Philosophy at University of California, San Diego

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 120Symbolic Logic Iopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• SYN 1Communicating for a Changing Planetopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• SYN 1RCommunicating for a Changing Planetopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• PHIL 111History of Philosophy: Early Modernopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PHIL 27Ethics 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 27 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 132 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.

• 5 courses deep, ending at PHIL 28

  1. SYN 1RCommunicating for a Changing Planet
  2. SYN 1Communicating for a Changing Planet
  3. PHIL 27Ethics and Society
  4. PHIL 28Ethics and Society II

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 112

  1. PHIL 110History of Philosophy: Ancient
  2. PHIL 111History of Philosophy: Early Modern
  3. PHIL 112History of Philosophy: Late Modern

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHIL 122

  1. PHIL 10Introduction to Logic
  2. PHIL 120Symbolic Logic I
  3. PHIL 122Advanced Topics in Logic

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 106

  1. PHIL 32Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science
  2. PHIL 106Kant

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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