Department of Philosophy

APPENDIX 2

PH.D Program Requirement Check List II: Post M.A.

Department of Philosophy

Name: ________________________________________

Total hours for Ph.D. 96

MA Credit

Total Ph.D. Hour Requirements

• ____________ 64 Hours of Philosophy Course Work (16 four hour courses)

  (The following do not count toward the requirement: PHIL 650, 651, 679, 691, 697, 698, 791, 797, 798. No more than six of the 16 courses [24 hours] may be reading or independent study courses.)

• ____________ 3 Hours of PHIL 650
• ____________ 15 Additional Hours (Internship, Cognates, Research, Philosophy Courses)
• ____________ 8 Hours of philosophy A udit C redit
• ____________ 16 Dissertation Research Hours

Group B Core Requirements

(Cannot be taken for S/U grading; no more than two readings or independent study courses (8 hours) may be substituted for these seminars.)

Eight courses at the 600-700 level from at least three of the following areas.

No more than four courses can be counted from any one area:

• ____________ (1) Moral and political philosophy, broadly construed (e.g., 711, 712, 723, 780's)
  • (If more than one course is counted from this area, at least one course must be in contemporary moral theory.)
• ____________ (2) metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology (e.g., 731, 732, 780's)

•  ____________(3) logic, philosophy of language (e.g., 703, 705,/780's)

•  ____________(4) philosophy of natural and social science (780's)

•  ____________(5) philosophy of religion, aesthetics, etc. (e.g., 604, 780's)

• ____________ Total

Additional Requirements

(At discretion of Dissertation Committee)

Cognate

• ____________ Required by Dissertation Committee

• ____________ Completed

Language Requirement

• ____________ Required by Dissertation Committee

• ____________ Completed

Optional Internship

• ____________ PHIL 797 Supervised Practicum

• ____________ PHIL 791 Directed Research

• ____________ Internship report (Oral Defense of report)

Preliminary Examination/Dissertation Prospectus

• ____________ [Normally taken before the end of the eighth semester of the program (excluding summers, including the first two years].

Dissertation

• ____________