We require, for a major, eleven courses (thirty-three hours): six of these are prescribed courses, the other five are the student's choice. For an overview of the combination as it appears on the "contract" we gradually work out with each student, see our contract sheet. The six prescribed courses include three interdisciplinary core courses, which are team-taught with one or both of the other Humanities departments. The last of these is our capstone course, where we try to pull together the skills and insights developed in our program. The other three prescribed courses are an introductory Philosophy course, Classics course, and Religious Studies course. There is more detailed information on the Humanities page.

We also offer a minor in Philosophy. This requires fifteen hours, and does not include the team-taught courses. 

*Philosophers left to right: Aristotle, Alain Locke, John Locke, Julia Kristeva, Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Thoreau