Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Recognising and interpreting topics and problems of philosophy in its various disciplines.
• Analysing and summarising the main arguments of fundamental texts of philosophy in its various disciplines.
• Identifying the main philosophical attitudes in the field of aesthetics and critically applying them in the art world.
• Thinking in a critical and independent manner on the basis of the specific topics, debates and problems of philosophy, both historically and conceptually.
• Recognising the philosophical implications of the scientific knowledge.
• Applying the knowledge of ethics to the moral problems of society, and assessing the implications about the human condition of changes in the world of contemporary techniques.
• Placing the most representative philosophical ideas and arguments of a period in their historical background and relating the most important authors of each period of any philosophical discipline.
• Using the symbology and procedures of the formal sciences in the analysis and building of arguments.