Philosophy at University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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 5201Symbolic Logic Iopens 9 courses (5 directly)
• PHIL 5202Symbolic Logic IIopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• PHIL 4231Philosophy of Languageopens 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 26 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 166 more PHIL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

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.

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHIL 5221

  1. PHIL 1001Intro to Logic
  2. PHIL 5201Symbolic Logic I
  3. PHIL 5202Symbolic Logic II
  4. PHIL 5221Phil Logic

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHIL 8180

  1. PHIL 1001Intro to Logic
  2. PHIL 5201Symbolic Logic I
  3. PHIL 4231Philosophy of Language

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 5311

  1. PHIL 1003WIntro to Ethics
  2. PHIL 5311History of Moral Theories

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 8110

  1. PHIL 4101Metaphysics
  2. PHIL 8110Sem: Metaphysics

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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