Philosophy: Philosophy, Politics & Policy

Philosophy, Politics & Policy Program

This interdisciplinary program allows students to double major in philosophy and political science more easily than they would be able to if they did each of the majors outside of the program. In addition to philosophy and political science courses, it involves three economics courses, a tutorial in the spring of the junior year to prepare them for their thesis and a thesis in the fall of the senior year. The thesis is a policy analysis that includes both philosophical and political perspectives. It would be advised by two faculty members, one from each department.

Required Courses:

PHL 150: Introductory Philosophy
PHL 220: Ethics
PHL 3xx: Any of the metaphysics courses
PHL 413: Socio-Political Philosophy
PHL 421: Logic
PHL 471: Ancient Philosophy
PHL 473: Modern Philosophy
ECN 120: Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECN 121: Introduction to Microeconomics
ECN 320: Intermediate Macroeconomics
POL 200: Introduction to United States Politics
POL 201: Introduction to International Relations
POL 202: Modern Foreign Governments
POL 300: Political Inquiry and Analysis
POL 312: Western Political Theory
POL 335: American Public Policy
PHL/POL 490: junior year tutorial (pre-requisites: ECN 120, 121, and xxx or 325)
PHL/POL 499: senior thesis

Students would then need to take 7 classes from among the following, four from Political Science and three from Philosophy (At least one of the POL courses must be 400 level. At least one of the POL courses must be Comparative Politics, one must be American Government, and one must be International Relations):

PHL 412: Philosophy of Law
PHL 413: Socio-Political Philosophy
PHL 414: Philosophy and Feminism
PHL 422: Philosophy of Science
PHL 430: Advanced Ethics
PHL 431: Ethics and Peace
PHL 434: Environmental Ethics
PHL 435: Bioethics
PHL 472: Medieval Philosophy
PHL 474: Hegel and 19^th Century Philosophy
PHL 479: Existentialism
POL 314: American Political Thought
POL 316: Politics and Literature
POL 318: Politics and Film
POL 320: United States Urban Politics
POL 333: Public Administration
POL 356: Building World Peace
POL 378: States, Market, and the Environment
POL 405: Law and the American Judiciary
POL 415: Congress and the Legislative Process
POL 453: Great Powers and Their Foreign Policies
POL 470: Comparative Immigration
POL 472: Culture, Community, and Political Organization
POL 497: Political Internship
Other courses with the permission of the Department Chairs

Note that two of the philosophy classes, one political science class, and one economics class count for the University core. Additionally, one philosophy class counts for the CAS core, three of the upper division classes from either could count as upper division electives, and the upper division economics course could also count as an upper division elective.