Master of Arts in Philosophy

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the history and current state of the discipline of philosophy.
• Demonstrate a sophisticated grasp of representative philosophical issues and ways of dealing with them.
• Demonstrate a mature capacity to apply philosophical methods to intellectual problems and to engage in philosophical discussions meeting the standards of the discipline.
• Apply advanced analytic skills.
• Apply advanced interpretive skills.
• Demonstrate mastery of the imaginative development of abstract formulations and their concrete applications.
• Develop the philosophical skills and knowledge necessary to do graduate work at the Ph.D. level.
• Develop the philosophical skills and knowledge necessary to teach philosophy at the community college (lower-division) level.
• Demonstrate the capacity to study philosophy beyond the undergraduate level for the purposes of self-enrichment or to acquire additional expertise related to their professions.