Student Learning Outcomes
Philosophy, BA Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 1 Analytic Reading
- Students will be able to extract arguments from primary texts.
- Students will be able to distinguish valid from invalid arguments, plausible from implausible premises.
- Students will be able to offer even-handed interpretations of texts, making issues and concerns relevant to the contemporary reader.
- Students will be able to contextualize texts relative to one another.
SLO 2 Argumentative Skills
- Students will be able to give valid arguments with plausible premises, anticipating likely objections.
- Students will be able to clearly explain a philosophical problem, canvasing some of its purported solutions, giving arguments for and against each.
SLO 3 Philosophical Knowledge
- Students will be able to identify central ideas associated with central figures and movements from the history of philosophy.
- Students will be able to identify central ideas and movements within contemporary metaphysics and epistemology.
- Students will be able to identify central ideas and movements within contemporary value theory.
SLO 4 Writing
- Students will be able to offer critical discussion that goes beyond mere reporting.
- Students will be able to articulate fully abstract claims in explicit, minimally figurative language.
- Students will be able to sustain a coherent intellectual narrative, including what is relevant, excluding what is not.
- Students will demonstrate a mastery of standard written English in matters of grammar, diction, and style.
Core Philosophy Student Learning Outcome
SLO b Students will be able to read and think critically.
Last Updated: January 10, 2018