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Curriculum

Detailed Course Descriptions

For details, descriptions, and a full listing of every course offered in the philosophy department, you can:

  • stop by the Philosophy Department (Humanities Building, First Floor),
  • check the current issue of the Creighton University Bulletin,

Philosophy uncovers truths by seeking illuminating concepts, investigating traditions, constructing arguments and testing assumptions, as well as by building, criticizing, and contemplating worldviews.  It investigates the nature of goodness, beauty, and justice, and explores the routes by which we and our world might become better and more just.

The Creighton University Department of Philosophy is committed to teaching and scholarship in both the history and problems of philosophy:  students must be educated in both in order to grasp the traditions and complexities of their world.  This education affords students the basis for integrating what they learn in other disciplines at Creighton University with what they lean throughout their lives.  It should, therefore, form a basis for a lifetime of learning.

 

Philosophy Majors

Students may complete the B.A., Major in Philosophy, with or without a specialization in ethics.  Students can apply for admission to the Philosophy Major or the Philosophy Major with Specialization in Ethics at the following address:  https://people.creighton.edu/~bjk79676/majorApp.php.          

(PHL Major Programs Mar 2011.pdf)

 

Philosophy Minors

Students may complete a minor program in Philosophy, Applied Ethics, or the History & Philosophy of Science.  Students may declare a minor program at the following address: https://people.creighton.edu/~bjk79676/MinorDec/minorDec.php.       

(PHL Minor programs Mar 2011 pdf)

 

Course Rotation

The Department of Philosophy tentatively plans to offer some of the key courses in its curriculum on a regular rotation.  The tentative course rotation is published for information only and is subject to change without notice.   

 (Tentative Rotation of upper-Level PHL Courses (2011-2015) pdf)