St. Mary's College of Maryland

Program  Information

John Schroeder, Chair
Professor of Philosophy
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jwschroeder@smcm.edu

Sharon Newcomb, Office Assistant I
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Program Highlight

The department offers a major and minor in Philosophy and a major and minor in Religious Studies. As an active and energetic department, we are committed towards an intercultural, international and interdisciplinary understanding of the world. We teach across the traditional fields of philosophy and religious studies, and beyond the cultural divides of East and West. Departmental faculty likes to teach in a variety of venues (Nitze Program; Women, Gender and Sexuality; Environmental Studies; Asian Studies; African and African Diaspora Studies), to take students on study tours (Greece, Germany/Poland, India, Thailand, and, in the future, England and Israel), and to bring questions of global relevance to the campus communities through scheduling events with renowned speakers and activists.

John Schroeder
Associate Professor

Photo of John Schroeder

Departments: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Anne Arundel, 110-B
Email: jwschroeder@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4456

Bio

John Schroeder (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is an associate professor who specializes in Buddhist philosophy, South Asian philosophies and religions, and Comparative Eastern-Western philosophy. He is coordinator of the Asian Studies program at St. Mary's College, is published in Philosophy East and West, and has had his book Skillful Means: The Heart of Buddhist Compassion (U. of Hawaii, 2001) translated into Italian as Upaya: Il Cuore della Compassione Buddhista.

Aerial view of St. Mary's College of Maryland campus

St. Mary's College of Maryland
18952 E. Fisher Rd
St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001
240-895-2000