Arts (Philosophy), Bachelor

Our flexible Bachelor of Arts degree offers a wide range of over 50 majors and minors across humanities, social sciences, business, health, and science, enabling you to explore diverse interests while keeping career options broad. This interdisciplinary program allows you to pursue your passions alongside professional preparation.Select a primary arts major and complement it with secondary majors, minors, and electives from various fields, such as combining sociology and psychology with a Chinese elective, or pairing economics with English, or crime, justice, and legal studies with linguistics. Your primary major will appear on your academic transcript, showcasing your expertise to employers, and you'll receive support from world-class academics to shape your future.

In the Philosophy major you will explore fundamental human questions that can help us explore ourselves and our world. If you have ever puzzled over why some actions or scenarios seem right and others seem wrong, or if you would like to explore what makes a belief in gravity more sensible than a belief in Santa Claus, then our Philosophy major is for you. Big and complex questions often have more than one answer, and you will be trained to think rationally, creatively, and fairly. This makes the skills acquired in a Philosophy major broadly applicable, and these are human-skills that are not able to be replaced by machines.

In the Philosophy major you can explore topics such as what human freedom is, whether and how we can know our world (including knowledge of god), how we might resolve disagreement about what should be done, and what it might mean to lead a good life in our changing world.