This course encourages exploration of philosophy’s big questions, such as: What is a meaningful life? What separates right from wrong? What constitutes knowledge? What makes something beautiful? What is a just society?
Courses Type: University/College Preparation
Prerequisite: None
Grade 11 Philosophy allows students to explore philosophy’s big questions, such as: What is a meaningful life? What separates right from wrong? What constitutes knowledge? What makes something beautiful? What is a just society? S. Throughout this course, students will develop critical thinking and philosophical reasoning skills as they identify and analyse the responses of philosophers to the big questions and formulate their own responses to them. Students will explore the relevance of philosophical questions to society and to their everyday life. They will develop research and inquiry skills as they investigate various topics in philosophy.
HZB3M Online Course Outline and Timeline
Below is the suggested sequence of course unit delivery as well as the recommended number of hours to complete the respective unit. For complete details of targeted expectations within each unit and activity, please see each Unit Overview found in the HZB3M course profile.
| Unit Order | Unit Name | Suggested Time |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | The Toolbox | 15 Hours |
| Unit 2 | What is Human Knowledge? | 20 Hours |
| Unit 3 | What is Beauty? | 15 Hours |
| *MID* | Hours | |
| Unit 4 | What are Good and Evil? | 19 Hours |
| Unit 5 | What is a Just Society? | 15 Hours |
| Unit 6 | Metaphysics & The Real World | 15 Hours |
| Final Summative | Course Summative | 8 Hours |
| FINAL | Final Exam | 3 Hours |
| View Sample Gradebook Total | 110 Hours |
Please note, as per Ministry guidelines, OVS has a mandatory 14 day minimum requirement for student enrollment to be eligible for a midterm report card and 28 days enrollment to be eligible for a final report card.
Fundamental Concepts Covered in Grade 11 Philosophy Online Course
This course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge as well as a development of an attitude that supports these skills and knowledge responsibly. The course design is geared to meet and exceed the prerequisite requirements for studying social sciences at the university level. The framework of course delivery focuses the four “big ideas “of social science curriculum outlined on pages 8-9 of the Ontario Ministry of Education document:
Disciplined inquiry and critical literacy skills
Problem solving skills
Self understanding and the understanding of others
Local and global mindedness
The organization of the course is packaged into five units which correspond with the Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12 Social Science document. However, one of the units has been redesigned to what the author considers a more logical flow of material as well as a progression of difficulty from a students’ perspective.