Student Activities


The department is proud to offer interested students a number of unique and exciting opportunities to extend their education beyond the classroom.  The exact activities vary from year to year - for example, a group of students in a class may propose attending an undergraduate conference to present their papers, as happened in 2004 when students from the Asian Philosophy seminar traveled to the Southeastern Asian Studies conference.  The list, however, always includes:

The National Ethics Bowl:  Held each year in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), the National Ethics Bowl is inspired by TV's College Bowl.  In the Ethics Bowl, up to 40 teams from schools across the nation prepare for debate on a set of 13 ethical case studies.  The cases present ethical dilemmas in a variety of areas, the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), to  personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), and social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.)  The cases for each round are randomly selected and then a moderator poses a specific question for the team to answer about that case.   A panel of expert judges evaluates the answers for clarity and intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant factors, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.  Funding for travel and expenses is provided by the Department of Philosophy & Religion and the Rutland Institute for Ethics. Clemson's team has done well in recent years, making it to the semifinals in 2004 and placing third nationally in 2005. For more information, contact the coach, Charlie Starkey

If you would like to propose an activity or need information about anything not discussed here, please contact the Undergraduate Coordinator, Kelly Smith.

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Student Organizations

If you are interested in student organizations, please contact Kelly Smith and he will add your name to the email list of the relevant group.  Clemson has an extremely active body of undergraduates interested in extracurricular Philosophy and Religion activities.  In fact, interest has grown so rapidly that the department now has an undergraduate coordinator, Kelly Smith, whose job it is to oversee and facilitate all student activities.  What's really important about this fact is that the department has allocated a small budget which can be used to facilitate said undergraduate activities.  At the moment, this includes:  

1) Free pizza and cokes at the monthly meetings of all three of our student organization (The Philosophical Society of Clemson,  the Clemson Bioethics Club and the Religious Studies Club)

2) Occasional distributions of free club T-shirts and paraphernalia

3) Coordinating occasional trips by students to undergraduate conferences, such as the National Undergraduate Bioethics conference discussed above.

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Philosophy & Religion Alumni

NOTE:  This is a new effort for us and we would really like to keep track of all our alumni.  Please send an email to Kelly Smith if you would like to update your information.

GRADUATION DATE NAME MAJOR(S) WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
May, 2005 Matt Lubniewski Philosophy: Law, Liberty & Justice; Production Studies in Performing Arts Persuing J.D. at the Univ. of Pittsburgh
Dec., 2004 Ambrea Watts Philosophy Persuing J.D. at Duke Univ.
August, 2004  Alexander Hooper Philosophy: Religious Studies  
May, 2004 Jonathan Hiller Philosophy: Law, Liberty & Justice Charleston School of Law
"   " Allen Parker Philosophy/Physics Preparing for Philosophy grad school  in 2005-06
"   " Vanessa Peng Philosophy: Law, Liberty & Justice Law School
"   " John C. (Chess) Wallace Philosophy: Law, Liberty & Justice  
"   " Kevin (Tuck) Tucker

Philosophy

Pursuing Political Science degree at Clemson
August, 2003 Daniel Fisher

Philosophy

 
"   " Michael C. Coffman Philosophy  
May, 2003 Bryan Buckley Philosophy/Economics  
"   " Pavol Kamas Philosophy  
"   " Thomas C. Smalls II Philosophy  
"   " Peter R. Stone Philosophy/English FSU Film School
"   " Danielle Trexler Philosophy: Religious Studies/History Duke University Divinity School
Dec., 2002 James Bennington

Philosophy

 
August, 2002 Ashlea Smith Philosophy Received M.A. Human Resources / Persuing R.N. degree from Greenville Tech
May, 2002 Karen Killian Philosophy  
"   " Tiffany Lambert

Philosophy

 
Dec., 2001 Phillip (Chip) Goff Philosophy/History Pursuing masters in History at Clemson
May, 2001 David Bradley Jones

Philosophy

Administrative assistant, Rutland Institute for Ethics
"   " Suzanne Kirayoglu  Philosophy/Financial Management  
Dec., 2000 Christopher Lempesis

Philosophy

 
"   " Jeff Murto Philosophy: Religious Studies Nursing school, MUSC
Summer, 2000 Rick D. Garner

Philosophy/Political science

 
May, 2000 Grayson L. Cash

Philosophy

Pilot/flight instructor, Delta Airlines
"   " Erin Putnam

Philosophy/English

 
"   "  Andrew Woolum 

Philosophy/PRTM

Park Management / Persuing Ph.D. in Natural Area Recreation at Univ. of Florida

Dec., 1999

Matthew Holden Warren

Philosophy

 

Summer, 1999 

Nathan Masters

Philosophy

 

Dec., 1997

Thomas Dale Adams Philosophy  

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Robert C. Campbell

Philosophy/English

 

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Lewis Gordon Porter IV Philosophy/Psychology  

Summer, 1997

Hal Beverly

Philosophy  

May, 1997

Tressa Denise Lewis Philosophy/Political Science   
Dec., 1996 Jennifer L. Campbell Philosophy/Psychology  

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Stephen Wukela Philosophy/Political Science  

May, 1996

Brandon Culbertson

Philosophy

 
Dec., 1995 Timothy Gumkowski Philosophy  
Summer, 1995 Barbara Reth Philosophy   

May, 1994

John C. (Chris) Campbell 

Philosophy/Psychology

 

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Amanda Cheek

Philosophy/Psychology

 

Dec., 1993

Cecilia Herles  

Philosophy/English

Ph.D., Philosophy, UGA (2006)

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Brian Kassa

Philosophy

 

May, 1993

Sean Patrick Doyle

Philosophy

 

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 Jamey B. Johnson

 Philosophy/political science

 

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 Michelle Little

 Philosophy/Political Science

 

Dec., 1992

 Bruce Baker 

 Philosophy/English

Pursuing Ph.D. in American History at UNC

May, 1992

Clarence D. (Jimmy) Agan III

Philosophy

Dr. Agan is senior minister at Clemson Presbyterian Church

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Charles Edward Ramsey

Philosophy

 
May, 1991   Brian Keith Sanders Philosophy/History/English  

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