Major/Minor Information Session

亲爱的同学们,

This document should help you navigate the material we have online about the philosophy major 和 the courses we will be offering for fall '22 和 spring '23 as well as give you a general sense about why you might wish to consider majoring in philosophy.  

哲学 is the study of fundamental questions about what we can know 和 how we should live. The American Philosophical Association has put together resources for undergraduates 在这里. Studying philosophy teaches people how to think critically 和 carefully; philosophy majors typically do very well on tests like the GRE考试 和 考试, lots of notable people have majored in philosophy.  

你会发现 list of courses the department will be offering 在我们的网站上. Please scroll down that page to arrive at the listings. As you can see, we have an exciting range of courses on tap! 在一般情况下, if you are completely new to philosophy, we suggest starting with courses at the 100-level. These courses presuppose no background in philosophy 和 are intended to be introductions to the discipline. 除了, many of our 200-level courses do not have prerequisites, but please check the details of each course in 仿生. 300-level courses do presuppose some background in philosophy 和 are not suitable for beginners.  

As you can see from the link to our courses, 布林莫尔的 political science department offers several cross-listed theory courses which can also function as electives that contribute to the philosophy major. 学生 majoring in philosophy at Bryn Mawr can count courses offered by Haverford’s philosophy department as electives that contribute to the major at Bryn Mawr. 除了, t在这里 are often cross-listed courses offered through Haverford’s religion department 和 its Peace, 正义, Human Rights program.  

布林莫尔的 philosophy major 和 minor requirements can be found 在我们的网站上. The required classes for the major are clearly listed on that page, while we recommend that majors begin by taking the two required 100-level introductory classes (PHIL B101 和 PHIL B102), students are not obliged to take the required courses in any specific order, except for the year-long Senior Conference which must be completed in students’ senior year (if you plan on graduating early, you must take this course in your junior year).  

The philosophy minor requires six courses 和 does not have distribution requirements. A minor declaration form is now available on the web. 

Sophia Vaidya '23 和 Darpan Chahal '24 are the department’s major representatives.   

Thimo Heisenberg is the department’s major advisor for the 2022/23 academic year.  

献上最美好的祝愿! 

Adrienne Prettyman
Associate Professor of 哲学 
系主任