Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Provide clear, accurate, and reasoned information
• Summarise the contributions of different sources to justify an opinion or decision
• Collaborate, work in a team
• Demonstrate active listening and empathy in the context of an interpersonal situation
• Grow personally and professionally
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness
• Understand the various means available for documentation, to promote self-learning and lifelong learning
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology or educational sciences
• Give a critique and argue a point of view as part of a scientific approach

Learning Outcomes of UE

This course is as an introduction to philosophy. It is a long journey undertaken since ancient times, a sort of conquest conducted over the centuries by a handful of thinkers ( explorers ) who discover a new key to making sense of the human condition ... Upset our thinking the course ... is historical ideas, and more precisely a contextual history of ideas : how philosophy could answer the questions of his time, she was confronted with the emergence of new knowledge or political or religious upheavals? To philosophize is to share on the meaning of his life , on his commitments, the possibility of salvation , on the possibility of a better world, about human nature . Four important questions can be a good thread : what do I know ? ; what should I do ? ; that is it may I hope ? ; What is man? Socrates, Aristotle , Descartes, Kant , Nietzsche, and all others are essential references . Their answers are true or false , useful or useless, outdated or current is another matter . At each choice. But they have the power to tag the field of thought , provide concepts, explanatory models... This course prepares the students to become citizens responsible and susceptible to exercise their freedom and to answer it in the respect for the ethical pluralism, while understanding(including) the legitimacy of the social justice in a multicultural democratic company(society). Keywords: justice - the truth - morality - guilt - the good(property) / evil - virtues - reason - power - democracy - citizenship.

Content of UE

Examples: Philosophy, what is it ? A lifestyle . The three dimensions of philosophy. The Stoic humanism. Ataraxie . Epicurisme . School happiness. Humanism or the birth of modern philosophy . Descartes. Spinoza . Leibniz. Postmodernity. Contemporary philosophy. Myths - Christian philosophy . Kant. How the major concepts have they succeeded ? Etc. Topics: Knowledge of Self - Happiness - The Passion - Desire - God is dead - Atheism - Death - The Time - Leave the cave - Violence. Philosophic analysis of the tales (morality, ethics, symbolism, psychology).

Prior Experience

None.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q2

• Written examination

Q2 UE Assessment Comments

Study only the contents of the syllabus. The examination is in the form of a questionnaire with multiple choices: a single answer by question will be validated (quotation 1 or 0). Total level-headedness on 20.  The day of the  examination, the students will receive the questionnaire. The syllabus and the notes cannot be consulted during the examination. Dictionaries, telephone and computer are forbidden.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Oral examination

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

The students who missed the examination of the first session can present an oral examination.

They will have to answer the questions of the teacher.

The test will concern only chapters of the syllabus.

Level-headedness (Weighting) on 20.