Philosophy Major

    Intended Learning Outcomes

    Regular Major

    Students will demonstrate:

    1. Understanding of major questions, ideas, and methods across the primary branches of philosophical inquiry (value theory, metaphysics and epistemology, history of
      philosophy, logic).
    2. Understanding of how philosophical methods and ideas bear on wider questions of social, scientific, and personal importance.
    3. Understanding of how important philosophical ideas are contested across social and/or cultural perspectives.
    4. The ability to engage in productive philosophical dialogue.
    5. The ability to construct sustained, well-supported philosophical arguments.
    6. The ability to engage in critical interpretative reading of philosophical texts.
    Integrative Major

    Students will demonstrate:

    1. Understanding of major questions, ideas, and methods of philosophy, especially those that bear on the subject of the student’s integrative major.
    2. Understanding of how philosophical methods and ideas bear on wider questions of social, scientific, and personal importance.
    3. The ability to integrate philosophical inquiry with the domain of inquiry specified in the student’s integrative major.
    4. The ability to engage in productive philosophical dialogue.
    5. The ability to construct sustained, well-supported philosophical arguments.
    6. The ability to engage in critical interpretative reading of philosophical texts.

    May 2021