Program Overview
Saint Louis University's Philosophy Minor offers 18 credits of coursework, including core classes in self and reality and ethics. Students can explore four elective courses from a wide selection covering topics like business, environmental, and medical ethics, as well as ancient and modern philosophy. The program allows students to enhance their critical thinking, ethical understanding, and exploration of fundamental questions.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Saint Louis University offers a minor in philosophy that can be completed in 18 credits. A philosophy minor helps SLU students with other majors explore their own meaning and purpose as well as the moral and conceptual foundations of their primary fields of study.
Outline:
- Required Courses:
- PHIL 1050 Introduction to Philosophy: Self and Reality (3 credits) or CORE 1700 Ultimate Questions: Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHIL 2050 Ethics (3 credits)
- Philosophy Electives: Select four 3000 or 4000 level courses (12 credits)
- Course List:
- PHIL 3250 Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL 3300 Philosophy of the Human Person
- PHIL 3360 Medical Ethics
- PHIL 3380 Business Ethics
- PHIL 3400 Ethics & Engineering
- PHIL 3420 Environmental and Ecological Ethics
- PHIL 3430 Philosophy of Law
- PHIL 3450 Disaster Narratives
- PHIL 3480 Jewish Life: Bible to Middle Ages
- PHIL 3490 Jewish Life: Middle Ages to Modern Times
- PHIL 3510 Philosophy in Film
- PHIL 3600 Science and Religion
- PHIL 3910 Internship
- PHIL 3930 Special Topics
- PHIL 3980 Independent Study
- PHIL 4040 Symbolic Logic
- PHIL 4090 Topics in Advanced Logic
- PHIL 4120 Topics in Epistemology
- PHIL 4150 Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 4160 Philosophy and Physics
- PHIL 4190 Gender and Science
- PHIL 4210 Topics in Metaphysics
- PHIL 4260 Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL 4280 Biology and Mind
- PHIL 4310 Topics in Ethics
- PHIL 4320 Feminism and the History of Ethics
- PHIL 4350 Survey of Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL 4400 History of Ancient Greek Philosophy
- PHIL 4500 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL 4570 Latin Paleography
- PHIL 4600 History of Modern Philosophy
- PHIL 4720 Topics Continental Philosophy
- PHIL 4740 Philosophy of Karl Marx
- PHIL 4750 Latin American Philosophy
- PHIL 4760 Spanish Philosophy
- PHIL 4800 Topics and Movements in Contemporary Philosophy
- PHIL 4810 Philosophy of Feminism
- PHIL 4820 Philosophy and Race
- PHIL 4840 Catholic Social Thought
- PHIL 4850 Topics in Philosophical Anthropology
- PHIL 4910 Internship
- PHIL 4930 Special Topics
- PHIL 4980 Advanced Independent Study
Other:
- Students can complete all or part of the philosophy minor at SLU’s campus in Madrid.
- Students must have a GPA of 2.00 in philosophy minor coursework to be retained in the minor.