<p>I'm interested in either major or minoring in philosophy.</p>
<p>What kind of work can I expect?
How much reading and writing papers will I have to do a day/week?</p>
<p>You can expect to flip burgers.</p>
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you don’t need to be a jerk?</p>
<p>I would be double majoring biology and philosophy or major biology double minor philosophy and music.
Or if philosophy doesn’t interest me as much as I thought it would I would substitute it with math minor or a music major.</p>
<p>I’d probably be doing this at Case Western (I know their philosphy department is virtually nonexistent but it’s more of a interest or hobby than anything). I might be minoring if I went to WashU</p>
<p>I would consider double majoring or minoring in something. Philosophy majors do well in human resource- type careers. </p>
<p>I have only one friend that is a philosophy majors and her reading/writing load entirely depends on the class. Last semester she had an ancient philosophy course or something along those lines and she had to read for about 3 hours every night. She has had other courses where she only read one book the whole semester. </p>
<p>I know that’s not extremely helpful, but I hope it helps a little.</p>
<p>My son is double majoring in Philosophy and Microbiology at Pitt (which has a terrific philosophy program). His main interest is philosophy and the micro major is a tag-on. He plans to work in international medicine and infectious disease. </p>
<p>We believe (in our family) that the undergraduate years are not for pre-professional or vocational training. That learning is an end to itself, so I applaud his desire to study philosophy. </p>
<p>I think you can expect interesting classes and seminars, stimulating/thought provoking conversations with other phil. majors, lots of major and smaller papers and reading and reading response papers and an expectation of some independent and original thinking.</p>
<p>That helps. er it doesn’t scare me away. I really love reading philosophy and the way it questions me, probably more than math (which might be too much work to double major). I think if i can I’ll try to minor.</p>