Prerequisites (State Mandated Common Prerequisites)

Students wishing to transfer to USF should complete the A.A. degree at the community college. Some courses required for the major may also meet General Education Requirements thereby transferring maximum hours to the university. If students transfer without an A.A. degree and have fewer than 60 semester hours of acceptable credit, the students must meet the university’s entering freshman requirements including ACT or SAT test scores, GPA, and course requirements.

There are no State Mandated Common Prerequisites for this degree program.

The transfer student should also be aware of the immunization, foreign language, and continuous enrollment policies of the university.

Students should complete the following prerequisite courses listed below at the lower level prior to entering the University. If these courses are not taken at the community college, they must be completed before the degree is granted. Unless stated otherwise, a grade of “C” is the minimum acceptable grade.

Mathematics (any courses).

Foreign Languages (Beginning and Intermediate German, French, or Latin) (1120-1121 level and 2200-2201 level)

Classics (CLT, CLA for example)

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Philosophy Faculty

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Philosophy Courses

PHH 2000 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY-6A -HP (3)

An introduction to selected philosophical problems and traditions.

PHH 3062 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL (3)

A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the end of the Middle Ages.

PHH 3420 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: MODERN (3)

A survey of Western philosophy from the end of the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.

PHH 4440 19th CENTURY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (3)

A study of developments in post-Kantian European philosophy.

PHH 4600 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -6A -XMW (3)

Selected schools of twentieth century thought such as idealism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, and existentialism.

PHH 4700 AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY -6A -XMW (3)

Major traditions in American thought, Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Analytic Philosophy in relation to American culture.

PHI 1103 CRITICAL THINKING -SS (3)

Methods of thinking that lead to reliable conclusions, with emphasis on concrete cases in ordinary thinking and the sciences.

PHI 2100 INTRODUCTION TO FORMAL LOGIC -6A -QM (3)

An elementary study of propositional, predicate, class and syllogistic logic with some attention to basic problems of logical theory.

PHI 2600 ETHICAL THEORY (3)

A study of ethical theories, concepts, problems and methods.

PHI 2631 ETHICS AND BUSINESS -SS (3)

An application of traditional ethical theories to contemporary problems in business.

PHI 3404 SCIENTIFIC METHOD (3)

Probability, inductive inference, the hypothetico-deductive method, experimentation, and selected topics in the philosophy of science.

PHI 3601 CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES -6A -SS (3)

Open to all students. A study of contemporary moral issues concerning racism, sex, sexism, abortion, poverty, crime, war, suicide, and human rights in general.

PHI 3633 BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (3)

This course will focus on the ethical issues arising from advances in medical practice, delivery of health care, and scientific research.

PHI 3636 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (3)

PR: Junior standing. An examination of the ethical problems that professionals will face in the complex, global society of the next few decades: confidentiality, divided loyalty, racism/sexism, etc.

PHI 3640 ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -SS (3)

A study of alternative theories of environmental ethics, including the application of these theories to contemporary environmental problems, such as pollution, resource depletion, species extinction, and land use.

PHI 3700 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION -6A -SS (3)

Analysis of religious experience and activity and examination of principal religious ideas in light of modern philosophy.

PHI 3905 DIRECTED STUDY (1-4)

PR: CI. Individual study directed by a faculty member. Approval slip from instructor required.

PHI 3930 SELECTED TOPICS (1-4)

PR: C.I. Selected topics according to the needs of the student.

PHI 4073 AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY -XMW (3)

A descriptive and analytical study of African philosophical thought, featuring reflective comparisons of African and Western categories of thought. (May also be taken for credit in Africana Studies.)

PHI 4300 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE -6A -XMW (3)

An examination of human knowledge; its scope and limits, and an evaluation of evidence, criteria of truth, the nature of belief, conditions for meaningfulness, theories of perception, and a study of memory and sense perception in the four major fields of nature, history, personal experience, and the a priori.

PHI 4320 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND -6A -XMW (3)

A study of historical and current issues in philosophy of mind, including the nature and status of mind, mind/body dualism, the relationship of mind and body, the problems of other minds, the physical basis for intelligence, etc.

PHI 4602 CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORY (3)

A survey of contemporary ethical theory, focusing both on the literature about the status of ethical theorizing--moral scepticism, mortal nihilism, narrative ethics--and on specific types of theories--deontological theories, consequentialist theories, rights-based theories, virtue theories.

PHI 4632 FEMINIST ETHICS -XMW (3)

A study of the varied approaches to moral reasoning taken by feminist ethical writers such as Wollstonecraft, Mill, Gilligan, Daly, Hoagland and others. (May also be taken for credit in Women's Studies.)

PHI 4800 AESTHETICS -6A -XMW (3)

A study of traditional and contemporary aesthetic theories with emphasis on creative process, the nature of the art work, the aesthetic response, expressiveness, form and content, as well as art and morality.

PHI 4905 DIRECTED STUDY (1-4)

PR: CI. Individual study directed by a faculty member. Approval slip from instructor required.

PHI 4930 SELECTED TOPICS (1-3)

PR: CI. Selected topics according to the needs of the senior students. Approval slip from instructor required.

PHI 5135 SYMBOLIC LOGIC (3)

PR: PHI 2100 or CI. Study of topics such as the following: Metatheory of propositional and predicate logic, related metatheoretic results, alternative logics.

PHI 5225 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (3)

PR: Eight hours of philosophy, major in linguistics, or CI. An examination of semantical, syntactical, and functional theories of language with special attention given to the problems of meaning, linguistic reference, syntactical form, and the relations between scientific languages and ordinary linguistic usage. Seminar format.

PHI 5913 RESEARCH (1-4)

PR: CI. Individual research supervised by a faculty member. Approval slip from instructor required.

PHI 5934 SELECTED TOPICS (1-3)

PR: CI. Selected topics according to the needs of the student. Approval slip from instructor required.

PHM 3100 SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY -6A (3)

An analysis of rival theories of social order and their philosophical foundations.

PHM 3400 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (3)

A study of the fundamental concepts of law from a philosophic standpoint including crime, justice, punishment, free speech, insanity, etc.

PHM 4322 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -6A -XMW (3)

A survey of political philosophy from 6 B.C. until 1600 A.D., including an examination of the ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological bases of these philosophies.

PHM 4331 MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -XMW (3)

A survey of political philosophy from 1600 A.D. until 1900 A.D., including an examination of the ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological bases of these philosophies.

PHM 4340 CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -6A -XMW (3)

A survey of political philosophy in the twentieth century, including an examination of the ethical, metaphysical and epistemological bases of these philosophies.

PHM 5125 TOPICS IN FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY (3)

A study of recent feminist philosophical approaches to epistemology, aesthetics or political philosophy. (May also be taken for credit in Women's Studies.)

PHN 4820 CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (3)

A survey of confucianism, taoism and other aspects of Chinese thought. The course is available to both majors and non-majors and does not have laboratory sections associated with it.

PHP 3786 EXISTENTIALISM -6A -HP (3)

A study of the religious and atheistic existentialists and the bearing of their views on religion, ethics, metaphysics, and theory of knowledge.

PHP 4000 PLATO -6A -XMW (3)

The examination of Plato will include the dialogues Protagoras, Georgias, Meno, Republic, etc.

PHP 4010 ARISTOTLE -6A -XMW (3)

Study of Aristotle's philosophy.

PHP 4410 KANT (3)

Lecture and discussion of Kant's philosophy, especially The Critique of Pure Reason.

PHP 4740 THE RATIONALISTS -6A (3)

A careful study of the epistemologies of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche.

PHP 4745 THE EMPIRICISTS -6A (3)

A careful study of epistemologies of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Thomas Reid.

PHP 4784 ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY -6A (3)

A study of the method devoted to clarifying philosophical problems through analysis of the language in which these problems are stated.

PHP 4788 PHILOSOPHY OF MARXISM -6A -XMW (3)

A critical survey of Marxist philosophy from Marx and Engels to Mao Tse-Tung and Herbert Marcuse. Hegelian foundations of Marxist philosophy analyzed in detail.

WST 4342 CLASSICS IN FEMINIST THEORY -XMW (3)

A study of classic contributions to the elaboration of feminist thought from the 18th century to the present in an attempt to discover the roots of the contemporary feminist movement. (May also be taken for credit in Women's Studies.)