PHIL 475: Philosophy Capstone

Course Description

In this course, with the aid of a Capstone advisor assigned by Philosophy, you will develop important research skills by revising and expanding a paper that you have already written for a previous philosophy course. The skills to be developed include the ability to search philosophy databases for journal articles related to your topic; to select the most relevant of those articles based on their abstracts; to expand previously written work using the selected material; and finally to revise, edit, and polish y our philosophical writing. The end result will be a 10-15 page research paper of a quality sufficient to provide a basis of a writing sample for graduate school applications. Prerequisites: 27 credits in Philosophy or instructor consent.