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GROUP A  

In a given academic year at least one course will be offered which will deal with a certain problem or set of problems of concern to contemporary philosophers in the following areas: 

34-520. Ethical Theory 

34-521. Political Philosophy  

34-522. Philosophy of Law  

34-525. Topics in Practical and Applied Ethics 

34-540. Philosophy of Religion  

34-541. Philosophy of Science  

34-542. Philosophy of History  

34-543. Philosophy of Language  

34-544. Aesthetics 

34-550. Epistemology  

35-551. Metaphysics 

34-552. Philosophy of Mind 

34-560. Formal Logic  

34-561. Theory of Argument  

34-562. Theory of Informal Fallacies  

34-563. Theory and Teaching of Critical Thinking  

34-565 to 34-569.   Advanced Seminar: Selected Topics in Philosophy 
 
GROUP B 

In a given academic year there will be an intensive study of a given philosopher or philosophical issue from one or more of the following: 

34-570. Greek Philosophy  

34-571. Medieval Philosophy  

34-572. Renaissance Philosophy  

34-573. Seventeenth-Century Philosophy  

34-574. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy  

34-575. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy  

34-576. Foundations of Existentialism  

34-577. Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy 

34-578. Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Philosophy 

34-580 to 34-584.  Advanced Seminar: Selected Topics in the History of Philosophy 
 
GROUP C 

The following course must be taken by all M.A. students: 

34-590. Departmental Seminar: The History of Philosophy in Perspective. 
The aim of the seminar is to deepen students' sensitivity to the history of philosophy and help prepare them for the Master's examination in Philosophy. Each year a specific philosophical theme is traced through a number of key figures in the history of thought. 
 
GROUP D 

34-796. Major Paper  

34-797. Thesis 
 
Note: Students may receive credit for more than one course offered in Groups A and B provided that the emphasis is sufficiently different. Thus, for example, credit may be received for both "34-570 Greek Philosophy: Plato" and "34-570 Greek Philosophy: Aristotle" where these are entirely distinct course offerings.