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Philosophy Courses satisfying UNC General Education Requirements*

*Please Note: any Honors section of a course listed below satisfies the same requirement

The Philosophy Department offers courses that meet the following General Education requirements:

Philosophical and Moral Reasoning (PH)
World Before 1750 (WB)
North Atlantic World (NA)
Quantitative Intensive (QI)
Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
Social and Behavioral Sciences—non-historical (SS)
U.S. Diversity (US)
Physical and Life Sciences (PL)
Communication Intensive (CI)
Experiential Education (EE)
Global (GL)

Philosophical and Moral Reasoning (PH)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 051	FYS: Who Was Socrates?	PHIL 164	Morality and Business
PHIL 052	FYS: Reason and Religion at the Dawn of Modern Science	PHIL 165	Bioethics
PHIL 053	FYS: Theories of Human Nature	PHIL 170	Social Ethics and Political Thought
PHIL 055	FYS: Paradoxes	PHIL 185	Introduction to Aesthetics
PHIL 056	FYS: Abortion	PHIL 213	Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 057	FYS: Race and Affirmative Action	PHIL 215	Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 058	FYS: From Vengeance to Mercy: Dealing with Evil	PHIL 224	Existential Philosophy
PHIL 066	FYS: Ethics: Theoretical and Practical	PHIL 266	Ethics of Sports
PHIL 067	FYS: Issues in a World Society: Sports and Competition	PHIL 272	The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense* *Cross-listed as POLI 272, PWAD 272
PHIL 068	FYS: Moral Life	PHIL 273	Social and Economic Justice
PHIL 076	FYS: Is Free Will and Illusion?	PHIL 275	Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society
PHIL 077	FYS: Moral Weakness and Conscience	PHIL 280	Morality and Law
PHIL 078	FYS: Death as a Problem for Philosophy: Metaphysical and Ethical	PHIL 360	History of Ethics
PHIL 079	FYS: Words that Bind: The Structure of Constitutions	PHIL 364	Ethics and Economics* *Cross-listed as PLCY 364
PHIL 085	FYS: Reason, Religion, and Reality in Copernican Revolution	PHIL 368	Environmental Ethics* *Cross-listed as ENST 368
PHIL 101	Introduction to Philosophy: Main Problems	PHIL 370	Political Philosophy
PHIL 110	Introduction to Philosophy: Great Works	PHIL 460	Selected Topics in the History of Moral Philosophy
PHIL 112	Making Sense of Ourselves	PHIL 462	Contemporary Moral Philosophy
PHIL 134	Philosophy of Religion* *Cross-listed as RELI 126	PHIL 470	Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Rousseau
PHIL 145	Language and Communication	PHIL 474	Modern Political Philosophy
PHIL 160	Introduction to Ethics	PHIL 476	Recent Developments in Political Philosophy
PHIL 163	Practical Ethics	PHIL 480	Philosophy of Law
		PHIL 560	Ethics Bowl

World Before 1750 (WB)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 051	FYS: Who Was Socrates?	PHIL 215	Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 210	Ancient Philosophy	PHIL 220	Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Hume
PHIL 213	Asian Philosophy	PHIL 412	Plato

North Atlantic World (NA)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 051	FYS: Who Was Socrates?	PHIL 224	Existential Philosophy
PHIL 054	FYS: Thinking About Time	PHIL 228	American Philosophy
PHIL 215	Medieval Philosophy	PHIL 272	The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense* *Cross-listed as POLI 272, PWAD 272
PHIL 220	Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Hume

Quantitative Intensive (QI)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 065	FYS: Philosophy through Mathematics	PHIL 356	Topics in Mathematical Logic
PHIL 155	Introduction to Mathematical Logic	PHIL 357	Induction, Probability, and Confirmation
PHIL 157	Logic and Decision Theory

Quantitative Reasoning (QR)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 155	Introduction to Mathematical Logic	PHIL 356	Topics in Mathematical Logic
PHIL 157	Logic and Decision Theory	PHIL 357	Induction, Probability, and Confirmation

Social and Behavioral Sciences—non-historical (SS)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 063	FYS: Mind, Brain, and Consciousness	PHIL 345	Reference and Meaning
PHIL 154	Philosophy of Social Sciences	PHIL 453	Philosophy of Psychology
PHIL 353	Philosophy of Cognitive Science

U.S. Diversity (US)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 274	African-American Political Philosophy	PHIL 473	American Political Philosophy
PHIL 275	Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society	PHIL 475	Philosophical Issues in Gender, Race, and Class* *Cross-listed as WMST 475

Physical and Life Sciences (PL)

Course	Course Title	Course	Course Title
PHIL 150	Philosophy of Science	PHIL 352	Philosophy of Biology

Communication Intensive (CI)

Course	Course Title
PHIL 397	Colloquium for Philosophy Majors

Experiential Education (EE)

Course	Course Title
PHIL 560	Ethics Bowl

Global (GL)

Course	Course Title
PHIL 272	The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense* *Cross-listed as POLI 272, PWAD 272