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General Information Undergraduate Curriculum Philosophy Major Requirements (1) Total credit requirements by track - Multiple Major Track: Min. of 36 credits - Major Concentration Track: Min. of 48 credits - Practical Major Track: Min. of 45 credits - Teacher Training Track: Min. of 51 credits (2) All philosophy majors are required to take at least 12 credits among the required major courses (PHI2001-PHI2008). (3) Multiple majors are required to take a minimum of 36 credits, including 12 required and 24 general major courses. (4) Concentration majors are required to take a minimum of 48 credits, including 12 required, 24 general major and 12 major concentration courses (PHI4001-PHI4019, 4034-4035). (5) Practical majors are required to take a minimum of 45 credits, including 12 required, 24 general major and 9 practical major courses (PHI4020-PHI4033). Course Completion Roadmap Acad. 1st Semester 2nd Semester Year COR1001 2 Select one from the below: 3 COR1003 3 TLS1001-1006 Select one from the below: 3 Select one from the below: 3 - ETS2001 - ETS2004, - ETS2001 - ETS2004, - CHS2001 - CHS2005 - CHS2001 – CHS2005 Select one from the below: 3 Select one from the below: 3 - SHS2001 - SHS2007 - STS2001 – STS2006, 1 Select one from the below: 3 2010, STU4011 - STS2001 - STS2006, 2010 Select one from the below: 3 - LCS2001–,2003,2005,2007 Select one from the below: 3 Others 7 - LCS2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 Others 2 Total 19 Total 19 Select one from the below: 3 Others 19 - HFS2001-HFS2003 2 Others 16 Total 19 3 Others 19 Others 19 4 Others 19 Others 19 *Note: “Others” may be selected among major courses, compulsory electives and general electives. Sogang University General Bulletin PHI2001 Introduction to Philosophy 3 cr. of logic, i.e. argument, validity and truth; (lect.: 3hr) introduces the predicate logic, which is A general introduction of philosophy, different from Aristotle’s logic; and including what philosophy is, what examines fallacies. relationships philosophy has with other social sciences, what problems philosophy PHI2006 Metaphysics 3 cr. deals with, and what philosophical (lect.: 3hr) thinking is. An in-depth study of metaphysics, including the systematic ordering and PHI2002 Introduction to 3 cr. development of perennial questions from Oriental Philosophy Ancient Greece to the present, concerning (lect.: 3hr) being and existence; change and movement; A general survey of thoughts, theories intrinsic and extrinsic principles of being; and methods of Oriental philosophy. Oriental kinds of causality; and immanence and philosophy mainly consists of three streams: transcendence. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Confu- cianism is divided into the original PHI2007 Epistemology 3 cr. Confucianism, Han-Tang Confucianism and (lect.: 3hr) Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism; Taoism is A philosophical investigation into the divided into Lao-Chuang’s thoughts and possibilities, and limits of human Neo-Taoism; and Buddhism is divided into perception; the structure and accuracy of Indian, Chinese and Korean Buddhism. knowledge; the nature and standards of the truth; and the possibilities, conditions PHI2003 History of 3 cr. and requirements regarding perception of Western Philosophy the truth. This course also examines (lect.: 3hr) philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, British A holistic survey of Western philo- empiricism, continental rationalism, the sophy, from ancient Greek philosophy to construction theory of Immanuel Kant and modern philosophy. contemporary theories on epistemology; it also critically reviews relativism and PHI2004 History of 3 cr. skepticism. Korean Philosophy (lect.: 3hr) PHI2008 Ethics 3 cr. A historical survey of the development (lect.: 3hr) of Korean philosophical traditions from A general study of the concepts of ancient times to the present, including the human happiness and obligations, based on philosophy of Korean Buddhists (Seungrang, the basic concepts of ethics, responsibilities, Woncheuk, Wonhyo, Uisang and Jinul), the conscience, the norm, happiness and philosophy of Korean Confucianists (Suh self-analysis. This course also critically Kyungduk, Yi Eon-jeok, Yi Toigye, Yi examines ideas of Aristotle, the Stoic Yulgok and later confucianists), the Study School, the Epicurus School, Utilitarianism, of Rites and philosophers, and Korean Kant’s Ethics, ethical relativism and philosophers before the introduction of skepticism; it discusses the nature of Western philosophy. ethics, rationality and autonomy, and the limitations of ethical deduction. PHI2005 Introduction to Logic 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) PHI3001 History of 3 cr. A general introduction to methods to Ancient Western Philosophy distinguish reasonable deduction/induction (lect.: 3hr) from unreasonable ones. This course A survey of translated Greek and particularly focuses on the basic concepts Roman philosophies between 6th century Undergraduate Curriculum BC and 5th century AD, including patristic philosophy and major works, and naturalist philosophy, Sophist, Socrates, his influence on the history of Western Plato, Aristotle, Philon, Stoa, Epicurus philosophy. and Plotinus. PHI3008 Thomism 3 cr. PHI3002 History of Medieval 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) European Philosophy An in-depth analysis on Thomas (lect.: 3hr) Aquinas’s ideas, thoughts and theories, A historical survey of the philosophy of and his influence on Western philosophy. the Middle Ages, from the revival of His Scholar philosophy is a unique Christianity to the dawn of the Renai- integration of Aristotle and Christian ssance, including Augustine, Eriugena, philosophies and suggests a turning point Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura of the medieval philosophy. His idea was and Duns Scotus. This course also passed down to the six great thinkers of examines developments of different philo- the 20th century. A study on Thomas sophies, such as the Scholar and Aquinas’s original books may be Artistotle’s. accompanied. PHI3003 History of Modern 3 cr. PHI3009 Continental Rationalism 3 cr. European Philosophy (lect.: 3hr) (lect.: 3hr) Continental rationalism insists that A general survey of modern European knowledge is a product of reason. This philosophers, including Descartes, Spinoza, course includes a survey of rationalism Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant from Descartes through to Spinoza and and Hegel. Leibniz. PHI3004 History of 3 cr. PHI3010 British Empiricism 3 cr. Contemporary Philosophy (lect.: 3hr) (lect.: 3hr) British empiricism insists that knowledge A historical survey of philosophical is a product of senses. This course currents after Hegel, particularly positivism, includes a survey of empiricism from pragmatism, phenomenology, existentialism, Locke to Berkeley and Hume. structuralism, naturalism, realism and analytic philosophy. PHI3011 German Idealism 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) PHI3005 Platonism 3 cr. A general survey of German Idealism (lect.: 3hr) and its problems and historic developments, An in-depth study on Plato’s philosophy from Kant, Fichte, Schelling to Hegel. This and theories, and his impact on later course mainly discusses the relationship philosophers, based on the knowledge between theory and reality, problems of about ancient Western philosophy. ego and subjects, relations between nature and spirit, the existence of the Absolute PHI3006 Aristotle 3 cr. being, and the existence and historic (lect.: 3hr) matters of human beings. An in-depth study on Aristotle’s philosophy and its impact on Western PHI3012 Contemporary French 3 cr. philosophy, particularly the Scholar school. Philosophy (lect.: 3hr) PHI3007 Philosophy of Augustine 3 cr. A study of 20th century French (lect.: 3hr) philosophy, including Bergson, Albert An in-depth analysis on Augustine's Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Lévi-Strauss, Sogang University General Bulletin Merleau Ponty and Michel Foucault, upto Bergson and Dilthey. This course includes Neo-Thomism philosophers such as examinations on willingness and life, Jacques Maritain and Étienne Gilson. organism and mechanism, and reason and anti-reason. PHI3013 Contemporary German 3 cr. Philosophy PHI3019 Philosophical Theory 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) of God A study of modern German philosophies (lect.: 3hr) after Idealism, including the philosophy of A philosophical investigation of God's life, the Kant School, hermeneutics, existence, nature and actions. This course existentialism, phenomenology, conversation includes classic and modern theories on philosophy and Thomism. God’s existence, the nature of God, faith, Creationism, prophecy and providence. PHI3014 Aesthetics 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) PHI3020 Existentialism 3 cr. The concept of beauty and art in (lect.: 3hr) ancient times and the Medieval Ages, and Modern existentialism arose in opposition the origin and development of modern to the overall European philosophy, that is, aesthetics. from the existentialism of Augustine and Pascal, and Hegel’s idea to German PHI3015 Ontology 3 cr. Idealism. This course includes examinations (lect.: 3hr) on the formation of existentialism and the The history of the ontological approach theories of Aabye Kierkegaard, Martin from ancient times to the present. Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. PHI3016 Phenomenology 3 cr. (lect.: 3hr) PHI3021 Social Philosophy 3 cr. A survey of phenomenological philo- (lect.: 3hr) sophers, such as Martin Heidegger, A critical study of the philosophical Merleau Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas. reflections on social science, ideals of This course examines perception issues, society, social structure, equality, legal and reduction in transcendentalism, the noema
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