There are no specific subject requirements for admission. Doing philosophy means thinking about the most fundamental questions of human existence.
Full weight is given to the medieval period.
Full weight is given also to contemporary movements such as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. In most European countries, this would seem a strange question. The French, Germans, and Italians take it for granted that a secondary education should include some philosophy, both because it is a central part of Europe s intellectual heritage and because it deals with important problems that every educated person should tackle. You also learn something of the potency, even the explosiveness, of ideas. Almost every movement of significance in Europe s history, from Christianity to Marxism, from the Holy Roman Empire to the French Revolution, has been accompanied by profound shifts in philosophical perspectives.