Challenge Seminar is epistemology-based honors course that is the capstone of rigor at East High School. Within this course, students will participate in scholarly discourse regarding philosophical questions about the nature of reality and humankind's attempt to create order and to understand the world.

I. UNIT ONE: SCHOLARSHIP AND THINKING
A. Scholarship: What does it mean to be a scholar?
B. Research: Library concepts and skills/IRP Guidelines and Responsibilities
C. Metaphysics
D. Epistemology
E. Critical thinking
F. Formal Logic
1. Traditional logic
2. Contemporary logic

II. UNIT TWO: ETHICS, MORALITY, AND JUSTICE
A. Nature of Ethics
B. Personal Ethical Approaches
C. Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy: Societal Ethics
D. Application to Modern Ethical Problems and Moral Dilemmas  

IRP due Wednesday, DECEMBER 14, 2011

III. UNIT THREE: WAYS OF KNOWING
A. Science
B. Mathematics
C. Language
D. Art and Aesthetics
E. History and Social Sciences

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT due Wednesday, MAY 23, 2012