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Philosophy - B.A. Program Requirements

Type Legend:DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive 

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I.
 DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II.
 MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (42 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA 
Type Course Title Credits
KHU
DG		 PHIL 11001 Introduction to Philosophy 3
KAD
  11009 Principles of Thinking 3
KHU
DG		   21001 Introduction to Ethics 3
KHU
DG		   21020 Comparative Religious Thought I 3
KMC


   21002

31045		 Introduction to Formal Logic (3)
or
Formal Logic (3)		 3
    3/4xxxx PHIL Elective (minimum 9 credit hours must be at the 40000 level) 15
  Choose from the following: History of  Philosophy elective** 12
WIC PHIL 31001 Ancient Greek Philosophy (3)  
WIC   31002 Medieval Philosophy (3)  
WIC   31003 Continental Rationalism (3)  
WIC   31004 British Empiricism (3)  
WIC   31005 German Critical Philosophy (3)  
WIC   31006 19th-Century Philosophy (3)  
WIC   31010 20th-Century Philosophy (3)  
WIC   31020 American Philosophy (3)  
III.  ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (78 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
  Foreign Language*** 14-20
  Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories) 3
  Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory) 6-7
  Kent Core Composition 6-8
  Kent Core Fine Arts
 3
  Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning 0-5
  Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines) 6
  College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Basic Sciences)****
 3
  College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Social Sciences)***** 3
  General Electives (minimum 19 upper-division credit hours)
Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours
 34
MINIMUM TOTAL  121

* All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

** One course must be earned with a minimum C (2.0) grade to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

*** Fulfills College General Requirement.

****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Basic Science courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Biological Sciences (BSCI), Chemistry (CHEM), Geography (GEOG), Geology (GEOL) or Physics (PHY). Students may take the courses listed in the "introductory" sequences with the restrictions noted above in the Kent Core Basic Science section. The course may not be from the student's major.

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.


To fulfill the domestic diversity requirement, students must take one diversity course that is a not a PHIL course.