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PHIL 797 - Thesis

(1 to 6 units)
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Independent Study: X
Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. motivate the treatment of their thesis topic by writing an informative introduction that synthesizes primary and relevant secondary literature.
2. explain and analyze the historical and/or contemporary philosophical context for the thesis.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships, in developing a sustained philosophical argument across a series of sections.
4. show what is at stake in the thesis, and indicate its concrete implications as well as the originality of its contribution.


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