Core theme: Knowledge and the knower

• This theme provides an opportunity for students to reflect on themselves as knowers and thinkers, and on the different communities of knowers to which we belong.

Optional themes

Students are required to study two optional themes from the following five options.

• Knowledge and technology

• Knowledge and language

• Knowledge and politics

• Knowledge and religion

• Knowledge and indigenous societies

Areas of knowledge

Students are required to study the following five areas of knowledge.

• History

• The human sciences

• The natural sciences

• The arts

• Mathematics

Assessment

Students are required to complete two assessment tasks.

• TOK exhibition (internally assessed)

• TOK essay on a prescribed title (externally assessed)