哲学与跨学科研究系为UA Little Rock的学生提供了出色的综合教育。我们鼓励学生通过创建丰富的指导环境和具有挑战性的，有益的课程，将教育作为终生学习过程并最终达到目的。我们强调所有学生都必须学习批判性思维技能，阅读能力，写作能力以及认识到反思自己的思想和价值观的重要性。我们鼓励学生在这种情况下，有机会运用面向历史的学习方法和基于案例的学习方法，并不断讨论现实世界的影响，来运用这些宝贵的技能。该部门大力支持课程和教育的多样性，旨在将这一承​​诺扩展到课堂以外的活动，支持学生在整个校园中的参与，并明确
The Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies provides excellent integrated education to students at UA Little Rock. We encourage students to approach education as a life-long learning process and as an end in itself by creating a rich mentoring environment and challenging, rewarding curricula. We emphasize the necessity for all our students to learn critical thinking skills, to read well, to write well, and to recognize the importance of reflecting on their ideas and values. We foster situations in which students have opportunities to apply these invaluable skills with both historically-oriented and case-based learning techniques and with continual discussion of real-world implications. The department strongly supports diversity in curriculum and education and aims to extend that commitment to activities outside the classroom, supporting student engagement across campus and explicitly recognizing our roles as student educational advocates.In Plato's Republic, Socrates tells a story about the navigator on a ship who is thrown overboard by the sailors who see him as a useless stargazer: what is useful depends on whether you are focused on the task of steering the ship or the need to guide it. Imagine a race in which speed is the highest value among the runners, all of whom have forgotten where the finish line is and why they want to get there.A university education is not job training. The chance to learn to think well and investigate the most important and interesting questions in life is itself a reward, not merely a means by which to do something. Still, it is no small thing to worry about how you are going to make a living, it is just a question that has a lot less to do with your major than you may think. Philosophy is one of the most common majors of the wealthiest people in America, it is also a common major among those who have low paying jobs. Philosophy offers training in crucial, widely applicable skills - such as problem solving - but how these skills are used is up to the individual.