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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Philosophy, B.S.
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Philosophy and Religious Studies
Mary Magada-Ward, program coordinator
615-898-5174
Mary.Magada-Ward@mtsu.edu
Courses for the B.S. in Philosophy are intended to acquaint students with philosophical methods, systems, and problems, as well as supply a philosophical background for graduate study in philosophy or related areas.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
30 hours* |
| Minor 1 |
15-18 hours |
| Minor 2 |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
13-22 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (30 hours)
The Philosophy major requires a 2.00 GPA.
Curriculum: Philosophy, B.S.
Freshman
- PHIL 2110 - Elementary Logic and Critical Thinking 3 credit hours (HSSR)
- Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Information Literacy 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 8 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
- Minor electives 6 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours (PHIL 1030 recommended)
Sophomore
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- PHIL elective 3 credit hours (PHIL 3150 recommended)
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships/Elective 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- PHIL elective 3 credit hours
- Minor electives 6 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
Junior
- PHIL electives 6 credit hours
- Minor electives 15 credit hours
- General electives 9 credit hours
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