Effective Spring 2025

The Hamilton Center offers two multidisciplinary minors, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) and Great Books and Ideas (GBI). Both minors prepare students for lives of success in a modern world and revolve around timeless classics.

Student Experience in Hamilton

Hamilton Center students have a variety of life-changing opportunities to pursue academic, career, and personal growth. Faculty facilitate connections to prestigious internships and summer fellowships enable students to get a head start on career ambitions. In addition, the Hamilton Center sponsors programs so students can study abroad at Oxford and Cambridge, two of the world’s most elite institutions.

The Hamilton Center brings world-class scholarship and instruction to the classroom right here in Gainesville. Leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences, Hamilton Center faculty are also devoted teachers. Students receive close mentorship from their professors who teach them in small classes. The kind of teaching the Hamilton Center aspires to support not only encourages free expression and the pursuit of truth, but also helps students develop the skills and networks they need to succeed in their careers after UF. Free thought, free expression, free from agenda — that is what students can expect from Hamilton Center classes.

Study the intellectual foundations of our world, understand new historical perspectives, and learn how to apply this knowledge for a meaningful career through our rigorous, multidisciplinary courses.