• To serve students in the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Professional Studies and Education with foundation courses and an applied philosophy minor with internship opportunities
  
  
• To provide all students with courses meeting certain general education requirements
  
  
• To provide a major, minor and advanced courses for those who want to specialize in philosophy
  
  
• To provide graduate courses for the university graduate programs.
  

Consistent with these missions, courses in philosophy are designed to enable students to increase the scope and depth of their understanding of and sensitivity to basic human beliefs and values. We also strive to help students:

• Think creatively and critically about enduring questions of human existence
  
  
• Integrate the various fields of knowledge into a useful, meaningful whole
  
  
• Frame their ideas into a justified system of beliefs that provides order and direction
  in life
  
  
• Develop basic analytical and logical skills
  
  
• Acquaint themselves with the history of philosophy