Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy

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Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy

  • Objectives As a student of philosophy, you'll become highly skilled in the kinds of critical and reflective thinking required for many philosophical problems. You'll also become adept at shifting between different ways of thinking or conceptual frameworks, learned in part by exploring the systematic theories produced by some of the great minds of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant. By studying philosophy, you'll gain a unique kind of intellectual flexibility and sophistication, something that can benefit every university student.
  • Academic title Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy
  • Course description Philosophy
    B.A. Honours
    (20.0 credits)

       1. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (10.0 credits):

       1. 2.0 credits in PHIL 2005 [1.0], PHIL 3002, and PHIL 3003;
       2. 1.0 credit in PHIL 2010 and PHIL 2020;
       3. 1.0 credit in the History of Philosophy;
       4. 2.0 credits in Ethics, Society and Aesthetics;
       5. 2.0 credits in Language, Mind and World;
       6. 2.0 credits in PHIL at the 4000-level or above;

       2. Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA (10.0 credits):

       7. 8.0 credits not in PHIL;
       8. 2.0 credits in free electives.

    • PHIL 1000 - Introductory Philosophy: Fields, Figures and Problems
    • PHIL 1100 - Looking at Philosophy
    • PHIL 1301 - Mind, World, and Knowledge
    • PHIL 1500 - Contemporary Moral, Social and Religious Issues
    • PHIL 1550 - Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues
    • PHIL 1600 - History of Philosophy
    • PHIL 2001 - Introduction to Logic
    • PHIL 2003 - Critical Thinking
    • PHIL 2005 - Western Philosophy Before 1600
    • PHIL 2010 - Issues in Theoretical Philosophy
    • PHIL 2020 - Issues in Practical Philosophy
    • PHIL 2101 - History of Ethics
    • PHIL 2103 - Philosophy of Human Rights
    • PHIL 2104 - Computer Ethics
    • PHIL 2106 - Information Ethics
    • PHIL 2201 - Introduction to Marxist Philosophy
    • PHIL 2202 - Topics in Marxist Philosophy
    • PHIL 2301 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
    • PHIL 2306 - Philosophy and Feminism
    • PHIL 2307 - Gender and Philosophy
    • PHIL 2380 - Introduction to Environmental Ethics
    • PHIL 2405 - Philosophy of the Paranormal
    • PHIL 2408 - Bioethics
    • PHIL 2501 - Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
    • PHIL 2504 - Language and Communication
    • PHIL 2520 - Introduction to Philosophical Logic
    • PHIL 2540 - Personal Identity and the Self
    • PHIL 2550 - Moral Psychology
    • PHIL 2601 - Philosophy of Religion
    • PHIL 2807 - Philosophy of Art
    • PHIL 2900 - Truth and Propaganda
    • PHIL 3001 - Early Greek Philosophy
    • PHIL 3002 - 17th Century Philosophy
    • PHIL 3003 - 18th Century Philosophy
    • PHIL 3005 - 19th Century Philosophy
    • PHIL 3009 - Topics in European Philosophy
    • PHIL 3010 - Philosophical Traditions
    • PHIL 3102 - Philosophy of Law: The Logic of Law
    • PHIL 3104 - The Roots of Analytic Philosophy
    • PHIL 3140 - Epistemology
    • PHIL 3150 - Metaphysics
    • PHIL 3301 - Issues in the Philosophy of Science
    • PHIL 3306 - Symbolic Logic
    • PHIL 3320 - Contemporary Ethical Theory
    • PHIL 3330 - Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy
    • PHIL 3340 - Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
    • PHIL 3350 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs
    • PHIL 3380 - Environments, Technology and Values
    • PHIL 3450 - Topics in Aesthetics
    • PHIL 3501 - Philosophy of Cognitive Science
    • PHIL 3502 - Mind and Action
    • PHIL 3504 - Pragmatics
    • PHIL 3506 - Semantics
    • PHIL 3530 - Philosophy of Language
    • PHIL 3901 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 3902 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 3903 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 3906 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 3907 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 3908 - Independent Study
    • PHIL 4003 - Seminar in philosophy Before the Modern Period
    • PHIL 4004 - Seminar in philosophy Before the Modern Period
    • PHIL 4005 - Seminar in Modern Philosophy
    • PHIL 4006 - Seminar in Modern Philosophy
    • PHIL 4007 - Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy
    • PHIL 4008 - Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy
    • PHIL 4100 - Special Topic
    • PHIL 4210 - Seminar in philosophy of Language or Linguistics
    • PHIL 4220 - Seminar in philosophy of Mind or Cognition
    • PHIL 4230 - Seminar in Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Science
    • PHIL 4300 - Seminar in Ethical Theory or Meta-Ethics
    • PHIL 4320 - Seminar in Ethics or Moral Philosophy
    • PHIL 4330 - Seminar in Social or Political Philosophy
    • PHIL 4403 - Special Topic in Applied Ethics
    • PHIL 4404 - Special Topic in Applied Ethics
    • PHIL 4405 - Special Topic in Aesthetics or Philosophy of Art
    • PHIL 4406 - Special Topic in Aesthetics or Philosophy of Art
    • PHIL 4407 - Special Topic in philosophy of Law
    • PHIL 4408 - Special Topic in philosophy of Law
    • PHIL 4503 - Special Topic in philosophy of Computing
    • PHIL 4504 - Special Topic in philosophy of Computing
    • PHIL 4505 - Semantics II
    • PHIL 4507 - Contemporary Formal Semantics
    • PHIL 4603 - Special Topic in Feminist Philosophy
    • PHIL 4604 - Special Topic in Feminist Philosophy
    • PHIL 4606 - Special Topic in Continental Philosophy
    • PHIL 4607 - Special Topic in Continental Philosophy
    • PHIL 4701 - Special Topic in Logic
    • PHIL 4702 - Special Topic in Logic
    • PHIL 4703 - Special Topic in Philosophical Logic
    • PHIL 4704 - Special Topic in Philosophical Logic
    • PHIL 4900 - Tutorial
    • PHIL 4901 - Tutorial
    • PHIL 4902 - Tutorial
    • PHIL 4903 - Tutorial
    • PHIL 4904 - Tutorial
    • PHIL 4906 - Tutorial
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