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“Traveling accelerates the progress of nature, and completes the man for good or evil. When someone returns from traveling about the world, he is what he will be all his life. In the course of their travels, ill-raised and ill-behaved young people adopt all the vices of the nations among whom they have lived, and none of the virtues with which those vices are combined; but those whose good nature has been well cultivated, who travel with a real desire to learn, return better and wiser than they went.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off-Campus Studies can help Philosophy students…
- Improve foreign language skills
- Take specialized philosophy courses and graduate-level courses that are not available at Whitman
- Gain awareness of the major discipline from a different scholarly tradition
- Develop a global perspective
- Expand cross-cultural communication and problem-solving skills
- Prepare for an increasingly diverse and international workplace
How does a semester or year of OCS help students in Philosophy prepare for graduate school or various career opportunities?
- Improving language ability and/or exposure to different ways of doing philosophy
- Exposing students to specialized philosophy courses and/or graduate level courses
- Developing connections with faculty elsewhere with an eye toward graduate school admission
- Helping students successfully compete for teaching and research Fulbright awards, DAAD Fellowships, and other post-graduate awards