Philosophy Minor
PHI
Philosophy Department
Buckham B221
(716) 878-5136
The philosophy minor provides students with skills that facilitate success in their professional, private, and communal lives by equipping them to act wisely in a wide variety of environments and circumstances. These skills include being more thoughtful and reflective, thinking more critically, analyzing and appraising their own and other people's beliefs and values, communicating more effectively, reasoning and arguing more authoritatively, being open to similarities, differences, and alternative perspectives, and creatively solving a wide variety of problems.
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses (0 credit hours) | ||
| Electives (18 credit hours) | ||
| Select from the following: | 18 | |
| INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL LOGIC | ||
| THE MEANING OF LIFE | ||
| ETHICS FOR SCIENTISTS | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION | ||
| PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE | ||
| EXISTENTIALISM | ||
| PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA | ||
| PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY | ||
| JUSTICE: LIBERTY VS. EQUALITY | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE | ||
| SYMBOLIC LOGIC | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE AND SEX | ||
| KNOWLEDGE AND JUSTIFICATION | ||
| HISTORY OF ETHICS | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF MIND | ||
| CONTEMPORARY ETHICS | ||
| ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY | ||
| MODERN PHILOSOPHY | ||
| ZEN BUDDHISM | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL SCIENCES | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | ||
| WESTERN THOUGHT: HOMER TO ALEXANDER | ||
| ETHICS BOWL | ||
| PROBLEMS IN PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR | ||
| SEMINAR IN HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY | ||
| SPECIAL PROJECT (1-3) | ||
| INDEPENDENT STUDY (3-12) | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |
No student may declare a minor in the same discipline as their major, therefore, a Philosophy major may not declare a philosophy minor.