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Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

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Philosophy & Critical Thinking via distance learning

Philosophy is the study of the most fundamental questions that arise from reflecting on the nature of the world and the place human beings occupy in it. The importance of studying philosophy lies in the habits of thought it inculcates, the breadth of vision it encourages, and the perspective it gives on ourselves, our activities, and our lives among others. The study of philosophy offers one of the best opportunities to enhance one's analytical, critical, expressive, and interpretive abilities, and to build both spoken and written arguments and respond to them. The program also suggests using philosophical wisdom as a way to cope with life, whether it be a specific problem or general depression. It is, undoubtedly, the beginning of a process that can enrich one's life immensely.

Academic Supervisor : Agusti Guisasola Prados
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Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online via distance learning

Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Philosophy & Critical Thinking.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Bioethics - Consciousness Studies - Ethics - Humanities - Language Studies - Legal Science - Mythology & Occultism - Political Science - Religion - Spiritual Science .

Specialist - Expert Diploma - Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Philosophy & Critical Thinking via distance learning = 48 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.

Bachelor's Degree - Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Philosophy & Critical Thinking via distance learning = 48 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Humanities.

Master's Degree - Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Philosophy & Critical Thinking via distance learning = 48 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Humanities. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Philosophy & Critical Thinking via distance learning = 48 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Humanities. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

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Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
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Perception & Knowledge
This course examines the complex process by which information is gathered by our sensory organs and converted to a subjective precept. The acquisition and communication of knowledge demands a coherent cognitive framework to reason about the events and states that influence us. The course deals with plausible frameworks and how these choices influence our deductive and creative processes.
Academic Supervisor: Román Gonzalvo Pérez

The Search for Meaning
This course focuses on the relationship between problems and the meaning individuals seeks in life. Distinction is made between philosophy and spirituality. It explores the stages of psychological and spiritual development of the individual and the methods for evoking meaning and purpose in life.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Philosophic Trends
This course explores the foundations of the major philosophical trends and their representative philosophers. It addresses the practical similarities and differences between these philosophers and the methods they use to solve human problems.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Philosophy of Ethics & Law
This course investigates the philosophical problems of the social and political interaction, including ideology, law, and ethics. It explores normative ethical theories that attempt to say what we ought to do and the relations between legal rules and the rules of ethics and custom. It studies the social and ethical foundation of law and legitimacy and the limits of law and the state. It also explores moral reasoning and how rigorous an ethical position can be applied to real-life experiences.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison

Moral Principles
This course deals the moral principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group. It examines the body of standards derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, culture, or personal beliefs. Understanding the moral principles is important because they govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Multicultural Diversity
The course shows how to deal with a different culture. It covers identity development, acculturation, class, prejudice and discrimination, demographics, and verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of different cultures and values. It examines the impact of different cultural backgrounds on managerial decisions and highlights the complexities of management in a global environment.
Academic Supervisor: Catherine Wanjiru Gachutha

Indian Philosophies
This course addresses the doctrines and arguments of the major Indian schools of philosophy (Samkhya, Buddhist, Vedanta, Nyaya-Vaisesika, and Navya-Nyaya). It demonstrates how these schools ground their religious systems by logically discussing the human soul, God, and the path to nirvana.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley

Philosophy of Religion
This course provides a philosophical analysis of the major religious concepts, such as God, the relationship between faith and reason, human nature, freedom of will, immortality, and the problem of evil.
Academic Supervisor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado

Law & Justice
This course of law and justice debates the separation between the application of the law an actual justice. Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior with justice, but the concept of justice differs in every culture. Justice is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, a concept being impacted with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality, law, religion, equity and fairness.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison

Theory of Knowledge
This course explores different theoretical perspectives of the process of discovering the world and oneself. It analyzes the concepts of knowledge, the logical structure of propositions and arguments, and the structure of the justification of our beliefs. It provides a framework to understand reality.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Philosophy of Language
This course studies the major topics and concepts of language philosophy namely the nature and structure of language, how meaning emerges in language, the relationship of language and the world, the role of ambiguity in dialogue, and the evolution of language in community.
Academic Supervisor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado

Philosophy of Mind
This course examines the central problems of mind philosophy from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including the mind-body problem, the nature of mental states, intention and representation, sensation and consciousness, and related topics.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Philosophy of Science
This course distinguishes between scientific and nonscientific reasoning, problems of scientific methodology, and science. It considers theory construction and testing, the ontological status of theories in science, causality, demonstration, probability, and the scientific method.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Metaphysics
This course examines problems such as the concepts of existence, essence, god, universals and particulars, the nature of change, possibility, causation, space, and time. Also, it discusses other traditional philosophical issues that form part of metaphysics namely free will, mind/body problem, soul, consciousness, and the existence of abstract entities (e.g. numbers).
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley

Ethical Dilemmas
This course explores the ethical dilemmas or ethical paradox, a decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The complexity arises out of the situational conflict in which obeying would result in transgressing another. Ethical dilemmas may be invoked to refute an ethical system or moral code, or to improve it so as to resolve the paradox.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

Philosophy & Critical Thinking
This course introduces philosophy through a study of a number of central inquiries, for example, questions about the existence and definition of God, the nature of the mind, freedom of the will, and criteria of truth and knowledge. The aim of this course is to think and argue critically about these questions.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados

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Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online via distance learning

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Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...

ABF - Academia Brasileira de Filosofia
ABFR - Associação Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião
ABRAFP - Associação Brasileira de Filosofia e Psicanálise
ACFAS - Association Francophone pour le Savoir
AEEFP - Asociación Española de Ética y Filosofía Política
AFYL - Asociación de Filosofía y Liberación
AGEAC - Asociación Geofilosófica de Estudios Antropológicos y Culturales
AIFIBI - Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología
AILACT - Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
APA - American Philosophical Association
APEFP - Associação Portuguesa de Ética e Filosofia Prática
AS - Aristotelian Society
Associação Portuguesa de Ética e Filosofia Práctica
BPA - British Philosophical Association
BSPS - British Society for the Philosophy of Science
CTA - Critical Thinking Association
DFE - Diccionario de Filosofía en Español
ESPP - European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
FAPSA - Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations
FCT - Foundation For Critical Thinking
FESOFI - Federación de Sociedades de Filosofía
FISP - Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie
FNLP - Fédération Nationale de la Libre Pensée
GPC - Grupo Pensamiento Crítico
IAPL - International Association for Philosophy and Literature
IAWP - International Association of Women Philosophers
ICPHS - International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences
ISPC - International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
ISSR - International Society for Science & Religion
ONPHI - Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale
PC - Pensamento Crítico
PSA - Philosophy of Science Association
RIP - Royal Institute Philosophy
SAF - Sociedad Académica de Filosofía
SAP - Society for Applied Philosophy
SAPE - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico
SBFA - Sociedade Brasileira de Filosofia Analítica
SEPFI - Sociedad Española de Profesores de Filosofía
SFP - Société Française de Philosophie
SPF - Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia
SWIP UK - UK Society for Women in Philosophy
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Admission requirements - Philosophy & Critical Thinking

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...

Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...

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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education

This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...

Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
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Duration - Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online via distance learning

For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...

All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.

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Philosophy & Critical Thinking Online

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.