Doctoral Degree

Students are invited to continue toward candidacy for the Ph.D. degree on the basis of performance in courses and seminars, satisfactory completion of the M.A. requirements, and the recommendation of their advisory committee in consultation with the Graduate Advisor. A student's course of study is supervised by an advisory committee, in consultation with the Graduate Advisor until the student receives a dissertation committee. Under certain circumstances, holders of the Master's degree in Philosophy from other universities may be admitted to the doctoral program. These students are required to enroll in first-year proseminars.

Course Requirements. Ph.D. students are required to complete 12 more units in philosophy in addition to the 48 units for the M.A. degree. Of the student's 60 graduate units in philosophy, 8 units in addition to the proseminar must be in the area of the history of philosophy, with 4 of these in ancient philosophy, 8 in addition to the proseminar in the area of metaphysics and epistemology, and 8 in addition to the proseminar in the area of ethics, politics, and aesthetics.

Language Requirement. A student must know one foreign language well enough to conduct philosophical research in that language. Students may select Greek, Latin, French, German, or (by petition) some other language if it accords better with the area of their research. Competence is judged by a translation exam administered by the department.

Logic Requirement. In order to satisfy the logic requirement at the Ph.D. level, students must pass PHIL 125 (Intermediate Logic) with a grade of "B" or better.

Proposition Requirement. Having acquired an M.A. degree either here or at another institution, all Ph.D. students must complete an acceptable proposition by the end of their first year in the Ph.D. program. A proposition is a paper, no more than forty pages in length, devoted to a significant problem in philosophy.

Qualifying Examination. Students must write a dissertation prospectus and pass a qualifying oral examination before advancing to candidacy. This examination, which is supervised by a faculty committee as stipulated in the regulations of the Graduate Division, concentrates on the students' preparation for writing a dissertation as indicated by the dissertation prospectus. It must be taken after the student has passed the M.A. Language and Proposition requirements and normally occurs within two quarters of the completion of these requirements.

Dissertation. A dissertation to be presented as prescribed by the Graduate Council is prepared under the direction of the candidate's dissertation committee.

Final Examination. After completion of the dissertation, the candidate is examined in its defense by the dissertation committee.

The normative time to the Ph.D. degree is 18 quarters.

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introductory exploration into the nature of the individual, his/her place in the universe, and the forces that shape his/her destiny. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 001 or PHIL 001H.

PHIL 001H. Honors Introduction to Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to PHIL 001. An introductory course designed to explore a small number of classical texts central to philosophy and the liberal arts and sciences. Students examine issues surrounding the nature of knowledge, the foundations of moral philosophy, and the relation of both to the development of the human and natural sciences. Texts may vary from year to year and include works by such authors as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, and Kant. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 001 or PHIL 001H.

PHIL 002. Contemporary Moral Issues. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; consultation, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Philosophical analysis of contemporary moral issues such as: abortion, discrimination, sexual morality, punishment, the obligation to obey the law, suicide, euthanasia, war, privacy. Credit is awarded for one only of PHIL 002 or PHIL 002H.

PHIL 002H. Honors Contemporary Moral Issues. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to PHIL 002. Philosophical analysis of contemporary moral issues such as abortion, discrimination, sexual morality, punishment, the obligation to obey the law, suicide, euthanasia, war, and privacy. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is only awarded for one of PHIL 002 or PHIL 002H.

PHIL 007. Introduction to Critical Thinking. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. A practical examination of reasoning and argument topically illustrated. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 007 or PHIL 007H.

PHIL 007H. Honors Introduction to Critical Thinking. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to PHIL 007. A practical examination of reasoning and argument, topically illustrated. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is only awarded for one of PHIL 007 or PHIL 007H.

PHIL 008. Introduction to Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to symbolic logic. Teaches how to distinguish, in a precise way, valid deductive arguments from those that are invalid; includes learning to use logical symbolism, truth tables, and formal deductions. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 008 or PHIL 008H.

PHIL 008H. Honors Introduction to Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to PHIL 008. An introduction to symbolic logic. Teaches how to distinguish, in a precise way, valid deductive arguments from those that are invalid; includes learning symbolism, truth tables, and formal deductions. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 008 or PHIL 008H.

PHIL 011. Introductory Philosophy Seminar. (4)

Seminar, three hours; extra reading, two hours; one term paper. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to a small number of central philosophical problems. Small class size in order to provide for substantial discussion and close supervision of written papers.

PHIL 012. Introductory Seminar in Moral Philosophy. (4)

Seminar, three hours; extra reading, two hours; one term paper. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to a small number of central moral issues: Small class size in order to provide for substantial discussion and close supervision of written papers.

PHIL 030 (E-Z). Introduction to the History of Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Introductory surveys of important periods and subjects in the history of Western philosophy. Topics include E. Hellenic Philosophy: Pre-Socratics through Aristotle; F. Hellenistic Philosophy: Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics; G. Medieval Philosophy; I. Early Modern Philosophy; J. Late Modern Philosophy; K. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; M. History of Ethics; N. History of Political Philosophy.

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of socialist, liberal, libertarian, and communitarian approaches to the problem of the compatibility of markets and morals. Also considers issues such as the meaning of freedom, community consumption, prostitution, surrogate mothering, and the distribution of health care.

PHIL 108. Philosophical Issues of Race and Gender. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates philosophical issues concerning race and gender. Themes include the role of cultural and biological criteria in defining these concepts; the roles of race and gender in personal identity; the nature of racism, sexism, and their variants; and policy implications such as affirmative action and the civil status of homosexual relationships. Cross-listed with WMST 108.

PHIL 109. Human Rights and Asian Values. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of social and political theory from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, giving special emphasis to Asian thought on law, morals, and politics.

PHIL 110. Asian Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A general introduction to philosophy as well as a survey of Asian contributions to philosophy, focusing on the Indian and Chinese traditions. Examines questions concerning how best to live one's life, what can be known, the relation between mind and body, whether there are minds and bodies, and the nature of the universe.

PHIL 111 (E-Z). Philosophy, Film, and Reflective Popular Culture. (4)

Lecture, three hours; outside reading, two hours; screening, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines philosophically a different specific theme as depicted in "popular" films. Four or five films are screened, each is examined for the philosophical issues it raises and how these often stereotypical treatments change over time. E. The Holocaust; F. The Physically and Psychologically Challenged; R. Racism in America; H. Feminism; I. "Romantic" Love.

PHIL 112. Mortal Questions. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Focuses on aspects of our distinctively human capacity to lead a meaningful life, especially investigating aspects of the nature of the mind and human freedom. The nature of death and its place in the context of a meaningful life is discussed.

PHIL 113. God. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Topics include examination of the nature of divinity and the nature of evil, the influence of the concept of God upon philosophical history, ideals, and values, and the riddle of an after-life.

PHIL 114. Science and Human Understanding. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of some recent philosophical reflections on this topic; that is, the ways in which various contemporary philosophers have examined human understanding as exemplified in science.

PHIL 115. The Care of the Soul. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A historical and contemporary examination of the role philosophy has played in nurturing the human spirit in the face of other philosophical efforts to demythologize the soul into neural functions or even mere congeries of atoms in motion in the void.

PHIL 116. Business Ethics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into some of the moral issues arising from business life, such as conflicts of interest, responsibility to consumers, corporate culture and character, and the morality of competition. The history of ethics and the history of business as an institution are also considered. Cross-listed with BSAD 116.

PHIL 117. Environmental Ethics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A philosophic consideration of ethical problems that arise from the use and exploitation of the environment. Topics covered include workplace pollution hazards; environmental pollution and protection of collective natural resources; the rights of future generations; the rights of animals; the protection of endangered species.

PHIL 118. Personhood and Personal Identity. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Develops the basic elements of the concept of personhood, and how persons are alleged to be crucially different from non-human animals. Various theories are considered about what is essential to us as individuals and what makes us the same person over time. Explores the relationship between these metaphysical issues and moral issues, such as euthanasia, animals' rights, and abortion.

PHIL 119. Economics and Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 003 or ECON 003H or consent of instructor. Examines issues on the boundary of economics and philosophy. Topics include social choice theory and economic justice; foundations of utility theory, rational choice, and economic welfare; epistemology and the philosophies of science of Popper, Kuhn, and others. Cross-listed with ECON 117.

PHIL 120 (E-Z). Major Philosophers. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites are required for some segments of this course; see Department. Each segment covers a major figure in the history of philosophy.

PHIL 121 (E-Z). Topics in History of Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics include Q. Ancient Philosophy; R. Medieval Philosophy; S. Early Modern Philosophy; T. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; V. French Renaissance Philosophy; W. Political Philosophy; X. Moral Theories of Hume and Kant; Y. Kant and Post-Kantian European Moral Philosophy. PHIL 121Y is repeatable to a maximum of 8 units.

PHIL 124. Formal Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, two hours; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 008 or consent of instructor. An introduction to first-order logic, that is, the core of the logic often used in contemporary philosophy, mathematics, and computer science; supplemented with an introduction to some elementary set-theory.

PHIL 125. Intermediate Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, two hours; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 124 or consent of instructor. The basic metatheory of first-order logic; with an emphasis on the precise relation between its syntax (formulas, rules of inference, and proofs) and semantics (interpretations, truth, validity), leading to the soundness and completeness theorems.

PHIL 126. Advanced Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, two hours; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 125. Advanced metatheory of first-order logic, leading to a discussion of some of the important incompleteness, undecidability and non-expressability results of twentieth-century logic (Godel, Church, Turing, etc.).

PHIL 129. Topics in Formal Logic. (4)

Lecture, three hours; reading and logic exercises, three hours. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 124 or consent of instructor. An examination of some standard topics in formal logic. Course content varies from year to year. Typical topics are Godel's Theorems (for first- and second-order logic), Turing Machines and Church's Thesis, results in set theory, model theory, modal logic, inductive logic, and the history of logic. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 12 units.

PHIL 130. Theory of Knowledge. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An inquiry into the nature of human knowledge--its possibility, criteria, scope, and limitations.

PHIL 131. Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A discussion of some major issues and thinkers in the tradition dominant in twentieth-century British and American philosophy. Philosophers discussed might include Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, Kripke, and D. Lewis.

PHIL 137. Magic, Medicine, and Science. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Survey of the history of Western science and medicine from the Greeks to the Newtonian synthesis. Examines the development of modern science as the synthesis of organic, magical, and mechanical systems of thought, and the ideas of the philosophers who subscribed to them.

PHIL 138. Reasoning and Rationality. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 007 or consent of instructor. An exploration of the role reasoning plays in our lives, including a study of the linguistic and conceptual issues encountered when everyday reasoning becomes abstract, and reflections on the related philosophical notion of rationality.

PHIL 139. Philosophy of Science. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics discussed include understanding scientific objectivity in the light of history and sociology of science, realism and anti-realism about scientific theories; scientific methodology and its logic; and the nature of scientific explanation.

PHIL 143. Philosophy of Biological Sciences. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A philosophical examination of questions surrounding biological theory. Topics include sociobiology and the impact of genetics research on society, reductionism, the critical comparison of natural selection with other evolutionary mechanisms, the analysis of teleology, and the nature of biological species.

PHIL 151. Metaphysics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An investigation of some of the traditional problems in Western philosophy that have been labeled metaphysical, such as the existence of God, the relationship between mind and body, the determinism versus free will debate, and the nature of time and space.

PHIL 152. Philosophy of Language. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of some of the traditional issues in the philosophy of language, such as analyticity, theories of reference, truth, speech act theory, and philosophical theories of formal grammars.

PHIL 153. Philosophy of Mind. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of several theories of the nature of mind and an analysis of particular issues occasioned by them: the mind-body problem, personal identity, emotions, human action, self-knowledge, knowledge of other minds, and explanations of human behavior.

PHIL 154. Philosophy of Psychology. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or upper-division standing in Psychology or consent of instructor. Examines philosophical issues arising in the context of empirical psychology. Topics may include moral development; artificial intelligence and the modeling of cognition; the nature of perception and memory; fallacies in human reasoning; mechanisms of self-understanding; and mental illness and personhood. Cross-listed with PSYC 154.

PHIL 157. Existentialism. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of philosophical and literary works which deal with the significance of some fundamental human experiences: identity crises, choice and commitment, anxiety and death, the experience of meaninglessness, alienation.

PHIL 162. Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Examines the character and consequences of several recent movements in continental philosophy, including hermeneutics, structuralism, deconstruction, and critical theory. Authors discussed include Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, and Foucault.

PHIL 163. Philosophy in Literature. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 007 or PHIL 008 and PHIL 001 or PHIL 002 or a segment of PHIL 030 (E-Z); or consent of instructor. An examination of philosophical issues raised by selected novelists, poets, and playwrights.

PHIL 164. Philosophy of Religion. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A historical, critical examination of the concepts and arguments involved in the Judeo-Christian God-hypothesis, and the influence of this world view upon the ideals and values of the Western world.

PHIL 165. Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, two hours; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 124 or consent of instructor. A discussion of selected topics in the philosophy of logic and mathematics such as: the nature of logical laws and logical inference; logic and modal notions; logical and semantic paradoxes; the use of formal systems; the relationship of mathematics to logic; mathematical knowledge and truth; and the infinite. Course is repeatable as content changes.

PHIL 167. Space, Time, and Spacetime. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A philosophical exploration of spatiotemporality, a fundamental characteristic of most, if not all, reality. Classical ideas of space and time and their relations to both science and human experience are explored, as well as the revolutions brought by twentieth-century relativity theory.

PHIL 169. Topics in Metaphysics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An in-depth discussion of selected issues in contemporary metaphysics, such as abstract objects; essentialism and identity; laws of nature; free will and determinism. Course is repeatable as content changes.

PHIL 171. The Individual and Society: Introduction to Ethical Theory. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An analytic and historical inquiry into some of the main philosophic problems arising out of the relationships between individuals and the nature of values, such as the nature and justification of ethical beliefs.

PHIL 174. Ethics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of the major classical moral philosophers in the Western tradition and of some selected problems of metaethics.

PHIL 175. Social Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into philosophical problems and issues arising out of social theory and practice, focusing on contemporary concerns including the educational system, the family structure, women's liberation, racial conflict, and the problems of violence.

PHIL 176. Political Philosophy. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into some of the main philosophic issues arising from political life, such as the nature and justification of authority, democracy, natural rights, justice, equality, and civil disobedience.

PHIL 177. Justice. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A philosophical analysis of the concept of justice.

PHIL 178. Philosophy of Feminism. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An analysis of current concepts and debates in feminist philosophy including gender equality, gender difference, and the relation of sex and gender. Situates various approaches to these topics in the history of philosophy.

PHIL 183. Philosophy of Law. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into the nature of criminal law, the relation between law and morality, the nature of legal responsibility, and the obligation to obey the law.

PHIL 185. Marxist Critique. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the ideas central to the tradition of Western Marxism: ideology, critique, reification, instrumental reason, the domination of nature, and communicative action. Theorists discussed typically include Hegel, Marx, Lukacs, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Habermas.

PHIL 188. Biomedical Ethics. (4)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A philosophical discussion of newly emerging issues, both ethical and social, in biology and medicine, such as genetic engineering, euthanasia, experimentation with human subjects, abortion, behavior control, patient's right to know.

PHIL 189 (E-Z). Topics in Value Theory. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics include E. Ethics; F. Aesthetics; G. Political Philosophy; I. Social Philosophy; J. Philosophy of Law.

PHIL 190. Special Studies. (1-5)

To be taken with the consent of the department Chair as a means of meeting special curricular problems. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 16 units.

PHIL 192. Junior Seminar. (4)

Seminar, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): junior standing in Philosophy or consent of instructor. Introduces students to philosophical analysis and writing through an in-depth focus on a philosophical text or issue. Recommended for juniors majoring in Philosophy.

PHIL 195. Senior Thesis. (1-4)

Prerequisite(s): enrollment by request of student with approval of department chair. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 8 units.

Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. Oral reports by visiting scholars on current research in philosophy and discussion with students and faculty. Does not count toward the unit requirement for the M.A. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 255A-PHIL 255B-PHIL 255C. Proseminar for First-Year Graduate Students. (4-4-4) Year

Seminar, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): for entering graduate students only. A three-term sequence designed to introduce new graduate students to current issues and methods of research in (a) the history of philosophy, (b) metaphysics and epistemology, and (c) moral philosophy.

PHIL 260. Seminar in Philosophical Problems. (4)

Seminar, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Each quarter in which this course is offered some important philosophical problem is considered. Letter grades are assigned to students presenting formal seminars; other students are graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 265. Philosophical Texts. (1-4)

Seminar, one to three hours; consultation,one hour. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. Focused reading and discussion of common texts on research topics in philosophy. Will count toward the unit requirement for the M.A. if taken on a letter-graded basis and a paper is produced; others will be graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 270. Seminar in Individual Philosophers. (4)

Seminar, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Each quarter in which this course is offered a major figure in the history of philosophy is considered. Letter grades are assigned to students presenting formal seminars; other students are graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC).

PHIL 280. Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy. (4)

Seminar, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Each quarter in which this course is offered some aspect of contemporary philosophy is considered. Letter grades are assigned to students presenting formal seminars; other students are graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC).

PHIL 290. Directed Studies. (1-6)

Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC), except Master's Degree students may be graded on an A-F basis. Course is repeatable.

PHIL 291. Individual Studies in Coordinated Areas. (2-4)

Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. A program of studies designed to advise and assist candidates who are preparing for the Comprehensive Examinations. Open to M.A. students only; does not count toward the unit requirement for the M.A. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 292. Concurrent Analytical Studies in Philosophy. (1-4)

Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. Each 292 course will be taken concurrently with some 100-series course, approved by the Graduate Advisor, but on an individual basis. It will be devoted to completion of a graduate paper based on research or criticism related to the 100-series course. Faculty guides and evaluations will be provided throughout the quarter. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). May be repeated for credit.

PHIL 297. Directed Research. (1-6)

Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 299. Research for Thesis or Dissertation. (1-12)

Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

Seminar, one hour. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. A program of orientation, lectures, and workshops designed to enhance the Teaching Assistant's understanding of teaching methods in philosophy and to provide opportunities to work closely with experts in college teaching in order to improve the quality of instruction. Required of all new Teaching Assistants. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

PHIL 302. Teaching Practicum. (1-4) F,W,S

Prerequisite(s): employment as Teaching Assistant or Associate. Supervised teaching in lower-division courses and LWSO 100. Required of all teaching assistants in philosophy. Does not count toward the unit requirement for the M.A. degree. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). May be repeated for credit.