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Philosophy & Religion Major

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Philosophy and Religion students are well trained in terms of content and method. The content of the major focuses on a deep immersion into key questions regarding the meaning, value, and significance of life, as seen from both philosophical and religious perspectives as those have been offered across history and across Western and Eastern cultures. In addition, students should expect a solid training in the analytic reasoning skills that ground critical thinking, thus developing an advanced ability to appreciate, understand, deconstruct, and form difficult and challenging argumentation.

The Philosophy and Religion major consists of 33 credit hours in the department, which includes the Capstone Research Seminar. Students need to complete five upper-divisional courses, which includes all 300 level and higher courses. In addition, a Philosophy and Religion major must complete the following requirements:

Introductory Methods (6 hrs.)

  • PHIL 105 Introduction to Philosophy (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 109 Introduction to the Study of Religion (3 hrs.)

Ethics (3 hrs.)

Choose One:

Philosophical and Religious Meaning of Life (6 hrs.)

Choose Two:

  • RELG 202 Religions of the World: Middle Eastern (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 205 Meaning of Life (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 218 Thinking Like a Confucian (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 203 Introduction to the Bible (3 hrs.)

Single Author (3 hrs.)

Students must take three Single Author 1-credit hour courses. These are offered once a semester, rotating between philosophy and religion professors and covering each time one significant philosophical or religious text or author.

Electives (12 hrs.)

Choose Four:

  • PHIL 214 Free Will & Responsibility (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 219 Daoism (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 277 Philosophy of Science (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 300 Classic Philosophers (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 313 Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 314 Contemporary European Philosophy (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 351 Existentialism in Philosophy, Film, and Literature (3 hrs.)
  • PHIL 374 Philosophy of Mind (3 hrs.)
  • PLSC 253 Political Philosophy (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 202 Religions of the World: Middle Eastern (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 204 Global Christianity (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 205 The Life and Teachings of Jesus (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 208 Life and Teachings of Paul (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 275 Does God Exist? (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 325 Living with Joy at Life’s End (3 hrs.)
  • RELG 368 20th Century Christian Thought (3 hrs.)

Senior Seminar (3 hrs.)