Student Learning Outcomes

Students Will:

• Demonstrate a familiarity with key figures in the history of philosophy
• Demonstrate an understanding of important philosophical theories from different cultural traditions
• Be able to articulate how some key philosophical theories are significant for social issues of the present
• Engage in critical reasoning by appropriately applying the techniques of informal and formal logic
• Be able to read primary and secondary philosophical literature critically (as evidenced by raising salient questions or criticisms)
• Be able to communicate arguments effectively