Dear FEAST friends, 

 

I’m writing to let you know about our MA program in Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. If you have students interested in pursuing an MA in Philosophy in a pluralistic program with funding opportunities, I hope you will encourage them to apply.  We have rolling admissions, so students can apply at any time to enter the program at the beginning of the upcoming semester.  We have recently received new lines of funding that we can assign to incoming students beginning in Fall 2018.  Students interested in such an opportunity would need to apply to the program by May 1, 2018. 

 

Currently in its fifth year, our young MA program has a lot to recommend it.  Our faculty is pluralistic, giving students opportunities to engage in philosophical study in the Analytic, Continental, non-Western, and Feminist traditions.  Students enroll in one of two tracks: Methodology or Social Justice.  The Methodology Track allows students to explore questions about the nature of philosophy as a mode of inquiry, drawing from diverse philosophical traditions, with courses in Chinese Philosophy, Phenomenology, Comparative Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science.  The Social Justice Track offers courses in Ethical Theory, Food Justice, Environmental Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Moral Psychology, and Feminist Philosophy.  These courses examine a number of contemporary concerns, including the nature of just social structures, relations, and practices; theoretical and practical issues related to gender, race, class, and disability; challenges for individual and collective action; and conceptions of what it could mean to flourish in the midst of climate change and other forms of ecological upheaval.

 

We are able to provide funding, in the form of Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships, to as many as eight graduate students.  These Assistantships offer substantial tuition remissions and modest stipends to continuing and incoming students.  These opportunities are available for Canadian and international students as well as for US students.  The University also offers other funding opportunities for which students may apply.

 

Please find attached to this email a flyer for our program, including some basic information and deadlines, a list of our faculty and their research specializations, and links to our website and how to apply to our program. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Laura McMahon

Graduate Coordinator

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