College of Liberal Arts
Students pursuing this degree combine logic and ethics to solve quandaries that arise in law, science, engineering and society. Graduates will be equipped with historical context of philosophy’s greatest questions, an understanding of new philosophical questions and a unique point of view that prepares them for advanced degrees in philosophy, law, medicine and science.
Edgar M. Llamas believes philosophy helps people to question and clarify their lives, and to think for themselves. The El Paso native said this program, with its conceptually open faculty, taught him to conduct independent research, which helped get him admitted to the philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon. His professional goal is to become a tenured philosophy professor.
Our graduates often work in government or nonprofit organizations. Others enter Ph.D. programs or pre-professional degree programs in areas such as law and medicine. Many graduates enter positions in secondary or higher education.