PHIL - Minor in Philosophy

Set your sharpened mind to a goal and go far with a Philosophy minor.

Philosophy is critical thinking, which is elemental in business, governance, law, environmental sciences, non-profit work, design, art-making, and health sciences.

Studying philosophy helps to develop analytical and evaluative thinking, speaking, and writing skills, so that you can tackle problems by breaking them into their composite parts and make new or refined connections between these elements and compare benefits and burdens of various solutions, as well as to understand the criteria by which you or others make sound judgments. Further, philosophy helps students to envision a world they would like to be part of and persuade others in efforts to accomplish this world. The type of philosophy called ethics—which studies what is right or wrong—also directly applies to your professional life, regardless of what profession you seek.