Philosophy at George Mason University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PHIL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 19 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 61 more PHIL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on PHIL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PHIL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 372

  1. PHIL 271How Science Works
  2. PHIL 371Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
  3. PHIL 372Conceptual Foundations of the Life Sciences

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 429

  1. GOVT 101Democratic Theory and Practice
  2. GOVT 323Classical Western Political Theory
  3. PHIL 429Advanced Topics in Social and Political Philosophy

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 332

  1. PHIL 303History of Western Philosophy: Modern
  2. PHIL 332Issues in Analytic Philosophy

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 376

  1. MATH 110Introductory Probability
  2. PHIL 376Symbolic Logic

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHIL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHIL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Philosophy does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GMU campus feed.