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Major and Minor sequences by campus

Philosophy

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL100 10 Introduction to Philosophical Enquiry
PHIL101 10 Reason and Argument
PHIL102 10 Theories of Human Nature
PHIL103 10 Origins of Western Philosophy
PHIL104 10 Introduction to Ethics

Applied Philosophy

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL200 10 Contemporary Moral Problems (Pre: PHIL104 Introduction to Ethics)
PHIL201 10 Bioethics
PHIL202 10 Political and Social Philosophy
PHIL203 10 Citizenship, Values and Education

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL204 10 Philosophy of Knowledge (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL205 10 Mind Matters (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL206 10 Metaphysics (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL207 10 Science, Knowledge and Reality (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL208 10 Faith and Reason (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL209 10 Philosophy of Art (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL218 10 Issues in Moral Philosophy (Pre: PHIL104 Introduction to Ethics)

Logic and Philosophy of Language

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL210 10 Meaning, Truth and Reality (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL211 10 Ways of Logic, Number and Science (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL219 10 Elementary Symbolic Logic

History of Philosophy

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL212 10 Currents in Analytic Philosophy (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL213 10 Recent European Philosophy (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL214 10 Medieval Philosophy (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL215 10 Modern Western Philosophy (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL216 10 The Enlightenment (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)
PHIL217 10 Philosophy of East and West (Pre: 10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy)

Other

Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
PHIL220 10 Philosophy: Special Study
PHIL221 10 Modern Catholic Thinkers