The department has a two-semester senior project, with the first semester focusing on identifying and collecting material while finalizing the project’s research focus. The second semester is then spent writing and revising the thesis. A proposal/prospectus is expected to be produced during the first semester, including a substantial annotated bibliography.
The James F. Sheridan, Jr. Memorial Fund provides support for senior project research materials, for conference travel, and for senior project research materials required by students in Philosophy and in Religious Studies. The fund was established in memory of Jim Sheridan, Allegheny alumnus (Class of 1950) and Professor of Philosophy, by his friends, family, and beloved wife Nancy. To learn more about this opportunity, talk with your Senior Project Advisor.
Students can use this Philosophy Comp Template in Word or in Google doc format for the title page of their project.
Senior Project GuidelinesIt is now a requirement that your completed Senior Project be uploaded to D-Space.
D-Space Instructions and Permission FormsRecent Philosophy Senior Projects
- Balancing the Scales: The Battle for Civil Justice in American Landlord-Tenant Law
- On the Devaluation of the Black Student’s Body Through Racist Communication, Verbal and Nonverbal, at Predominately White Institutions
- Our Neoliberal Being: Implications of Neoliberal Social Ontology for Conceptual Frameworks of Feminism
- Philosophy on the internet
- Nothing About us Without us: A Refugee-centered Epistemology of Citizen Journalism
- Sumak Kawsay: Guiding Principles for a Shift in the Conventional Mindset