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Sep 16, 2024
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Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025
Philosophy, B.A.
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120 Credit Hours
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Program Learning Outcomes
“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 20
- Apply knowledge to actual situations.
- Break down ideas into simpler parts.
- Find evidence to support generalizations.
- Compile component ideas into a whole.
- Construct, critically evaluate, and defend arguments.
- Articulate their comprehension of primary source readings.
- Analyze first order predicate and propositional logic.
- Demonstrate fair-mindedness when comparing divergent philosophical outlooks.
- Adopt a personal stance toward a variety of truth claims.
- Think in depth about the life of faith.
Graduation Requirements
Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined here .
NOTE: Students must earn 39 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.
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Philosophy, B.A. Program- 35 Credit Hours
Philosophy Major - 30 Credit Hours
Required Ethics Courses - 3 Credit Hours
Majors in Philosophy must take one of the following courses:
Philosophy Core Courses - 9 Credit Hours
Majors in Philosophy must take any three of the following courses:
History of Philosophy Courses - 9 Credit Hours
Majors in Philosophy must take any three of the following courses:
Philosophy Electives - 9 Credits
Majors in Philosophy must take any three additional courses from the list below:
Philosophy Department Science Requirements for Majors: 5 Credit Hours
Students in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences must take five additional hours of natural science: 1 lab to accompany the course taken for Faith, Roots and Reason (general education), BIO 1043 , BIO 1023 , ESC 1043 , OCY 1043 , FOR 1003 , PHY 1033 , PHY 1063 , or PHY 2113 , and one additional natural science course and accompanying lab. The two natural sciences must be in different areas: one must be a life science (biology) and the other must be a physical science (chemistry, physics, oceanography, earth science, or forensic science). In sum, students are required to take a minimum of 8 hours of natural science courses (one life science and one physical science, with their associated labs).
Modern Language Requirement - 3-6 Credit Hours
Philosophy majors are required to take:
- one intermediate modern language course (3 credit hours), OR
- two elementary modern language courses (6 credit hours), OR
- one elementary and one intermediate modern language course (6 credit hours).
Note: No CLEP or transient study credits may be used to fulfill this requirement. Transfer credits and other forms of credit-by-examination will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may not be approved to fulfill this requirement. English majors taking classes at PBA in French, German, or Spanish to meet the language requirement for the major should use one of those to fulfill the Global Studies requirement.
Additional Required Credit Hours - 45 Credit Hours
This program must include a minor or an additional major.
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