I. UNIVERSITY CORE CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS

NOTE: Refer to the Core Curriculum chapter of the catalog for information regarding the "Core English and Math Completion Policy".

Refer to the "English" section of the Core Curriculum website

Refer to the "Math" section of the Core Curriculum website

Refer to the "Natural Sciences" section of the Core Curriculum website

Refer to the "Social Sciences" section of the Core Curriculum website

Refer to the "Fine Arts" section of the Core Curriculum website. Current Philosophy Fine Arts Course:  Phil 202

CH 201--Ancient and Medieval Cultures

CH 202--The Modern World

CH 203--The American Experience and Constitutional Change

Refer to the "Capstone" section of the Core Curriculum website.  Current Philosophy Capstone Courses: Phil 470, Phil 475, Phil 476, Phil 477, Phil 480

Refer to the "Diversity" section of the Core Curriculum website.  Current Philosophy Diversity Courses:  Phil 210, Phil 245

II. ADDITIONAL COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

*Credits may vary depending on initial course placement in foreign language.  (See catalog for details on these requirements)

Successful completion of the foreign language requirement may be accomplished through one of six options:

• complete a fourth semester college course in a foreign language.
• complete two semesters of Latin (LAT 111 and LAT 112) and two semesters of Greek (GRE 111 and GRE 112)
• complete and transfer to UNR a fourth semester college course in American Sign Language
• demonstrate proficiency through placement examination or other means through the Department of Foreign languages and Literatures
• show transcript evidence of successful completion of a fourth-year high school course in foreign language
• participate in the studies abroad program pre-approved by the college to meet the foreign language requirement.

Students seeking a Bachelor of Arts degree in the college shall be required to take, within the College of Liberal Arts, two courses that are outside the departments in which they major or minor, and that exclude courses taken to fulfill Core Curriculum requirements.

 See 2009-2010 catalog,  for information on requirements for graduation.  Also check the Admissions site for guidelines for applying to graduate:   http://www.ss.unr.edu/records/grad.asp

III. MAJOR REQUIREMENTS

Courses are linked to the Class Schedule for Fall 2009.  Selected Topics (Phil 295 and 494) and Selected Figures (Phil 495) courses are shown in the groups where they fulfill the requirement.

PHIL 211--Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (only offered during fall semesters)

PHIL 213--Introduction to Modern Philosophy (only offered during spring semesters)

PHIL 114--Introduction to Symbolic Logic OR
PHIL 326--Intermediate Symbolic Logic

Both Phil 314 and 315 are required for students becoming philosophy majors under 2008-2009 or later catalog.

PHIL 314--Survey of 20th Century Continental European Philosophy
PHIL 315--Survey of 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy

• PHIL 212--Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
• PHIL 313--19th Century Philosophy
• PHIL 316--American Pragmatism
• PHIL 407--British Empiricists
• PHIL 408--Continental Rationalists
• PHIL 409--Recent French Philosophy
• PHIL 410--Plato
• PHIL 411--Aristotle
• PHIL 415--Kant
• PHIL 416--Hegel
• PHIL 417--Nietzsche
• PHIL 418--Heidegger
• PHIL 419--Wittgenstein
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Sartre (Fall 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2005)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Merleau Ponty
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  John Searle (Fall 2002)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Levinas (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Derrida (Spring 2004)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Dewey and Rorty (Spring 2005)
• PHIL 495--Selected Figures in Philosophy:  Jacques Derrida (Spring 1999)
• PHIL 495--Selected Figures in Philosophy:  John Stuart Mill (Fall 1999)

• PHIL 131--Introduction to Metaphysics 
• PHIL 224--Introduction to Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 295.002--Top Iss: What Is Reality? (Spring 2007)
• PHIL 425--Philosophy of Language
• PHIL 435--Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 438--Problems in History and Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 440--Theory of Knowledge
• PHIL 441--Metaphysics
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Nativism and the Mind (Fall 1996)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Philosophy of Psychology (Spring 1997)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Theory of Action (Fall 1999)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Seminar in Philosophical Psychology (Spring 2003)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Levels of Reality (Spring 2008)

• PHIL 135--Introduction to Ethics
• PHIL 202--Introduction to the Philosophy of the Arts
• PHIL 203--Introduction to Existentialism
• PHIL 207--Introduction to Political Philosophy
• PHIL 244--Bioethics 
• PHIL 245--Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHIL 294 (section 001)--Sel Top:  Environmental Ethics (Spring 2002)
• PHIL 294 (honors section)--Sel Top: Environmental Ethics (Spring 2002)
• PHIL 294--Sel Top:  Legal Ethics (Fall 2003)
• PHIL 295--Top Iss:  Feminist Philosophy (Spring 2005)
• PHIL 295--Top Iss:  Global Justice and Ethics (Spring 2007)
• PHIL 295--Top Iss: Philosophy of Literature (Spring 2009)
• PHIL 320--Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 323--Problems in the Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 325--Problems in the Philosophy of History
• PHIL 327--History of Political Thought I
• PHIL 328--History of Political Thought II
• PHIL 409--Recent French Philosophy
• PHIL 450--Ethical Theory
• PHIL 451--Happiness
• PHIL 452--Aesthetics
• PHIL 457--Political Philosophy (Topic: Philosophy of Human Rights)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Fall 1997)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Theories of Rights (Fall 1998)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Feminist Theory (Spring 1999, Spring 2000 )
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Philosophy of Children (Spring 1999)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Modern Jewish Thought (Spring 1999)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Civil Liberty and the Law (Spring 2002)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Psychoanalysis and Feminism (Spring 2002)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Ethical Theory (Fall 2002)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Feminist Philosophy (Spring 2003)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Problems in Ethics (Spring 2005, Spring 2007)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Ethics After Auschwitz (Fall 2005)
• PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Global Justice (Spring 2008)
• PHIL 495--Selected Figures in Philosophy:  John Stuart Mill (Fall 1999)

Additional credits in philosophy at the 300-400 level.

IV. MINOR REQUIREMENTS

The philosophy department accepts any minor approved by the College of Liberal Arts

V.  ELECTIVES

VI. TOTAL CREDITS

Forty-two or more credits must be in courses numbered 300 or above