PH 490 - Senior Seminar

The senior seminar serves as a student’s required capstone experience in the major. Each seminar will contain the following elements, though not necessarily limited to these: a) A general guiding theme or topic, one broad enough to relate to other areas of the Humanities; b) Students develop their own thesis within the philosophical topic or theme; c) Students periodically present their on-going thesis project to the other members of the seminar for careful analysis and discussion; d) The outcome of the seminar is a substantial, completed philosophical research paper; e) The student may choose to submit his/her research paper to the department for consideration of honors.

Prerequisites: Seniors completing their philosophy major; and, if seats are available, open to other seniors with permission of the instructor

Full course
Misc. Notes: Fulfills Written Communication requirement for the Philosophy major.