<p>Hi there,
I'm a student in Michigan at a local community college, and soon shall transfer to Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI to major in philosophy. Ultimately, I'd like to become a philosophy professor.</p>
<p>I have some questions though.</p>
<p>I would like to minor in something so that I'm not taking extra general education classes. I have the list at:
Cinema Studies
Communication
Creative Writing
Economics
Linguistics
Political Science
Psychology
Religious Studies
Sociology
Urban Studies
What of these would be most plausible?</p>
<p>Also, I would like to go to a decent graduate school. What would be some that I could get into with a cumulative GPA of 3.55 (I don't expect it to go down)?</p>
<p>What jobs could I work in with a BA in philosophy while attending graduate school?</p>
<p>Yes, I would like fries with that</p>
<p>Thanks for the witty response, but I get it everyday.</p>
<p>Ignore the idiot in the thread socratic, worse case scenario you would end up being a teacher in high school and in my area, they start out at 41k. You could do that or any administrative job at the university but those are low paying like about 22-30k, or you could find a job at a company or non profit that is general as well and those pay about the same.</p>
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That really depends on what you’re interested in. Once you attend graduate school, your BA won’t matter much - let alone your undergraduate minor. Economics would provide you with the closest intellectual stimulation as Philosophy, IMO, but don’t let your minor hurt your GPA if you intend to go to grad school. Choose the one that is easiest, which is often the one a student is most interested. Creative writing I sense would just burn you out in the whole writing department (though, it appears you are at that state already), and psychology might be worth looking into.</p>
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No idea. What does your independent online reasearch suggest? Are there any specific schools you’re interested in?</p>
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Almost anything that involves great writing skills and critical/logical thinking. And I suppose it would need to offer part-time or flexible schedules if you don’t plan on working full-time and attending a grad program.</p>
<p>My wife received a BA is Philosophy. As an undergrad she worked as a museum curator’s assistant (one of the coolest jobs ever becuase she got to handle a lot of famous art by hand - with gloves of course), and she went on to work as an assistant in a U.S. House Representative’s home-state office and a state benefits program evaluator. Her passion had always been law though, so she ended up completing an ABA accredited Paralegal program and has been working as a paralegal in industries such as immigration, business, and civil litigation for over a year now. She will retake the LSAT this year to apply to LS. As you may gather the possibilities are abundant, despite what others might think. Philosophy teaches the critical thinking skills that almost every employer expects graduates to have, plus they actually know how to write.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses endoftime and turtlerock,
I’m pushing towards political science or urban studies so that I can work within a government position while obtaining an MA. I really think I would like to go to a better known school like University of Washington, Berkeley, Gonzaga, or something along those lines on the opposite coast.</p>
<p>Obviously, DreBurden doesn’t understand the intellectual fervor of philosophers. Keep up the inquiry; life will take you far.</p>
<p>I talked to my philosophy professor about studying other subjects along with philosophy, and he said it really depends on what field of philosophy you want to go into. If you want to work in Philosophy of science, some science major would be nice. If Philosophy of religion, religious studies courses would be a plus. Also, a 3.55 GPA is probably a little on the lower side if you want to go to a top philosophy school, but it’s good enough for some of the less prestigious but still well respectable schools (for example, at Loyola University Chicago, the average undergrad GPA of philosophy grad students is a 3.6)</p>