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Philosophy

Philosophy (B.A.)
Objectives: To engage students in critical and reflective inquiry; to prepare students for graduate study or for a number of vocational fields.
Requirements: Core courses are 101, 201, 211, 212, 231, 314, and 480 (senior project). In addition, students must take three courses chosen from 335, 340X, 347X, 450, and 460. The senior project requires research, development of a personal methodological stance, and application of analytical skills. The college mathematics requirement may be satisfied by any mathematics or statistics course except Mathematics 120. Majors must complete at least two courses in a foreign language.

Students also complete a minor in another discipline or the contextual and support area for philosophy. Required courses in the contextual and support area are grouped into four categories. The student must take at least seven of the designated courses, with at least one course from each category.
(a) To develop analytical, research, and communication skills: Computer Science 180; Statistics 161, 162, 163; History 215; English 321, 322, 323.
(b) To understand the historical and/or sociological character of the development of ideas: History 301; Economics 225; Religion 311, 312, 313.
(c) To complement the study of Western philosophy with non-Western perspectives: English 201, 202; Religion 131, 132, 211, 212; Political Science 205.
(d) To enrich the discipline of philosophy with a study of the complex processes of human behavior: Psychology 101, 102, 411; Political Science 117, 347.

Minor in Philosophy
A student may minor in philosophy by completing 101, 211, 212, 231, and two other philosophy courses chosen in consultation with the department chair.

Emory & Henry College
P.O. Box 947
Emory, Virginia
24327-0947
276.944.4121