History PhD Admissions

juillet
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:24:06 +0000

Have you declared your major yet? If you want to get a PhD in psychology, then you’d major in psychology; if you want a PhD in philosophy you’d major in philosophy. Psychology is my field and you are missing some basic courses: Intro (how did you take social, personality, and cognitive psych without intro?), research methods, statistics being three of them. Philosophy I don’t know as well, but you only have one course so I’m betting there are basics you are missing.

But before you even get to that point, the real question is: what do you want to do? A graduate degree is a means to an end: you get one because it helps you towards a certain career. Why do you want a PhD in psychology or philosophy or maybe history? Do you want to be a professor?

Getting involved in research with one of those professors is a good step towards a PhD program, but before you do that you should think about which discipline you’d like to pursue. Psychology and philosophy are very different fields with completely different approaches towards research.