Graduate Program Concentrations

Graduate Seminars

In addition to the department's emphasis on pluralistic and interdisciplinary approaches, students should also become familiar with the methodologies of professional research within areas of philosophical specialization.  Two Graduate Seminars, required regardless of concentration, offer intensive primary-source reading and critical appreciation of one or more significant philosophical figures or issues.

Concentrations

Concentrations offered are in the areas of Culture/History, Ethics/Practice, and Interpretation/Method.  The Concentrations feature:

Past disciplinary strengths are not ignored but incorporated with current practices and emerging trends.  In this way, the concentrations aim to support each student's exploration of possibilities and penchants, to promote self-guided reflection on philosophy's disciplines and cultures.

Program of Study

Graduate Seminars 6 hours
Concentration Electives 6 Hours
General Electives Thesis Option   15 Hours
Non-thesis Option   variable
Thesis or Non-thesis Project Thesis Option   6 Hours
Non-thesis Option   variable
Colloquium 2 hours
Total 35 hours

CHARTING A CONCENTRATION

Choices for: Choose at least one Choose at least one
 
Culture/
History
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Continental Philosophy
  • British-American Thought
  • Philosophical Analysis
  • Phenomenology
  • Pragmatism
  • Philosophical Study of Religion
 
Ethics/
Practice
  • Social Philosophy
  • Ethical Pluralisms
  • Ethical Theories & Practices
  • Meta-ethics
  • Health Care Ethics
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Philosophy's Roles in Ethics Across the Disciplines
  • Research Ethics
 
Interpretation/
Method

 

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Topics in Metaphysics
  • Metalogic
  • Logical Theory
  • Semeiotics
  • Theories of Knowledge
  • Philosophy of Expression
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy and Art in the Modern Age
  • Problems in the Philosophy of Religion