Unraveling the Threads of Thought
You’ll shine a philosophical light on everyday issues and concerns in popular culture, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, gay marriage, humanitarian aid, and evolution vs. intelligent design. Courses addressing everyday life and culturally based issues will give you a much deeper and more sophisticated understanding than you had previously.
You’ll read fundamental philosophy (Plato’s Republic, Descartes’ Meditations, Searle’s Mind, Language, and Society, among others) that puts you in touch with the excitement and intrigue of the discipline as few secondary texts can do. You’ll find you’re capable of understanding difficult, complex and profound material – more than that, you’ll discover that how much you gain from the effort of reading such material makes it all worthwhile.
Outcomes
Post-graduate careers include:
- English
- Educational psychology
- Law
- Social psychology
- Institutional research
- Publishing
- Neurosciences lab technician
Coursework
Because the concerns of philosophy cut across all other disciplines, its primary value lies in how it contributes to integration within liberal education. Courses in this minor will give you broad exposure to philosophy and a more focused approach related to mathematics, social sciences, natural sciences or the humanities.
Requirements for a minor in Philosophy: 15 hours
