– Rock Ethics Institute
The Rock Ethics Institute was founded in 2001 through a $5 million gift from Doug and Julie Rock to the Department of Philosophy and the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. The mission of the Rock Ethics Institute is to promote ethical awareness and inquiry across the University, and in the public and professional sectors, through a three-fold emphasis on teaching, research, and outreach.
– Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State’s mission is to provide training that not only meets the highest standards of professional research but also prepares students for civic engagement and intellectual autonomy. To fulfill this mission, our goal is to be recognized as a leading department for the scientific study of language and for the integrative study of literature in the broad context of cultural productions. Achieving this requires ongoing evaluations of our curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate levels to provide a meaningful course of study that adapts to the different individual interests of our students and to reinforce the already strongly cohesive research paradigms that characterize our faculty.
– Department of Philosophy
The Penn State Philosophy Department strives to be a national leader in increasing the diversity and inclusiveness of our discipline, and actively promotes the College’s and University’s diversity mission. The department has also recruited a diverse group of faculty whose areas of expertise include Critical Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, African American Philosophy, and Latin American and Latina/o Philosophy. These efforts, along with thoughtful attention to course offerings and syllabi, have contributed to our undergraduates and graduates experiencing a wide range of diversity in their philosophy classes. Our Department has made diversity and inclusiveness a key priority, one that influences our pedagogical mission at the deepest levels and that yields fundamental benefits to our research and public mission.
– Philosophy Graduate Student Organization
– Latin American Studies Program
Latin American Studies at Penn State is a dynamic community of faculty and students built around degree programs, an annual Talks Series, and other related events. Our program offers three degrees—an undergraduate Major and Minor, and a graduate Minor. The courses for these degrees are drawn from curricula across the College of Liberal Arts and other colleges, helping Latin American Studies to act as a bridge that connects multiple areas of the university
– Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Hypatia is a forum for cutting edge work in feminist philosophy. Since its inception in the mid-1980s, Hypatia has been a catalyst for broadening and refining feminist philosophy as well as an invaluable resource for those who teach in this area. Feminist philosophy arises out of diverse traditions and methods within philosophy and is also richly interdisciplinary in orientation.
– Lippin Lecture Series
Over the past four years, Michael D. Burroughs, associate director of the Rock Ethics Institute, senior lecturer of philosophy, as well as vice president of the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), has organized the Richard B. Lippin Lecture Series for the Rock Ethics Institute. Since joining the Rock, Burroughs has focused the Lippin Lecture Series on topics relating to moral development and ethics education. Burroughs explained that “My interest in facilitating this lecture series is that the Rock is in large part an educational institute. A big part of our mission is education and outreach.
– Penn State Educational Equity
Within the University, the office of Educational Equity supports and evaluates the many diversity and inclusion initiatives and serves as an advocate for a range of populations. These include historically underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities; persons with disabilities; persons from low-income families who would be the first generation to attend college; veterans; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons; and women.
– Center for Global Studies
The Center for Global Studies was founded in August 2010 after Penn State was awarded the highly competitive Title VI National Resource Center grant by the U.S. Department of Education. Our goal is to create a truly cross-disciplinary center for the creative and innovative study of the many complex facets of globalization. We offer the university an impact-oriented vision for facilitating and coordinating faculty and student research, promoting globally-relevant graduate and undergraduate education, and introducing new outreach programs.
– Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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