Philosophy at Liberty University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHIL coursework.

• PHIL 201Philosophy and Contemporary Ideasopens 4 courses (0.3 directly)
• PHIL 310Symbolic Logicopens 4 courses (0.3 directly)
• PHIL 405Freedom and Societyopens 1 course (1 directly)

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 23 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 2 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 420

  1. ENGL 101Composition and Rhetoric
  2. PHIL 201Philosophy and Contemporary Ideas
  3. PHIL 420Epistemology

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 491

  1. PHIL 200Pursuits of Happiness
  2. PHIL 405Freedom and Society
  3. PHIL 491Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Capstone

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 310

  1. PHIL 210Logic
  2. PHIL 310Symbolic 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 Liberty campus feed.