Goal
Goal I
Departmental Assessment Planning Grid – Philosophy
Where is the outcome
How will the outcome be
When will the outcome
aligned in the curriculum?
assessed?
be assessed?
Goals of the Liberal Arts Core as well as Knowledge Goals Specific to Philosophy: The Art of Thinking
Goals of the Liberal Arts
650: 021
A self-assessment survey
Fall 2010, and Spring
Core in the three intellectual
as an indirect assessment
2011
areas of skills, knowledge,
of student learning
and perspectives and values
Learning Outcome
Who will assess the
outcome?
Bill, Ed, Margaret and
Reza in Philosophy: The
Art of Thinking
2010
Goals specific to Philosophy:
The Art of Thinking in the
area of knowledge
Goal II
2009
Goal III
650: 021
A self-assessment survey
as an indirect assessment
of student learning
Fall 2010, and Spring
2011
Acquire knowledge of representative figures and developments in the history of western Philosophy.
State a major thesis or
650: 100, 101, 103, 104
Embedded assignments
Fall 2011
doctrine of two figures from
three historical periods of the
history of philosophy from
the following list: Ancient,
Medieval, Renaissance &
Early Modern, and Modern
State an argument for or full
explanation of the doctrines
listed at the bottom of this
page
Same as above
Reza in Knowledge and
Reality; and/or either
Margaret in History of
philosophy: Ancient or
Bill in Ethics
650: 100, 101, 103, 104
Embedded assignments
Fall 2011
Same as above.
Read and understand philosophical texts.
Restate the thesis and
650: 100, 101, 103, 104,
argument from the
142.
Embedded assignments
Fall 2012
Boedeker’s History of
Philo; Lahroodi’s
Knowledge and Reality.
Raise a significant question
about the text
Embedded assignments
Fall 2012
Same as above.
philosophical text
Spring
2010
650: 100, 101, 103, 104,
142, 150. .
Ancient: Plato’s theory of Forms, Plato’s theory of soul, Aristotle’s four causes, Aristotle on potency and act
Medieval: Augustine on evil as privation of good or on free will as the origin of moral evil, Boethius on divine foreknowledge and human free will, Anselm’s ontological argument, Augustine or
Aquinas on divine illumination, Aquinas on the distinction between being and essence or his distinction between natural and divine law
Renaissance & Early Modern: Montaigne’s Pyrrhonic skepticism, Descartes’ principle of distinct and clear perception, Hobbes or Locke on the social contract theory of the legitimacy of the state power,
Hume’s view on the a priori knowledge of causation
Modern: The possibility and importance of synthetic a priori for perception and judgment, major formulations of the Categorical Imperative, Hegel’s notion of freedom as reconciliation, Hegel on the
difference between civil society and the state