Ultimate Questions: Philosophy

Learning Outcomes and Essential Criteria

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Ultimate Questions: Philosophy Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

Explain and evaluate arguments for philosophical answers, including those in the Catholic tradition, to ultimate questions concerning the nature of humanity, reality and God, knowledge, and/or the good life
Apply an array of analytic methods, conceptual tools, logical principles, and other resources to their own inquiry into ultimate questions
Articulate and reflect on their own worldview and practices in dialogue with different answers to ultimate questions, including answers in the Catholic tradition

University Core Learning Outcomes

Ultimate Questions: Philosophy courses must be directed toward achievement of their Core component learning outcomes in order to introduce, develop, and achieve the relevant Core SLOs connected to this course in the overall Core design.

SLO 1: All SLU graduates will be able to examine their actions and vocations in dialogue with the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
- - Ultimate Questions: Philosophy courses must help students develop and lead students to achieve an examination of their actions and vocations in dialogue with the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
SLO 2: All SLU graduates will be able to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions
- - Ultimate Questions: Philosophy courses must introduce students to the practice of integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions.
SLO 3: ALL SLU graduates will be able to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions (Introduce and Develop)
- - Ultimate Questions: Philosophy courses should introduce and develop students’ skills in assessing evidence and drawing reasoned conclusions.

Syllabus Requirement

In keeping with the Office of the Provost's syllabus policies, the syllabus for any Ultimate Questions: Philosophy course must include the relevant programmatic learning outcomes. All Core Program SLOs and course-level learning outcomes must be listed.

In light of faculty's and department's own aims for their courses, additional learning outcomes may also be included, either as pure additions or as specifications of the expression of the Core component learning outcomes in the instructor's version of the UQ Philosophy course.

Faculty should incorporate the boilerplate information on their Ultimate Questions: Philosophy syllabi, which can be found on the Core Component worksheet page.

Essential Criteria

Final CORE Proposal 1.31.2020 (dragged).pdf

Teach students about – and require students to engage – fundamental philosophical texts and figures (including but not limited to Plato, Aristotle, and some figure(s) in the Catholic intellectual tradition such as Aquinas, Boethius, or Augustine)
Address the following topics: the nature of material and transcendent reality; belief, knowledge, and rationality; human nature and meaning; the good life
Introduce students to the methods of reasoning and inquiry employed in the discipline of philosophy.
Challenge students to articulate and reflect on their own worldview and practices in dialogue with texts and ideas studied in the course, including those from the Catholic tradition; students will produce an artifact of this examination

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Ultimate Questions: Philosophy

Learning Outcomes and Essential Criteria