NEIL W. TENNANT

tennant.9@osu.edu

If you email me, please use the header PHIL 101: [YOURNAME].

Professor
Department of Philosophy


Philosophy 101 satisfies the Cultures & Ideas subcategory of the Arts & Humanities GEC requirements (2.C.3.). The general goals and expected learning objectives of the Arts & Humanities category of the GEC are as follows (quote taken from an official document).

2. C. Arts & Humanities GEC Goals and Expected Learning Outcomes

Goals: Students evaluate significant writing and works of art. Such studies develop capacities for aesthetic and historical response and judgment; interpretation and evaluation; critical listening, reading, seeing, thinking, and writing; and experiencing the arts and reflecting on that experience.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

  1. Students develop abilities to be informed observers of, or active participants in, the visual, spatial, performing, spoken, or literary arts.
  2. Students develop an understanding of the foundations of human beliefs, the nature of reality, and the norms that guide human behavior.
  3. Students examine and interpret how the human condition and human values are explored through works of art and humanistic writings
The expected learning objectives for the Cultures & Ideas subsection are as follows (quote taken from an official document).
2. C. 3. Cultures and Ideas Expected Learning Outcomes:
  1. Students develop abilities to analyze, appreciate, and interpret major forms of human thought and expression.
  2. Students develop abilities to understand how ideas influence the character of human beliefs, the perception of reality, and the norms which guide human behavior.

In Philosophy 101, students evaluate significant writings by major philosophers. Such studies develop capacities for logical, critical and historically informed analysis of texts and arguments; interpretation and evaluation; critical listening, reading, thinking, and writing. Students have the opportunity to integrate what they learn in both the sciences and the humanities, in order to reach a well-informed, carefully though out reflective equilibrium on the big questions and fundamental issues that philosophy addresses.