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culture, opinions, values and beliefs that have accumulated throughout life. I could summarize this experience, as the students' discovery of who they are as international thinkers.
The course has content that delves into knowledge and the knower, optional themes all related to knowledge that shape people's identity, such as language, technology, religion, politics and indigenous societies, and finally, specific branches of knowledge that are known as Areas of Knowledge and that have a similarity to what we all know as subjects.
There are two main tasks with which the student's performance is evaluated: an exhibition and an essay for which exercises are developed,
developed, throughout the course, that allow the student to develop the skills and understanding that they need to carry out these two evaluations successfully.
Finally, I could say that the most fascinating thing about this course are the goals it has in recognizing the value of questions, exposure to uncertainty and possibilities, recognizing different perspectives with an open mind, the importance of moving around the world and understanding it, the connection between the other courses and methods that are studied, and the importance of ethics in our lives.
"How do we know what we know?" that is the question.
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