Loading

BruinTree is an independent student project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by UCLA or the University of California. Where this comes from›

Course information comes from the public UCLA General Catalog. Requisites are read from UCLA’s published wording and can be incomplete or out of date — check the official catalog listing and your department adviser before you enroll.

UCLA, Bruin, and related marks are trademarks of The Regents of the University of California.

Report a problem

Anonymous, and it takes a sentence. This is the main way BruinTree finds out what it has got wrong.

What kind of problem

Sends this page’s address and your browser version. Nothing else.

PHILOS 22Introduction to Ethical Theory

Philosophy · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

See treeView official UCLA course listing ↗Find on Bruinwalk ↗

Not open for credit to students with credit for course 22W. Recommended or required for many upper-division courses in Group III.

Systematic introduction to ethical theory, including discussion of egoism, utilitarianism, justice, responsibility, meaning of ethical terms, relativism, etc. P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Checking the Schedule of Classes…

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Report a problem

About PHILOS 22. We read UCLA’s requisite wording by machine, and it gets things wrong.

What kind of problem

Sends this page’s address and your browser version. Nothing else.

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

PHILOS 22

  • PHILOS C115Kant
  • PHILOS 150Society and Morals
    • PHILOS 241Topics in Political Philosophy
  • RELIGN M175Topics in Philosophy of Religion
  • PHILOS 153ATopics in Ethical Theory: Normative Ethics
  • PHILOS C153BTopics in Ethical Theory: Metaethics
  • PHILOS 154Topics in Value Theory: Rationality and Action
  • PHILOS M175Topics in Philosophy of Religion
  • PHILOS C215Kant
  • PHILOS C253BTopics in Ethical Theory: Metaethics

9 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.