Philosophy calls on both your creativity and your rigor. All of your interests from art and literature, history and social science, to mathematics and natural science can be framed and dissected from a philosophical standpoint. Through studying philosophy, you will cultivate the necessary skills for articulate oral and written communication, clear thinking and reasoning, and drawing connections among ideas of all kinds. These skills are important because you have decisions to make, evidence to weigh, opinions to assess, mysteries to contemplate, a world to understand, and a life to live. Philosophy allows you to explore these possibilities and more, by broadening your world perspective and developing a critical lens.