Sociology and Philosophy, BA (Boston)

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Sociology Required Courses

• SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology
• One of:
  • SOCL 2320 — Statistical Analysis in Sociology
  • INSH 3102 — Introduction to Statistics in the Social Sciences
• One of:
  • SOCL 2321 — Research Methods in Sociology
  • INSH 3101 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• SOCL 3300 — Social Theory

Electives

20 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete five SOCL courses numbered 2000-4999. At least three of those courses must be at or above the 3000 level.

Capstone

From the catalog

Students are expected to complete the following course in spring of their senior year:

• SOCL 4600 — Senior Seminar

Required Courses

• PHIL 1115 — Introduction to Logic
• One of:
  • PHIL 2325 — Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
  • POLS 2325 — Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
• PHIL 2330 — Modern Philosophy

Foundational Philosophy of Science Elective

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • PHIL 1105 — Science and Pseudoscience
  • PHIL 2001 — Ethics and Evolutionary Games
  • PHIL 3050 — Information and Uncertainty
  • PHIL 3360 — Scientific Approaches to Philosophy

Advanced Philosophy Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete two PHIL courses with a designation of 3000 or above not used to satisfy another requirement, and at least one at 4000 or 5000 level. Except PHIL 5110.

Critical Philosophy Elective

From the catalog

Take one of the following courses not used to fulfill another requirements:

• One of:
  • AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies
  • PHIL 1104 — Goddesses, Witches, Saints, and Sinners: Women and Religion
  • PHIL 1271 — Sex in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • PHIL 2155 — Human Rights
  • PHIL 2410 — Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Religions
  • PHIL 2619 — Race and Religion in Film
  • PHIL 3492 — Indigenous Philosophy
  • PHIL 3500 — Sexuality, Gender, and the Law
  • PHIL 3512 — Religion, Race, and Politics
  • PHIL 3822 — Philosophy of Race and Racism

Philosophy Elective

4 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete one additional PHIL course not used to satisfy other requirements.

Integrative Requirement

From the catalog

One integrative course is required for each discipline. Courses taken as electives above may not be used as integrative courses.

• One of:
  • PHIL 4500 — Theory of Knowledge
  • PHIL 4510 — Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 4550 — Philosophy of Economics
• SOCL 3450 — Class, Power, and Social Change

GPA requirements

• Minimum 2.000 GPA required in all sociology courses
• Minimum 2.000 GPA required in all philosophy courses

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• PHIL 2325 ↔ POLS 2325 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under sociology-and-philosophy-ba-boston, and the official page is the authority.