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Department of Humanities
SUGGESTED THREE-YEAR STUDY PLAN:
Year I - 32 credits
Fall
HST205
Historical Tools (prerequisite for all
history courses)
3
HST221 Greece and Rome (Required) 3
ENG202 Sophomore Rhetoric 3
PHL201 Ancient Philosophy 3
-- LAC Arts 3
HLT201 Basic Health 1
Total
16cr
Spring
HST231
Lebanon Imarah to 1975-90 War
(Required)
3
HST240
History of the Arab Peoples
(Required)
3
ENG203
Fundamentals of Oral
Communication
3
ARA201 Appreciation of Arabic Literature 3
-- LAC Social Science 3
CSC201 Computer Applications 1
Total
16cr
Year II - 32 credits
Fall
HST242 Europe and the Middle East 3
HST302 Medieval Europe (Required) 3
HST330 History of Byzantium 3
-- LAC Literature 3
-- LAC Science 3
PED101 Physical Education elective 1
Total
16cr
Spring
HST331 History of Russia 3
HST303 Early Modern Europe 3
HST340 Topics in History of Ideas 3
-- LAC Humanities 3
ETH 201 Moral Reasoning 1
Free Elective 3
Total
16cr
Year III - 28 credits
Fall
HST499 Senior Study 3
HST342 Topics in History of Religion 3
HST334 History of North America 3
-- LAC Humanities 3
Free Elective 3
Total
15cr
Spring
HST408 Comparative Nationalisms 3
Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3
Free Elective 1
Total
13cr
Total Program
92cr
BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A.) IN
PHILOSOPHY
MISSION
The philosophy program at LAU intends to offer
a course of study that will produce outstanding
graduates prepared to approach life’s
challenges, interpersonally and professionally,
with the greatest possible variety of supple and
far reaching frameworks for reflection, thought,
decision, and action.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The purpose of the Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
program is to
1. Produce graduates who have: superior
critical and analytical capacities; the ability
to read and understand some of the most
difficult and profound texts ever written;
excellent writing abilities; and courageous
proclivities for truly independent thinking.
2. Not merely to help students acquire a
particular set of skills (although this will
be one outcome of the sustained practice
of closely reading and thinking about
extremely difficult texts, and attempting
to write clearly, penetratingly, and
persuasively about them), but also to foster
an open-minded, tolerant, and receptive
outlook on what it is to be human.
3. Help students to develop the ability to
think clearly and reflect deeply about their
individual lives, their communities, the
world around them, and what it all means.
The emergence of a substantial number of
such individuals could have a meaningful
and highly constructive impact on the
relevant cultural, social, and political
surroundings.
4. Prepare our students to enter the job
market with corporations and other large
international organizations who have
been clamoring for better educated and
more cultured employees capable of
thinking for themselves, strong in their
communication and comprehension skills.
Experience has taught those employers
that majors in fields such as philosophy,
English, and history that such individuals
have repeatedly excelled at their jobs in
banking, finance, law, economics, and
international relations.
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