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Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 4990 Special Studies in Philosophy Description: Selected philosophical topics or works. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3
PHIL 5313 Topics in Social Political Thought Description: Consideration of a single topic (e.g. justice), topics (e.g. distributive justice and citizenship) of a single philosophical school, or movement (e.g. Marxism) or several movements and schools (e.g. Marxism and liberalism). Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5323 Seminar In Ancient Philosophy Prerequisites: PHIL 3113. Description: Philosophical problems that characterize ancient Philosophy: form and matter, one and many, universal and particular, actuality and potentiality, stability and change, substance and accidents, first principles and elements. Close reading of Plato and Aristotle. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy
Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Independent Study
Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 4993 Senior Honors Thesis Prerequisites: Departmental invitation, senior standing, Honors Program participation. Description: A guided reading and research program ending with an honors thesis under the direction of a faculty member, with second faculty reader and oral examination. Required for graduation with departmental honors in philosophy. Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5000 Master's Thesis in Philosophy
Description: Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree. Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-6 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Philosophy
PHIL 5333 Seminar In Modern Philosophy Prerequisites: PHIL 3213 or PHIL 3313.
Description: Examination of the metaphysical and epistemological systems of philosophers over 17th-19th century Europe such as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Hegel. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5343 Seminar in East and West Comparative Philosophy Prerequisites: PHIL 3943. Description: Critical comparison between West European and East Asian traditions of philosophy, such as being and non-being, the nature of truth, self, human being, ethics, human rights, community, and religion. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5353 Seminar in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Prerequisites: PHIL 3213 or PHIL 3313. Description: Themes such as presence and absence, intentionality and constitution, meaning and "being," identity and difference, history and consciousness, practice and power, construction and deconstruction. Philosophers such as Merleau, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Faucault. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy
PHIL 5210 Seminar on a Major Philosopher Prerequisites: Three courses in philosophy.
Description: The writings of a major philosopher and related material. Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5303 Topics in Philosophy of Religion Description: An examination of central topics in the philosophy of religion, such as the existence of God, the problem of evil, divine attributes, miracles, revelation, faith and reason, religious pluralism and exclusivism, and morality. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 5310 Seminar on a Field of Philosophy Description: Three courses in philosophy. Selected topics in one field of philosophy. Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Philosophy
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