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Graduate Student Requirements

2.4 The Course-Number Requirement

Before the Final Oral Examination on the dissertation, students must pass, with a grade of "B" or better, at least 16 courses offered by the Philosophy Department, where
  1. at least 12 of these 16 courses must be 700-level courses (see Course Descriptions), 800-level courses (see Course Descriptions), or either of the logic courses PHIL 650 or PHIL 652;

  2. none of the 16 courses may be PHIL 999 or PHIL 993 courses taken in connection with writing a dissertation. Any course that counts for distribution credit automatically counts for the course-number requirement.
Reading Course Policy. Ordinarily courses taken as 693 may not count towards the 16 required graduate courses. In special cases, however, 693 courses may count toward the permitted 600-level courses (see Course Descriptions) from the required 16. To have a 693 course count as one of the permitted 600-level courses, a student would have to file a petition with the graduate committee. Normally, such a petition would not be approved unless all of the items listed below are satisfied:
  1. The amount of student work required and the course content is appropriate for five hours of graduate study in philosophy at Ohio State.

  2. As indicated by the instructor of the 693 course, the student would have received a grade of B or better had the course been assigned a grade; and EITHER:

    1. the subject matter of the 693 course is ordinarily not covered in graduate courses in philosophy courses at Ohio State; OR,

    2. the student's schedule and/or program of study constrain(s) the student so that this subject matter needs to be covered in a 693 instead of in regular graduate courses.

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