Honors, a total of at least 39 hours is required.
4. Courses not specifically listed here but offered by the Department may count toward the degree upon the approval of the Department Undergraduate Advisor.

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  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 3441 - Philosophical Reasoning Skills

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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 3430 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 3550 - Philosophy of Death and Dying
• PHIL 4242 - Bioethics
• 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 3030 - Philosophies of the Good Life & Happiness
• PHIL 3032 - Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy
    
• PHIL 4000 - 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
• PHIL 4040 - Skepticism
• PHIL 4101 - Pragmatism: Classical American Philosophy
    
• PHIL 4150 - Twentieth Century Ethics
• PHIL 4220 - Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
• PHIL 4230 - Postmodernism
• 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
    
• PHIL 4920 - Philosophy of Media and Technology

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  In addition to the above requirements, take three additional Philosophy electives, with at least one being at the upper division (3000 or above).