Finally, it is possible to fail the comprehensive exam, yet pass Senior Seminar, and vice versa. Passing both is required for graduating with a major in Philosophy. A student who does poorly on the written exam will be required to retake part or all of it. The oral exam is a series of departmental colloquia. The department requires each graduating senior to deliver and defend a paper before the philosophy faculty and majors.
Attendance is assumed restricted to the philosophy department.
These papers normally will be given the semester of graduation, in conjunction with the senior seminar and beginning around mid-term. They are usually held on consecutive weeks in late afternoon. Attendance of all senior majors is required at each one. A polished draft of your colloquium paper is to be submitted during the first weeks of Senior Seminar to whomever is teaching it. This paper may be a new paper but need not be.