Bachelor of Philosophy

Lumen Christi Institute currently offers a three year Bachelor degree course in Philosophy (B.A. in Philosophy). This course is affiliated to De Sales University, Allentown, PA. USA. The students who successfully complete the studies receive their certificate (B.A. in Philosophy) from De Sales University.

Each academic year is divided into two semesters-thus making six semesters in all. The programme consists of 109 credits including Dissertation (one credit equals 15 hours). The courses are organised in the form of lectures, discussions, seminars, extension lectures and assignments or papers. Of the total number of credits required in the 6 semesters, a certain number are set aside for the Introductory Courses while the others are for Systematic Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, African Philosophy, Religions, Human and Social Sciences, Seminars and presentation of Papers. After being introduced into philosophical reflection, the students study in depth all the important aspects of Philosophy.

B.A. IN PHILOSOPHY

SYLLABUS

First Year (Total 48 Credits)

No	Code	Subjects	Credits
1	SPH 01	Introduction to Philosophy	3
2	SPH 02	Logic	3
3	WPH 01	History of Ancient Western Philosophy	3
4	WPH 02	History of Medieval Philosophy	3
5	REL 01	Introduction to Sacred Scriptures	2
6	REL 02	Introduction to Liturgy	1
7	REL 03	Introduction to Spirituality	2
8	REL 04	Christian Doctrine	2
9	REL 05	Eastern Religions and Philosophy	2
10	HSS 01	General Methodology	2
11	HSS 02	Greco-Roman Culture	2
12	HSS 03	Philosophy of Life Sciences	3
13	HSS 04	Sociology	2
14	HSS 05	General Psychology	3
15	HSS 14	Information Technology	1
16	AFP 01	History of African Philosophy	2
17	LAN 01	Advanced English	2
18	LAN 02	Latin	2
19	LAN 03	French	2

Optional Courses

20	WPH 08	Plato’s Republic and Fedo	2
21	WPH 09	Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics	2
22	WPH 10	Thomas Aquinas’ Summa	2

Second Year (Total 52 Credits)

No	Code	Subjects	Credits
1	SPH 03	Epistemology	3
2	SPH 04	Metaphysics	3
3	SPH 05	Philosophy of Human Person/Anthropology	3
4	SPH 06	Ethics	3
5	WPH 03	History of Modern Western Philosophy	3
6	WPH 04	Contemporary Western Philosophy	3
7	REL 06	Islam	2
8	REL 07	Philosophy of Religion	2
9	REL 8	Salesian Thought	2
10	HSS 06	Theories of Personality	2
11	HSS 07	Inter-Personal Communication	2
12	HSS 08	Human Development	2
13	HSS 09	Philosophy of Education	2
14	HSS 10	Psychology of Religion	2
15	HSS 11	Philosophy of Communication	2
16	AFP 02	African Traditional Religions	2
17	AFP 03	African Socio-Political Thought	2
18	LAN 01	Advanced English II	2
19	LAN 04	German	2
20	SEM 01	Seminar	2

Optional Courses

21	WPH 11	Rousseau’s SocialContract	2
22	WPH 12	Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason	2
23	WPH 13	Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Spirit	2
24	WPH 14	Heidegger’s Being and Time	2

Third Year (Total 26 Credits)

No	Code	Subjects	Credits
1	SPH 07	Philosophy of Science and Cosmology	3
2	SPH 08	Philosophical Theology	2
3	SPH 9	Philosophical Hermeneutic	2
4	SPH 10	Philosophy of Aesthetics	2
5	SPH 11	Special Ethics	2
6	WPH 05	Marxism	2
7	WPH 06	Phenomenology & Existentialism	2
8	WPH 07	Postmodernism	2
9	HSS 12	Ecology and Environmental Philosophy	2
10	HSS 13	Democracy and Human Rights	2
11	AFP 04	Selected Readings in Contemporary African Philosophy	2
12		Term Paper	3