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    Note: This is a summary of my course. The full document is a 15-page outline.

    I
    had a lot of trouble summarizing it, but I think you can get an idea of how it
    works...
    YEAR 1
    1. General Introduction & Knowledge and the knower (core theme) 2
    weeks (180 min – 3 hrs)
    What is TOK/ How does it fit into the DP programme/Assessment (Essay
    and Exhibition)/What is knowledge? / Knowledge and belief / ‘Who’ is a knower?
    (…)
    2. Knowledge framework 2 weeks (180 min – 3 hrs)
    Introduction to the Areas of Knowledge (A0K) / The Knowledge
    Framework.
    3. Knowledge and the Knower (Core theme) 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5
    hrs)
    What is knowledge? / Difference between information and knowledge /
    Can there be false knowledge? / Knowledge and the knower-Perspective
    in TOK (…)

    4. AOK: Maths 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)


    Mathematics in the knowledge framework / Is mathematics a language?
    Can proofs be considered mathematical truths? / What makes a
    mathematical proof “beautiful/elegant”? /Was math discovered or
    invented? / Can the patterns observed in mathematics be compared with
    that of art?

    Maths &Technology: When Computers Write Proofs, What's the Point of


    Mathematicians?

    5. AOK: The Natural Sciences 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)


    The natural sciences as an AoK /The natural sciences in the knowledge
    framework/ science and pseudoscience / scientific method / falsifiability
    criteria of truth in science/ Is science more credible than other areas?
    what is the relationship between science and ethics? (…)

    Noam Chomsky - Is Science Neutral?

    6. AOK: History 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)


    What is history? / Knowledge Framework / How does language and
    culture affect our perspective of history? / Can history be manipulated? /
    The challenges of recording history / Is there impartiality in history? / The
    dangers of a single historical perspectives (…)
    Do we need to decolonize historical thinking?
    7. TOK EXHIBITION CRITERIA 3 weeks (270 min – 4,5 hrs)

    8. Selecting the prompts and objects 3 weeks (270 min – 4,5 hrs)

    9. TOK EXHIBITION 1 week (90 min – 1,5 hr)


    (Assessment) / Tok exhibition
    YEAR 2
    1. AOK: Human Sciences 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)

    Human sciences as an AOK / HS and the knowledge framework / the


    human sciences and their sub-areas/ the method of human sciences /
    observation and impartiality (…)

    Economics: an art or a science? (YouTube video)

    2. AOK: The Arts 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)


    The arts as an AOK / The arts in the knowledge framework/ What is art/
    the role of the artist / How to evaluate art /Arts ant ethical limits. (..)

    Who decides what art means? - Hayley Levitt (TED)

    3. Knowledge and politics (optional theme) 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
    The nature and scope of politics / The relationship between politics and
    values relates / Communicating ideas in politics / Politics, perspectives,
    and context / Creating knowledge about politics / Becoming a discerning
    knower of politics.

    Politics & History: What is Historical Revisionism?

    5. Knowledge and technology (optional theme) 7 weeks (630 min –


    10,5 hrs)
    The nature and scope of technology / The relationship between
    technology and values / Communicating ideas in technology /
    Technology, perspectives, and context (…)

    How does technology change our pursuit of knowledge?

    6. TOK ESSAY 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)


    Criteria / How to structure the tok essay / Claims and counterclaims /
    How to find good evidence to support your argument (what makes a
    good evidence)

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