Admission requirements

1. Applicants for the grad track option must be students in the UNT College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences pursuing the Bachelor of Arts in philosophy degree.
2. Students may apply for the grad track option during their junior year and must have completed at least 75 credit hours at the time of application to grad track.
3. Minimum of 3.5 cumulative GPA required at the time of application submission.
4. The student will provide two recommendation forms from philosophy and religion faculty members who can evaluate the student’s ability to complete graduate level work.
5. The application will be reviewed by the philosophy and religion curriculum committee and the undergraduate and graduate advisors.

Requirements

Students in the grad track program may select up to 6 hours of 5000-level PHIL courses to fulfill the 6 hours of advanced philosophy courses required for the BA degree in Philosophy.  Students may select the remaining courses (up to 12 hours total) from 5000-level PHIL courses chosen to align with the required courses for the major in Philosophy.  These courses can be comprised from the following Groups.  If none of these courses are available, the student may select suitable alternatives with approval from the Director of Graduate Studies and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. 

Group A - Environmental Philosophy

• PHIL 5000 - Environmental Ethics (for PHIL 4700 ) or
• PHIL 5010 - Seminar in the Philosophy of Ecology (for PHIL 4450 ) or
• PHIL 5700 - Environmental Philosophy (for PHIL 4740 ) or
• PHIL 5800 - Philosophies of Climate Change (for PHIL 3475 ) 

Group B - History of Philosophy

• PHIL 5100 - Ancient Philosophy (for PHIL 3310 ) or
• PHIL 5200 - Modern Philosophy (for PHIL 3330 ) or
• PHIL 5250 - Topics in the History of Philosophy or
• PHIL 5900 - Special Problems

Group C - Normativity and Values

• PHIL 5150 - Feminist Philosophy (for PHIL 4150 )
• PHIL 5300 - Social and Political Philosophy (for PHIL 3120 ) or
• PHIL 5400 - Seminar in Ethical Theory (for PHIL 3400 ) or 
• PHIL 5500 - Philosophy of Science and Technology (for PHIL 3450 )

Group D - Philosophy of Religion

• PHIL 5600 - Philosophy of Religion (for PHIL 3600 ) or
• PHIL 5650 - Asian Philosophies and Religions in Practice (for PHIL 3620  )

All remaining courses for Philosophy, BA  must be completed.

Note

Student progress will be monitored on a semester-by-semester basis by the directors of graduate and undergraduate studies. Students must meet with each of the directors and must maintain a 3.0 GPA in the graduate coursework. Students must complete the bachelor’s degree prior to being fully admitted to the MA in philosophy. A student can take a maximum of 12 hours of graduate courses through the grad track pathway.