This program emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one's views, carrying on respectful dialogue with others, and helps satisfy the human need for understanding, constructive use of intelligence and imagination.
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Philosophy promotes clear, systematic thinking that can benefit any profession. 在伦理上, it emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one's views and of carrying on respectful dialogue with others. 最重要的是, it helps satisfy the human need for understanding and the constructive use of intelligence and imagination.
Our philosophy program is excellent preparation for a career in business, 教育, 法律, 公共服务, 管理, 和医学, 或者读研究生. You gain extensive training in logic, 批判性分析, 创造性地解决问题, while having the flexibility to customize independent study courses based on your own interests and career goals.
The philosophy program also offers a Concentration in Philosophy and Social Justice. This dynamic and interdisciplinary program allows you to count courses from the Africana Studies, 环境研究, and Gender and Sexuality Studies minors toward a philosophy degree. The curriculum synthesizes applied and theoretical frameworks for social justice. You will learn about the causes of inequality and injustice, as well as how to apply moral and political philosophy to these 问题.
Take a look at some of the course requirements.
It is recommended that majors take one or more years of a foreign language. Greek, Latin, French, German, and Spanish are strongly encouraged. Also accepted are Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, or Arabic. Writing assignments in upper-level philosophy courses will involve a minimum of 3,000 words of college-standard English.
For more information, and to see a complete list of additional degree requirements, visit the 课程目录.
You take a minimum of 9 credits in a social justice area program (Africana Studies, 环境研究, and Gender and Sexuality Studies) and can count up to 15 credits from these courses toward the philosophy degree. This program is structured such that the philosophy curriculum draws on and supplements the empirical work completed in the three social justice area classes. If you are pursuing a minor in any of three social justice area programs, this concentration is a good option.
课程的例子包括:
非洲象的研究:
The Study of the Black Experience
The Black Family in American Society
环境研究:
心灵与自然
生活在环境中
性别与性研究:
Women’s and LGBTQ+ Social Movements
《爱与性的哲学
For more information, and to see a complete list of additional degree requirements, visit the 课程目录.
You must earn 18 credits of philosophy, 还有两门历史课程, and three additional philosophy electives. 课程例子包括:
For more information, and to see a complete list of minor requirements, visit the 课程目录.
文学学士 in Philosophy students will:
Philosophy, Politics and Government , '24
My interest in social justice and ethics is highlighted in my philosophy major, and my politics and government major will give me the tools to apply these interests in 法律 and policy reform. The elements of critical thinking and social awareness coupled with an understanding of 法律 and politics will help me to become a civil rights attorney that is able to best serve people who look like me.
You'll study American industry and the development of American labor, world wars and America’s growing influence on world affairs, 移民的影响, the birth and explosive growth of mass culture, and the struggles to extend American democracy to excluded groups.