Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Philosophy

Students who have completed B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy will have ability to think critically and logically in a wide variety of contexts, and ability to grasp all angles of arguments and evaluate themeffectively that endow them to succeed inboth their personal and professional lives. They will show an aptitude for asking questions and finding logical solutions to problems and ability to analyse or elucidate complex ideas and concepts and to define them clearly and precisely. Furthermore, they will be able to interpret, condense and clarify the variety of information and accept challenges to debate at any point as well as ability to make rational decisions in personal and professional contexts. They also will have ability to engage in original and practical research in social science and humanistic discipline and ability to gain a firm grounding for a diverse range of careers in teaching, public, private sectors, research, counselling, social work, public administration, business as well as post-graduate education.

On successful completion of the Bachelor Degree in Philosophy, the graduates will exhibit the attributes with respect to academic excellence, employability, social engagement and global citizenship, and lifelong learning

Academic Excellence:

• Have an in-depth understanding of the concepts, theories, principles, boundaries, traditions, trends, ethics, and values in the field of Philosophy and allied fields.

• Demonstrate intellectual autonomy through the independence of thought, and openness to ideas and information.

• Demonstrate capacity for life-long, self-directed, and independent learning.

• Equip with the knowledge and skills required in research methods necessary for understanding political phenomena.

• Demonstrate ability to develop skills in writing, research activities, problem-solving, and communication.

Employability and Professional Readiness:

• Display consistent ability to apply academically gained knowledge in real-world situations.

• Show the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively and accurately in a wide range of contexts.

• Being adaptable, flexible, and working in teams to achieve targets.

• Demonstrate self-confidence, persistence, and leadership abilities.

• Possessing different types of academic and professional skills that cater to both the public and private workforce.

• Demonstrate the willingness to discuss issues in contemporary society.

• Demonstrate critical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Exhibit ability to equip for ongoing learning in the pursuit of personal and professional development.

• Demonstrate knowledge of how to set and achieve personal and professional goals.

Social Engagement:

• Possessing the ability to respond to philosophy with a great sense of sensitivity and responsibility, and reflect such sensitivity in responding to everyday events.

• Fostering loving-kindness, compassion, empathy, and patience that would help create responsible, sensitive global citizens who have high regard for justice, ethics, equity, and human rights.

• Conducting themselves as civic-conscious individuals who are more accepting and considerate of other human beings in diverse and multi-cultural environments.

• Developing their critical thinking skills and sensitizing themselves to understand the multi-faceted nature of phenomena and the complexities that arise in making value judgments.

• Acting as individuals who are able to respond proactively to human suffering rather than being passive observers.

Global Citizenship and Lifelong Learning:

• Demonstrate an attitude of social responsibility and an understanding of cultural and intellectual differences.

• Be effective leaders with self-awareness, interpersonal skills, and aesthetic sense.

• Show ability and willingness to constructively engage with the local and international communities.

• Equipped with the ability to explore and understand the full range of social and environmental issues.

• Ability to engage effectively in global and multicultural environments.

• Committed to work toward Sustainable Development Goals.

• Committed to adopt sustainable consumption patterns.

• Develop life-long learning skills in order to engage in activities for continuing professional / career advancement

• Enable students to work with a rational, creative, and ethical approach that combines conceptual and practical application through rational arguments, discourse, and philosophical methodology.

• Create a multi-disciplinary approach with recent advances in the discipline of philosophy.

• Bring in, integrate, and strengthen the cultural rootedness and appropriateness of philosophical knowledge and practice with a global outlook.

• Develop a positive attitude toward life and social responsibility.

• Create in students an interest in lifelong learning and an open mindset.

• Train students in problem-solving and transferable skills.

• Create students to think analytically, critically, and empathetically and argue with precision, balance, and insight.

PLO 01: Acquire knowledge on philosophical problems, their relevance to the human being, the positions of philosophical theorists, and criticisms of those positions.

PLO 02: Articulate fundamental questions about what exists, what we can know, and how we should live our lives; by recognizing the influential attempts to answer such questions, along with evaluating their advantages and disadvantages.

PLO 03: Attain competency in symbolizing, interpreting, and proving in propositional and predicate logic and understand how these processes assist in the evaluation of arguments.

PLO 04: Develop their own philosophical areas of interest by examining them from various perspectives.

PLO 05: Develop the ability to express philosophical ideas and arguments with clarity, accuracy, and briefness; and the ability to argue effectively in a debate.

PLO 06: Apply their philosophical learning on important contemporary public issues by analyzing and constructing sound arguments on the basis of philosophical research methods to articulate and defend their positions on those issues.

PLO 07: Solve problems by making decisions, especially on contemporary issues through philosophical methods with sound arguments.

PLO 08: Justify their decisions with rational justifications and evidences and by avoiding the fallacies in their arguments as they provided with the knowledge of fallacy.

PLO 09: Acquire knowledge regarding the nature of scientific knowledge and the logical base of scientific theories and the methodologies that were used by the philosopher to enunciate the conceptual base of scientific expressions.

PLO 10: Develop research skills necessary for writing a research paper that engages with primary and secondary literature in philosophy.

PLO 11: Explain the differentiations between major approaches to moral philosophy, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, social and political philosophy, mind philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and analytical philosophy, etc.

PLO 12: Acquire the reading skills necessary to understand and critically engage with historical and contemporary philosophical texts.