Philosophy Minor Requirements
A total of 15 credit hours are required for the minor in Philosophy.
The Philosophy Minor requires 15 credits, 9 of which must be upper-division.
For detailed requirements, restrictions, allowances, and recommendations, please see the University of Colorado Denver CATALOG page: https://catalog.ucdenver.edu/cu-denver/undergraduate/schools-colleges-departments/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy/philosophy-minor/#degreerequirementstext
Philosophy of Science Minor Requirements
The Philosophy of Science Minor requires 15 credits, 9 of which must be upper-division.
For detailed requirements, restrictions, allowances, and recommendations, please see the University of Colorado Denver CATALOG page: https://catalog.ucdenver.edu/cu-denver/undergraduate/schools-colleges-departments/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy/philosophy-science-minor/#degreerequirementstext
Ethics Minor Requirements
The Ethics Minor requires 15 credits, 6 of which must be upper-division.
For detailed requirements, restrictions, allowances, and recommendations, please see the University of Colorado Denver CATALOG page: https://catalog.ucdenver.edu/cu-denver/undergraduate/schools-colleges-departments/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy/ethics-minor/#degreerequirementstext
Interested students should contact the Undergraduate Department Advisor to help understand the different options Philosophy offers.
Related Minors in Interdisciplinary Fields
The Minor in Law Studies at UCD is an interdisciplinary course of studies intended to help students become intelligent and critical scholars of legal and political discourse. While the minor may be useful for students contemplating law school, it is also intended to appeal to a wider group of students interested in issues relating to law and society and careers in public policy-related fields.
Social justice is a goal of every healthy society and the best guarantee for sustaining peace. Achieving social justice involves the creation a global society where all members are granted the same basic human rights and equal access to public resources. This Area believes that twenty-first century students need global perspectives on citizenship that are informed by and can contribute to processes of civic engagement locally and in all parts of the world. The Social Justice program encourages our students to recognize how race, class, and gender intersect with citizenship. It reinforces the many ways that our students are already engaged as citizens. And it helps solidify their power to effect change.
Social Justice has deep and extensive connections to the history of philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Aquinas, Locke, Mill, Dewey, Rawls, Nussbaum, Sandel, and Sen, to name just a handful. Thus, a variety of philosophy department courses can apply to the Social Justice minor, including PHIL 3200 Social and Political Philosophy, PHIL 3280 War and Morality, PHIL 3500 - Ideology & Culture: Race & Sex, PHIL 4101/5101 Classical American Philosophy: Pragmatism, and PHIL 4920/5920 Philosophy of Media and Technology. Other courses may also count once the approval of an advisor is given.
Questions of sustainability are currently among the most important facing humankind and are receiving tremendous attention in the media, in government, and in international planning circles. Issues of sustainability do not arise from single causes, nor can solutions be developed based from within narrow disciplinary frameworks. The UCD College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has created the Minor in Sustainability to provide students with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills in this critically important area.