Philosophy bachelor’s degree program highlights

Apply the knowledge and skills you learn while earning your bachelor’s in philosophy degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage. These experiences will help you think critically and create place-based solutions for safe, just, sustainable and healthy communities across Alaska and the world.

• Engage in public discourse and community activities. As a philosophy major, you can join faculty members who lead public discussions that address significant issues and conflicts in Alaska and beyond.
• Conduct impactful, community-based research. Work independently or join faculty research projects. The UAA philosophy department is making significant discoveries and achievements in food and environmental ethics, legal ethics, reasoned public debate, local professional ethics and disaster ethics.
• Learn from and conduct research with highly accomplished faculty. Program faculty, including a new faculty in residence, are internationally and nationally recognized for their grant awards and publications. Their specialties include student-centered teaching in a range of topics, such as professional ethics, philosophy of law, environmental and food ethics, the ethical treatment of animals, biomedical ethics, disaster ethics and public deliberation.
• Attend talks, panel discussions and special events. You’ll be invited to participate in discussions on current dilemmas and controversies in a variety of topics such as theology, emotions and ethics. For example, attend the Bioethics Lecture Series, which brings together medical professionals from hospitals across Anchorage to discuss pressing issues in health care.