1. Pursue and evaluate knowledge through the skills of
inquiry, research, critical thinking and problem solving.
2. Communicate effectively in both speech and writing.
3. Understand the varying perspectives of the liberal arts
and sciences and apply them to personal, civic orprofessional issues.
4. Understand and appreciate diversity and develop a
worldview informed by multicultural and global perspectives.
5. Understand and appreciate the Jesuit/Catholic linking of
faith and justice.
6. Assess their own levels of commitment to community
service and to a just world.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in the content and methodology of
their discipline or profession.
8. Think systematically about moral, ethical and spiritual
questions and assess and articulate their own values.
9. Demonstrate team and leadership skills needed to convert goals to action.
| Undergraduate Students |
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| Department/Program Philosophy Student
Learning Outcomes |
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| Students should be able to: |
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| Students will be capable of reading both primary
and secondary sources in philosophy and of performing basic
analysis of their argumentation. |
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| Students will have an understanding of the
nature of philosophy as an activity and a discipline, including
its characteristic forms of reasoning, key themes from its history, and
key features of its relations
to other disciplines. |
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| Students will be capable of developing philosophical
arguments of their own, including the coherent support
of conclusions with premises and the ability to formulate and
reply to reasoned objections. |
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| Students
in the Core courses will understand the relation of the three
philosophy courses in the Core sequence and the place of philosophy
in liberal education in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition. |
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| Philosophy
majors will be well qualified for graduate study, whether
in philosophy or in other fields where philosophy has a reputation
for providing a good background. |
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