Philosophy 12
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
- Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
- Assess the justification for competing accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence, including data (evidence)
- Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups and individuals at different times and places (continuity and change)
- Explain different perspectives on past and present people, places, issues, and events, and distinguish between worldviews of the past or present (perspective)
- Make reasoned ethical judgments about controversial actions in the past or present after considering the context and standards of right and wrong (ethical judgment)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Online Cultures and Values
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
- Technology Facilitated Violence: Criminal Case Law
- The Citizen Reporter
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
- methods of reasoning and argument in philosophy
- metaphysical theories about the nature of reality
- epistemological theories about knowledge and truth
- social and political philosophy
- theories of morality, ethics, and aesthetics