<p>What's the coursework like? Are you going to Law School/Grad School, or just taking Phil for the hell of it?</p>
<p>It’s funny how the history major topic has two pages and this has 0 replies. I’m thinking about majoring in philosophy, so I’ll bump this in the hope that a current major will share his experiences!</p>
<p>I’m thinking about majoring or minoring philosophy too. If I major in it, I pretty much feel like I have to go to law school, because there isn’t too much you can do with a philosophy major alone(At least how I assume that employers may see it.). Right?</p>
<p>Your major doesn’t matter all that much unless it’s for something specific like nursing or engineering. What matters a lot more is your work experience, skills, internships, etc.</p>
<p>I would assume…</p>
<p>…deep</p>
<p>I like how your question is also like a philosophical question.</p>
<p>^^Lol. Thanks for the responses guys, but hopefully a Phil major actually responds soon since I wanna major in it. Maybe. I’m considering going to law school. Are you guys too? If not, I’ll minor in Phil, & major in PoliSci</p>
<p>I’m graduating as a Philosophy major with Honors. I am going to law school. I could also just as easily have landed a job at a major corporation. Philosophy will have no handicap as compared to any other humanities majors, and if you take quant courses (particularly stats) it’s no worse/potentially better than a social science. </p>
<p>As stated above, your major matters almost not at all.</p>
<p>What’s the coursework like?? What kind of skills did you acquire?</p>
<p>Easy while you’re in college, much harder when you’re trying to find a job.</p>
<p>Greeaat. ^^are you a Phil major?</p>
<p>No, I was just joking. I’m going to be an engineering major next year. Was just giving you a hard time. :p</p>
<p>well I’m happy you take my thread seriously lol… Engineering major? You must like math.</p>
<p>The coursework is critical reading of shorter but more difficult passages and lots of writing geared toward rigor in argumentation and concision and clarity.</p>
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<p>I’m going to go out on a limb and say you don’t learn any “skills” per se simply because philosophy, as such, isn’t exactly a skills-driven major like, I don’t know, engineering, statistics, business, economics (actually, not really that even), etc. At best you’ll learn critical reading/thinking, which is a good thing to have but not something that will make you even remotely competitive in a field of people that have that PLUS some specialized skill. I honestly think philosophy, like most of the liberal arts/fine arts/natural sciences such as pure biology, is becoming obsolete in a world driven by technology, progress and numbers. </p>
<p>Basically, if you’re not dead set on going to law school or being a starving artist or something, don’t even think about it. My cousin, a philosophy major who took 5 years to graduate, has been working as a hotel maintenance man for the last year and a half.</p>
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<p>Did you learn about anecdotal evidence in a skills driven major?</p>
<p>Sorry, where did I cite what I said as evidence? I was just sharing a relevant story on the topic and inviting you to draw the inference that, with a more “in-demand” major, my cousin probably wouldn’t have been in this position. I realize that’s not always the case and some philosophy majors do very well (but your typical Joe or Suzy Epistemologist won’t get very far after undergrad w/o law school or some impressive work/internship experience).</p>
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<p>Ok, you’re right. You didn’t.</p>
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<p>Oh whoops, you just did.</p>
<p>So … just curious… do you have anything to contribute to the thread or to say about what I actually wrote?</p>
<p>a world driven by “technology, progress, and numbers” dude where the **** do you come up with this **** and furthermore what in GOD’S NAME causes you to actually put it on the internet for the world to see I mean are you a total cretin?</p>