Note: This full-year course is taken during the junior year.
In the IB Theory of Knowledge courses, students examine the philosophical framework of each of the academic disciplines while learning to reflect critically and logically on ideas originating in the skills and on the beliefs, they have previously formed and acquired. The object of this study is to master a deeper understanding of the range and limits of human knowledge through the examination of the assumptions and presuppositions on which various academic subjects and belief systems are based. Through the study of the theoretical foundations of the different branches of human knowledge, the students are able to unify the knowledge they have acquired in a specialized and dispersed fashion throughout their schooling.