Program Overview

Philosophy Program

The Philosophy program is offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Memorial University.

Undergraduate Programs

• Major in Philosophy
• Minor in Philosophy
• Honours in Philosophy
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Scholarships and Awards
• Philosophy at Grenfell
• Upcoming Undergraduate Seminars (4000 level)

Graduate Programs

M.A. Program

• Applying to the MA Program
• Financial Support
• MA Coursework
• Ph.D. Placements
• School of Graduate Studies Forms and Guidelines

M.Phil. in Humanities

• Student Experience
• Program Pathway
• Who Can Apply?
• Contact

The M.Phil. in Humanities is a two-year Master's program that provides students with new expressive skills and exposes them to new ways of thinking from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. The program is bookended by an entrance course and an exit course, with the entrance course helping to develop reading, writing, and argumentative skills.

The backbone of the Humanities Program consists of four curated interdisciplinary seminars, each situated in a key area indispensable to humanistic thinking and research:

• History and Memory
• Literature, Art and Language
• Philosophy and Critical Theory
• Science, Technology and Nature

For each course, program participants collectively decide on a topic or theme related to the key area. Past themes have included Utopia, Making Meaning, Truth and Lie, Migration, and the Anthropocene. Each curated course becomes an exceptional interdisciplinary experience, with a scholar from across the Humanities and Social Sciences joining the seminar to discuss a specific issue related to the course theme.

Ph.D. Program

• Admissions
• Funding
• Timeline
• Doctoral Coursework
• Second Language Requirement
• Comprehensive Examination
• Current Doctoral Students

Research

• Research Clusters
• Recent Faculty Publications
• Faculty Bookshelf
• Journals
• Graduate Research

Student Experience

The Interdisciplinary Humanities (M.Phil.) Program culminates in a capstone research project, where students develop a research topic and link theoretical and practical knowledge by recognizing and articulating a problem from multiple disciplinary vantage points. The project may take the form of a traditional written analysis or incorporate an alternative mode of academic expression.

Courses

• Graduate Student Handbook
• Courses
• Upcoming Graduate Courses