YANGON UNIVERSITY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY


Vision
To cultivate thought skills that are essential to the complexities of the modern world. To decide, to engage in rational discourses, and to promote wisdom and responsible citizenship
Mission
To be able to think logically and develop the spiritual and intellectual life.
To cultivate the students to be successful both in social and ethical life.
To be a patriotic, good and able citizen of the country.
PROGRAM OF STUDIES
– The Department offers undergraduate program of study leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, specializing in Philosophy.
– The academic B.A programme in philosophy is all conducted in English.
CURRICULUM & SYLLABUS
First Semester
မ ၁၀၀၁ | မြန်မာစာ |
Eng - 1001 | English |
Phil - 1101 | Deductive Logic I |
Phil - 1102 | Introduction to Western Philosophy I. |
မ ၁၀၀၅ | မြန်မာ့ရိုးရာပုံပြင်များ (၁) |
AM - 1001 | Aspects of Myanmar (မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ) |
Second Semester
မ ၁၀၀၂ | မြန်မာစာ |
Eng - 1002 | English |
Phil - 1103 | Deductive Logic II |
Phil - 1104 | Introduction to Western Philosophy II |
မ ၁၀၀၈ | မြန်မာ့ရိုးရာပုံပြင် ( ၂ ) |
AM - 1002 | Aspects of Myanmar (မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ) |
First Semester
Eng - 2001 | English |
Phil - 2101 | Eastern Philosophy I |
Phil - 2102 | Inductive Logic I |
Phil - 2103 | Twentieth Century Western Philosophy I |
Phil - 2104 | The Cultural and Ethical Aspects of Environmental Conservation I |
မ ၂၀၀၄ | မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးစာဆိုများနှင့် ၎င်းတို့၏စာများ ( ၁ ) |
Second Semester
Eng - 2002 | English |
Phil - 2106 | Eastern Philosophy II |
Phil - 2107 | Inductive Logic II |
Phil - 2108 | Twentieth Century Western Philosophy II |
Phil - 2109 | The Cultural and Ethical Aspects of Environmental Conservation II |
မ ၂၀၀၈ | မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးစာဆိုများနှင့် ၎င်းတို့၏စာများ ( ၂ ) |
First Semester
Eng - 3001 | English |
Phil - 3102 | Western Aesthetics |
Phil - 3103 | Advanced Logic I |
Phil - 3104 | Philosophy of History I |
Phil - 3105 | Myanmar Culture and Myanmar Ways of Thinking I |
Phil - 3106 | Ethics I - Theoretical Ethics |
Second Semester
Eng - 3002 | English |
Phil - 3107 | Eastern Aesthetics |
Phil - 3108 | Advanced Logic II |
Phil - 3109 | Philosophy of History II |
Phil - 3110 | Myanmar Culture and Myanmar Ways of Thinking II |
Phil - 3112 | Ethics II -Applied Ethics |
First Semester
Eng - 4001 | English |
Phil - 4101 | Philosophy of Religion I |
Phil - 4102 | Problems of Philosophy I |
Phil - 4103 | Philosophy of Science I |
Phil - 4104 | Research Methodology in Philosophy I |
Phil - 4106 | Political Philosophy (West) |
Second Semester
Eng - 4002 | English |
Phil - 4107 | Philosophy of Religion II |
Phil - 4108 | Problems of Philosophy II |
Phil - 4109 | Philosophy of Science II |
Phil - 4110 | Research Methodology in Philosophy II |
Phil - 4112 | Political Philosophy (East) |
PROVIDED DEGREES
– After successfully completing three years course, Bachelor of Arts ( B.A. ). degree will be provided for Philosophy Specialization.
TELEVISION PROGRAMMES
Subject Specialization | Lesson Name |
Phil - 1101 | Deductive Logic I,II: The Study of Propositions |
Phil - 1102 | Western Philosophy : Introduction to Western Philosophy |
Phil - 1101 | Logic in Practice I: Logic |
Phil - 2101 | Eastern Philosophy I: The Development of Indian Philosophy |
Phil - 2102 | Inductive Logic I: The Nature of Induction |
Phil - 2103 | Contemporary Western Philosophy I: The General Characteristics of Contemporary Western Philosophy |
Phil - 2104 | The Cultural and Ethical Aspect of Environmental Conservation I: Introduction to Environmental Conservation |
Phil - 2001 | History of Western Intellectual Development I: Philosophy, Myth and Religion |
Phil - 2004 | Philosophy of Law I: View of Greek Philosophers on Law |
Phil - 2003 | The Nature and Scope of Aesthetics |
Phil - 3101 | Western Aesthetics The Nature and Scope of Philosophy |
Phil - 3102 | Advanced Logic I: A Brief History of Logic |
Phil - 3103 | Philosophy of History I: The Nature of Philosophy of History |
Phil - 3104 | Myanmar Culture and Myanmar Ways of Thinking I: Nature and Definition of Ethics |
Phil - 3106 | Ethics I (Theoretical Ethics): The Nature and Semination of Ethics |
Phil - 3103 | Buddhist Culture and Myanmar Traditional Thought: Introduction Buddhist Culture and Myanmar Traditional Thought |
Phil - 4106 | P0litical Philosophy (West) |
Phil - 4106 | P0litical Philosophy (East) |

Daw Zu Zu Mya Sein

Daw Lwin Lwin Maw
Department of Philosophy
University of Distance Education, Yangon
47 A Inya Road, Kamaryut Township, Yangon, Myanmar
YUDE Campus, Building (19)
(951) 512865 / (959) 260594884 / 953761509