Overview | Aims & Objectives

Overview

The University of San Carlos Department of Philosophy offers two undergraduate (Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Bachelor of Philosophy) and three graduate programs (Master of Arts in Philosophy, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy).

For more information, please call the Office of the Chair at (+63 32) 253 1000 local 177 or email us at philodept@usc.edu.ph or bromyabulad at yahoo.com

The Department of Philosophy has been established to become an integral part of the College of Arts and Sciences, which is to provide liberal education as foundation for the formation of the professional dedicated to regional and national development and human advancement. As such, The Department is committed to do its part in fulfilling the mission of the University and attaining the goals of the College.

Thus in 1953, the Department first offered the degree of Bachelor of Arts Major in Philosophy (AB Philo). To enhance and improve the course offerings, in 1956 it offered the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph.B). To serve its graduates the Department had to offer graduate degree programs Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA Philo) in 1956 and a post-graduate degree program Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (Ph.D. Philo) in 1960.

Aims & Objectives

The Philosophy Department, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences, aims to:

• To promote and cultivate the habits of free inquiry and critical learning by providing philosophical dimension to the student’s education through its service and major courses and quality researches that would serve the Philippines in general and the Visayas and Mindanao in particular.
• To contribute to the total formation of a morally intelligent and responsible professional and to help in the shaping of a socially aware and responsive citizen, by providing in all its philosophy courses an atmosphere that facilitates the assimilation of knowledge and values relevant to one’s life-situation
• To prepare the students in Philosophy Programs in the practice of their profession by training them in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition as a starting point for a more profound study of other philosophical orientations.
• To promote the total development of its faculty by providing them with opportunities to participate in relevant conferences or seminar-workshops, to pursue graduate and interdisciplinary studies, to undertake researches, and to involve themselves in meaningful community outreach projects.
• To facilitate the continued professional growth of its alumni and the philosophy teachers in Southern Philippines through Conferences and Conventions initiated by PHAVISMINDA (The Philosophical Association of the Visayas and Mindanao—an association it has founded in 1979).
• To encourage its faculty to do researches that would enhance philosophy curriculum development.
• To publish PHAVISMINDA Journal, the official journal of the USC Philosophy Department and the PHAVISMINDA.