Objectives
Los objetivos principales del programa de Pregrado en Filosofía son:
- Developing critical awareness of students for understanding and argumentation in matters of their interest.
- Promoting among professors and students venues for confrontation of different philosophical perspectives.
- Enabling the development of their own path for reflection upon concrete problems.
- Providing a complementary preparation in areas other than philosophical reflection.
Study Plan
The Program has a minimum duration of eight semesters, during which students must complete a total of 123 credits organized as follows:
Systematic Area (12 credits)
It provides the methodological tools to access texts and philosophical problems. It is made u of the following courses:
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Logics I
- Logics II
- Linguistics
Philosophy Education Area (60 credits)
Historical education on philosophy: it aims at understanding problems and proposals by the main representatives of ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophical tradition, providing a global vision of Western philosophical thinking throughout its history. It is composed of the following courses:
On Ancient Philosophy
Plato
Aristotle
On Modern Philosophy
Descartes
Empiricism
Kant
Hegel
On Contemporary Philosophy
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Analytical Philosophy
Complementary philosophy education: through courses and seminars, it promotes further knowledge and research on trends, schools of thought and philosophical problems with special focus on current discussions in different areas: ethics, aesthetics, theories of knowledge and language. It is composed of the following courses:
- 4 elective courses on Philosophy *
- 5 elective seminars on Philosophy **
- Degree Paper
Area of Complementary Education (48 credits)
Ancient language: It allows students to understand the languages in which philosophical thinking was originated, enabling direct access to its sources. It comprises:
4 levels of Greek or Latin
Basic Year on Social Sciences
It allows students to learn theoretical and methodological problems that are common to social sciences, as well as core subjects in the study of man and society. Students must take three courses in the basic year in the following areas: classical thinkers, political economy, contemporary theory, philosophy and history of sciences, Colombian issues.
Uniandes Basic Cycle (CBU) and Elective Courses
Elective Courses: They introduce and educate students in problems and broad issues of knowledge, promoting interdisciplinary studies and laying the groundwork for a subsequent option of double program with another degree course. They include:
- 3 CBU courses type A (1 in each of the 3 areas: science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences)
- 3 CBU courses type B (maximum 2 in the same area)
- 3 additional elective courses (Students can choose three subjects from all the courses offered by the University)
* List of some elective courses on philosophy that the Department has offered in recent years: Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy of Sciences, Political Philosophy of Empiricism, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature; Pre-Socratics, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Rawls, W. Benjamin, Derrida, Philosophy and War, Philosophy and Art, Sartre: The Relation with the Other.
** List of some elective seminars on philosophy that the Department has offered in recent years: Gadamer's Aesthetics Elster: Alchemies of the Mind, Freud-Marcuse, Sartre: Freedom, Nussbaum: Reason and Emotions, Seminar on Marx, Seminar on Nietzsche, Seminar on Rorty, Putnam: Values, Facts, Seminar on Hermeneutics and listening, Seminar on the sublime, Seminar on Philosophy of Science, Seminar on Philosophy of the Renaissance, Seminar on Latin American Philosophy, Seminar: Naturalism.
Area of Complementary Education (48 credits)
Ancient language: It allows students to understand the languages in which philosophical thinking was originated, enabling direct access to its sources. It comprises:
4 levels of Greek or Latin
Basic Year on Social Sciences
It allows students to learn theoretical and methodological problems that are common to social sciences, as well as core subjects in the study of man and society. Students must take three courses in the basic year in the following areas: classical thinkers, political economy, contemporary theory, philosophy and history of sciences, Colombian issues.
Uniandes Basic Cycle (CBU) and Elective Courses
Elective Courses: They introduce and educate students in problems and broad issues of knowledge, promoting interdisciplinary studies and laying the groundwork for a subsequent option of double program with another degree course. They include:
- 3 CBU courses type A (1 in each of the 3 areas: science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences)
- 3 CBU courses type B (maximum 2 in the same area)
- 3 additional elective courses (Students can choose three subjects from all the courses offered by the University)
* List of some elective courses on philosophy that the Department has offered in recent years: Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy of Sciences, Political Philosophy of Empiricism, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature; Pre-Socratics, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Rawls, W. Benjamin, Derrida, Philosophy and War, Philosophy and Art, Sartre: The Relation with the Other.
** List of some elective seminars on philosophy that the Department has offered in recent years: Gadamer's Aesthetics Elster: Alchemies of the Mind, Freud-Marcuse, Sartre: Freedom, Nussbaum: Reason and Emotions, Seminar on Marx, Seminar on Nietzsche, Seminar on Rorty, Putnam: Values, Facts, Seminar on Hermeneutics and listening, Seminar on the sublime, Seminar on Philosophy of Science, Seminar on Philosophy of the Renaissance, Seminar on Latin American Philosophy, Seminar: Naturalism.
Research or Concentration Areas
The Philosophy Department has research groups on different areas such as: logics, epistemology and philosophy of science; law, justice and democracy; politics and culture; aesthetics and politics; philosophy of war and hermeneutics.
Model Program
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Third Semester
Fourth Semester
Fifth Semester
Sixth Semester
Seventh Semester
Eighth Semester
| FILO-XXXX8 | Seminario Electivo Filosofía IV | 3 |
| CLE- | Curso de Libre Elección | 3 |
| FILO-3010 | Monograph Code | 3 |
| LENG-3999 | Requirement – Command of a Foreign Language | 0 |
| FILO-XXXX9 | Seminario Electivo Filosofía V | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Alumni Profile
Graduates from the degree course on Philosophy of the Universidad de los Andes will be able to practice in areas such as:
- Research, based on their philosophical education.
- Teaching, in an academic context, at basic and higher education level (undergraduate and graduate)
- Journalism in the editorial field.
- Similarly, many of our alumnae continue their philosophical education in Master's degrees and Doctorates in national and international universities, as well as other areas related to philosophy.
- Likewise, the skills learned in the basic philosophical education are useful and applicable to specific work in areas such as business, computers and technology, government, law and medicine.