Program Overview

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with a Pre-Medical Professions Option is a comprehensive program designed to provide students with a strong foundation in philosophy and prepare them for a career in the medical field.

Program Curriculum

The program curriculum consists of the following components:

• Degree Core Requirements
  • History of Philosophy: Select two of the following courses (6 credits)
    • PHIL 2115: Ancient Through Medieval Philosophy
    • PHIL 2116: Ancient Through Medieval Philosophy
    • PHIL 2125: History of Modern Philosophy
    • PHIL 2126: History of Modern Philosophy
  • Logic: PHIL 3505: Modern Logic and Its Development (3 credits)
  • Metaphysics & Epistemology: Select two of the following courses (6 credits)
    • PHIL 1204: Knowledge and Reality
    • PHIL 4204: Philosophy of Mind (3 Philosophy credits required)
    • PHIL 4214: Metaphysics (3 Philosophy credits required)
    • PHIL 4224: Epistemology (3 Philosophy credits required)
    • PHIL 4604: Philosophy of Biology
    • PHIL 4614: Philosophy of Science (3 Philosophy credits required)
  • Value Theory: Select two of the following courses, including at least one 3000-level course (6 credits)
    • PHIL 1304: Morality and Justice
    • PHIL 2304: Global Ethics
    • PHIL 2314: Philosophy of Sex, Gender, and Race
    • PSCI/PHIL 3015: Political Theory
    • PSCI/PHIL/PPE 3016: Political Theory
    • PHIL/PPE 3314: Ethical Theory (3 Philosophy credits required)
    • PHIL 3334: Ethical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
    • PHIL 3414: Aesthetics
    • PHIL/PPE 4304: Political Philosophy (3 Philosophy credits required)
• Major Requirements
  • Select an additional 15 credit hours of philosophy courses currently offered by the Department of Philosophy
• Option Required Courses
  • Pre-Medical Professions Option Required Course: PHIL 3324: Biomedical Ethics (3 credits)
  • Pre-Medical Professions Option Philosophy Electives: Select two of the following courses that have not been counted towards the Philosophy Degree Core Courses Requirements (6 credits)
    • PHIL 2304: Global Ethics
    • PHIL 3314: Ethical Theory
    • PHIL 4304: Political Philosophy
    • PHIL 4604: Philosophy of Biology
    • PHIL 4614: Philosophy of Science
  • Pre-Medical Professions Option Non-Philosophy Electives: Select two of the following courses (6 credits)
    • ADV 4324: Health Communication Campaigns
    • ENGL 3154: Literature, Medicine, and Culture
    • ENGL 3534: Literature and the Environment
    • ENGL/STS 4314:
    • GEOG 4074: Medical Geography of Infectious Diseases
    • HIST 3624: Health and Illness in African History
    • HIST 3714: War and Medicine
    • HIST 3724: History of Disease, Medicine, and Health
    • HD 2014: Integrative Practices for Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience
    • HD 3114: Issues in Aging
    • NEUR 2464: Neuroscience and Society
    • PHS 2004: Introduction to Public Health
    • PHS 3014: Introduction to Environmental Health
    • PHS 3534: Drug Education
    • PHS/HNFE 3634: Epidemiologic Concepts of Health and Disease
    • PHS 4014: Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation
    • PHS 4044: Public Health Policy and Administration
    • PSYC 3054: Health Psychology
    • SOC 3714: Sociology of Aging
    • SOC 4414: Drugs and Society
    • SOC 4704: Medical Sociology
    • SOC 4714: Sociology of Mental Illness
    • STS 2154: The Life Sciences and Society
    • STS 3284: Technology and Disability
    • STS 3314: Medical Dilemmas and Human Experience
    • WGS/STS 4334: Sexual Medicine
• Free Electives: Select 24 credits of Free Electives
• Pathways to General Education
  • Pathways Concept 1 - Discourse: Select nine hours in Pathway 1a and Pathway 1f
  • Pathways Concept 2 - Critical Thinking in the Humanities: Select six hours in Pathway 2
  • Pathways Concept 3 - Reasoning in the Social Sciences: Select six hours in Pathway 3
  • Pathways Concept 4 - Reasoning in the Natural Sciences: Select six hours in Pathway 4
  • Pathways Concept 5 - Quantitative and Computational Thinking: Select nine hours in Pathway 5a and Pathway 5f
  • Pathways Concept 6 - Critique and Practice in Design and the Arts: Select six hours in Pathway 6a or Pathway 6d
  • Pathways Concept 7 - Critical Analysis of Identity and Equity in the United States: Select three hours in Pathway 7

Graduation Requirements

To graduate, students must complete a minimum of 120 semester credit hours and meet the following requirements:

• Departmental prerequisites and corequisites for all courses must be satisfied.
• Any Philosophy course taken to fulfill one of the 15 credits of Major Requirements and that has Pathways credit can be "double counted" (Pathways and Philosophy Major Requirements credit).
• Students must take at least six courses at the 3000-4000 level for fulfillment of their "Philosophy Major Requirements".
• All courses to fulfill the "Philosophy Major Requirements" must be taken A/F and be completed with a minimum GPA of 2.0. Students must also maintain an overall GPA of 2.0.

Foreign Language Requirement

Students who did not successfully complete at least two years of a single foreign, classical, or sign language during high school must successfully complete six semester hours of a single foreign, classical, or sign language at the college level. Courses taken to meet this requirement do not count toward the hours required for graduation.