On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate advanced and integrated knowledge of distinct varieties of Continental philosophy in their contexts from a wide range of periods and places
2. Explain differences between different philosophical schools and authors
3. Employ appropriate philosophical methodologies and argumentation
4. Demonstrate cognitive, creative and technical skills to generate and evaluate complex concepts as part of extended philosophical arguments
5. Write a detailed work at a high level in a range of critical and philosophical idioms

Identifying a suitable problem for research
Employing philosophical strategies and methods
Compiling bibliographies for research
Reading techniques to work through a bibliography
Developing techniques of advanced philosophical arguments
Structuring long philosophical arguments
Writing strategies for complex argumentation