Understanding the Self

Description

Understanding the Self is a fundamental topic in the General Education Curriculum for tertiary education. The course is designed in dealing with personality, as well as the contributing factors that develop and influence one’s identity. Issues regarding identifying the self is one of the most critical dilemma the young one’s experience. Among the questions that are often ask and grapple is “Who am I?”

This course is conceptualized to aid and guide students develop to become a critical thinker and have a reflective attitude in probing issues concerning the self and identity for a better and proper understanding one’s self. The course has three major parts:

The first part enables students to understand and construct of the self from various disciplinal perspectives: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology- as well as the more traditional division between the East and the West.

The second part deals with some various aspects that make up the self like the biological, material, spiritual self, political self, as well as the most recent digital self. The third part provides a discussion on some issues of concerns for students these days, which are learning, goal setting, and stress.