| CAO CODE: TR209
Economics teaching in the Freshman (first two) years emphasises the understanding of the basic principles of economics and the acquisition of the quantitative skills in mathematics and statistics necessary for more in-depth study.
The General Aims of the Philosophy Courses at Trinity:
* to give students a solid, scholarly grounding in the classical texts which form the history of western philosophy, which in turn has been one of the formative influences upon western culture.
* to teach students to think for themselves by teaching them the fundamentals of both formal and informal reasoning.
* to teach students to question their own basic assumptions as well as to articulate and support their own points of view carefully and thoughtfully, both on paper and in speech.
* to teach students how to subject someone else's viewpoint or theory or argument to careful, rigorous, yet fair critique.
* to give students the confidence to engage in a sophisticated analytical way with the moral, political, aesthetic and religious questions which lie at the heart of their own culture in their own generation.
* to give students a breadth of interests which can only be acquired by studying the thought of both the present and past ages, and of both their own and other cultural milieus.
* to encourage students in the search for (and perhaps even the attainment of) truth.
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