International Studies Core Courses (3 courses)
All courses are 4-units and must be taken for a letter grade of C- or better.
For Students Beginning the INTL Course Sequence in Fall 2024:
INTL 102 may be taken before INTL 101.
For ISP Students who have already taken INTL 101 and/or INTL 102 by Spring 2024:
INTL 102 may be taken before INTL 101. Both INTL 101 and INTL 102 must be completed before INTL 190. The INTL core courses must be taken at UC San Diego.
You may not take INTL 100 instead of INTL 190.
Disclaimer: For IS-Philosophy majors whose first quarter at UCSD was prior to Fall 2023, please refer to the archived Fall 2018 - Summer 2023 Disciplinary Focus course list (see below) in addition to the following list. Courses accepted for the major on the archived list and the current list will be accepted for majors whose first quarter was before Fall 2023.
All eight (8) courses must be 4 units, upper-division and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.
At least
two (2) of the eight (8) upper-division courses must be selected from
Course Cluster A.
Course Cluster A - History of Philosophy:
- PHIL 100. Plato
- PHIL 101. Aristotle
- PHIL 102. Hellenistic Philosophy
- PHIL 107. Hegel
- PHIL 110. History of Philosophy: Ancient (Plato, Aristotle)
- PHIL 111. History of Philosophy: Early Modern (Descartes, Locke, Hume)
- PHIL 112. History of Philosophy: Late Modern (Kant, Hegel)
- PHIL 155. Mexican Philosophy (DEI Course)
- PHIL 156. Latinx Philosophy
- PHIL 158. Topics in Chinese Philosophy*
- PHIL 161. Topics in the History of Ethics (Confucius, Aristotle, Mill)
- PHIL 166. Classics in Political Philosophy (Plato, Marx, Arendt)
- PHIL 169. Feminism and Philosophy*
- PHIL 180. Phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty)
At least two (2) of the eight (8) upper-division courses must be selected from Course Cluster B.
Course Cluster B - Philosophical Topics in Contemporary International Studies:
- PHIL 132. Epistemology*
- PHIL 136. Philosophy of Mind*
- PHIL 137. Moral Psychology*
- PHIL 138. Responsibility*
- PHIL 134. Philosophy of Language
- PHIL 139. Global Justice
- PHIL 148. Philosophy and the Environment
- PHIL 160. Ethical Theory
- PHIL 162. Contemporary Moral Issues
- PHIL 163. Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL 164. Technology and Human Values
- PHIL 165. Freedom, Equality, and the Law (DEI Course)
- PHIL 167. Contemporary Political Philosophy
- PHIL 170. Philosophy and Race (DEI Course)
- PHIL 173. Topics in Bioethics
At least one (1) of the eight (8) upper-division courses must be selected from Course Cluster C.
Course Cluster C - Logic Requirement:
- PHIL 120. Symbolic Logic I
- PHIL 122. Advanced Topics in Logic
- PHIL 123. Philosophy of Logic
The remaining three (3) courses can be any upper-division philosophy courses listed in Clusters A, B and C.
* Newly added course. Please send VAC message to ISP for degree audit update
All three (3) courses must be upper-division, 4 units and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.
Course Pre-requisites: Students are responsible for meeting all departmental pre-requisite courses. Please refer to the General Catalog for additional information.
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