Apart from personal enrichment, how can a student expect to benefit from coursework in Philosophy at North Carolina Wesleyan College?
Corporate managers consistently state that, when hiring college graduates, they are seeking intellectual breadth, reasoning ability, and moral maturity. Thus they prefer students with degrees in humanities subjects over those with a narrow specialty.
Recent studies suggest that by the fourth or fifth year out of school, persons with solid grounding in the humanities are higher in earning power than those who stick to a more technical curriculum. In today's rapidly changing world, specific technical information becomes obsolete in a few years. Then too, surveys show that most people change careers more than once. Merely technical studies do not yield as much adaptability to changing conditions as do broader subjects that promote the understanding of human nature and human experience.
Study of Philosophy and Religious Studies provides cultural background information, critical reasoning ability, and the opportunity for moral reflection. Thus it promotes the ability to adapt, learn new skills, and apply old lessons to new situations.
For these reasons coursework in Philosophy is a good foundation for any career track.