Philosophy and Religion
Welcome to the Department of Philosophy & Religion at UCA.
The Department of Philosophy and Religion at UCA offers a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies. Owing to the close intellectual connections between the two programs, many students who begin their undergraduate work in one program decide to major or minor in the other.
The department faculty is both large and diverse in its interests, ranging from the classical areas of study to issues in artificial intelligence, postmodernism, feminism, as well Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and Judaic philosophical and religious thought. Students repeatedly report that what they like most about the program is the accessibility of the faculty and fellow students for advising, discussion and debate. The department hosts a philosophy and religion film and lecture series, an active list-serve for the discussion of various philosophical, religious and social-political issues and the philosophy program maintains a chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the national honors society for undergraduates in philosophy.
Many of our graduates enter law school and many have been accepted at top graduate schools around the nation and beyond. Almost all report back that their studies in philosophy and/or religion offered a high-point and a transformatory experience in their academic careers and that their studies proved invaluable for their later academic and professional pursuits.
So check out our website for further information about the program and faculty. And come join us in asking the big questions of life and becoming familiar with the most magnificent attempts to answer those questions that human beings have yet to offer!
Please contact me by email phone or a visit if you have further questions about the program.
Dr. Charles W. Harvey, Chair
224a Harrin Hall
Department of Philosophy & Religion
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
(501) 450-5591
Philosophy & Religion Department Newsletter, 2008
Philosophy & Religion Department Newsletter, 2009