The major prepares students for graduate study and also provides valuable training for professional careers such as medicine and law. The Master of Arts Program is designed for students who are interested in advanced work in philosophy, whether or not they have concentrated in the subject as an undergraduate.
Classes are small, and faculty work in close contact with individual students.
The Department sponsors regular philosophy colloquia featuring its own faculty as well as lectures by visiting philosophers. The Department is also home to the Editorial Offices of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The American Association of Philosophy Teachers . The monographic collection contains a broad range of mostly English language works, but also many foreign titles. These materials include both introductory texts to support general survey courses and graduate level secondary works, as well as, original primary materials. The library's reference collection includes philosophy dictionaries and encyclopedias and several bibliographies.