The course introduces foundational concepts and critical thinking skills that students from technical or vocational backgrounds might not have encountered, such as theoretical inquiry and abstract reasoning. Block One will introduce Philosophy and relevance to Literature. Block Two will look into Foundations of Psychology, Critical Thinking and Argumentation. Content will cover: Definition and branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, aesthetics.
Relevance to literature: questioning, moral dilemmas, meaning, reality vs illusion. And for Block Two: Basic schools of thought (behaviorism, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology).
Understanding human behavior and thought processes.
Introduction to Freud, Jung, and basic psychoanalytic theory
Relevance to literature: questioning, moral dilemmas, meaning, reality vs illusion. And for Block Two: Basic schools of thought (behaviorism, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology).
Understanding human behavior and thought processes.
Introduction to Freud, Jung, and basic psychoanalytic theory
- Coordinator: LB Ralph Suleiman