Philosophy

Philosophy GE requirement

Only CMC courses numbered 59 and below fulfill the College’s general education requirement in philosophy. These are the GE courses:

  • PHIL 030 CM - Philosophical Questions (similar to Intro to Philosophy)
  • PHIL 033 CM - Political Philosophy
  • PHIL 034 CM - Moral and Political Issues
  • PHIL 036 CM - Philosophy of Religion

Like other departments, we have considered carefully which courses are and are not appropriate for a GE. If you wish to receive GE credit for a course not on the list above, there are two possibilities, both requiring approval from the chair; please read and follow these directions carefully:

  1. With the approval of the department chair, students who take a Freshman Humanities Seminar (FHS  010 CM) taught by a member of the CMC Department of Philosophy (only Davis, Hurley, Kind, Kreines, Rajczi, Obdrzalek, Locke, Schroeder; no others count, and there are no exceptions on this point) may satisfy the general education requirement in philosophy with any CMC philosophy other than PHIL 095 CM - Fundamentals of Logic or PHIL 198 CM -Senior Seminar in Philosophy. For approval, please let the chair know by email or in office hours who taught your FHS and which CMC philosophy course you wish to count.
  2. Courses at other institutions might sometimes count, at the discretion of the chair. The course must be taught by a member of a Philosophy department (e.g. not just Religious Studies, Politics, History, etc.) and offered by a Philosophy department. It should be similar to one of the CMC GE courses listed above, and not more similar to some other CMC course which does not count for Philosophy GE credit (e.g. no Philosophy of Law course can count, for this reason). If you wish to petition under this rule, please provide the chair by email or at office hours with a course description, a link to the course description on the web, the department offering the course, the professor teaching the course and which department(s) they belong to, and an explanation of which course on the list above you think is similar.