philosophy minor
November 9, 2023
Letters to the editor: Philosophy minor debate
Dear editor, I appreciated the coverage of the philosophy minor in The Record last week and would like to offer some of my thoughts. During the fall of my first year, I took the course Philosophy, Wonder and Existence with Professor Woodington, an adjunct who is no longer at GC. Now, in my fifth year, 160 credit hours later, I still remember it as being one of my favorite and most formative classes. The topics we covered were completely unrelated to my film and communication studies, but I was fully engaged by the content. We tried to understand the fundamental...
November 2, 2023
Faculty debate dropping philosophy minor
If you go to the Goshen College webpage for the philosophy minor and click on the “faculty & staff” associated with it, the website displays: “Sorry, unable to find any faculty with the specified category/tag.” The GC course catalog lists five classes in the department, but none were offered this year or last year. According to David Housman, the faculty chair this year, the Bible and religion faculty proposed dropping the minor, which was discussed at a faculty meeting on Oct. 19. The discussion was ultimately tabled until the next meeting on Nov. 16. David Housman, faculty chair for this...