It can broaden your intellectual horizons and enhance your capacity for self-expression. The department of philosophy and religious studies has a high caliber of faculty including professors who graduated from Cambridge University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt, Duquesne, Northwestern and the University of California-Berkeley. The department has a very active Philosophy Club, a student organization that meets every other week, which sponsors a number of talks and presentations by students and faculty. Introductory-level and advanced students have the opportunity to publish articles in the department's journal, Prism. Unlike many other public universities, classes are not taught by teaching assistants.
Students work alongside interesting professors who inspire learning.
While in high school, students are encouraged to successfully complete courses in English composition, public speaking, social sciences, history, mathematics, foreign languages and psychology.