• should be enrolled for the programme in question under a diploma contract or under an exam contract to obtain a diploma
• should have taken all the exams that the programme encompasses
• should previously have registered for the programme with the examination board.
• should have acquired at least 180 ECTS-credits

diploma of secondary education or equivalent on the basis of the stipulations of the institution's access procedure or a diploma of higher education of one cycle with a complete learning programme or a diploma of higher education of social promotion

• Knowledge of and insight into in de fundamental structures of different sectors of cultural and social life, and of the fundamental aspect of being human as mapped by other sciences
• Basic knowledge of French, English and German 

• Skills in finding scientific literature in general
• Skills in critically reading, interpreting and evaluating (foreign) scientific texts
• Skills in analyzing and synthesizing texts, in finding and living the main idea(s) of texts, in rendering the idea(s) in a correct and subtle way.
• Skills in holding a clear, oral, philosophical discussion on a cultural-social theme
• Skills in writing a clear, scientifically sound philosophical text on a cultural-social theme
• Skills in taking position or critically intervening in a debate on a cultural-social theme 

• Critical attitude towards convictions, points of view, theories
• Being aware of concepts underlying these convictions, points of view, theories
• Being aware of his/her own presuppositions and being prepared to fundamentally question his/her own convictions. 

• Knowledge of and insight into the main concepts from the different fundamental philosophical disciplines
• Profound knowledge of and profound insight in the relations between these philosophical concepts and disciplines
• Knowledge of and insight into the history of philosophy, knowledge of and insight into history, the main philosophical paradigms, the different fundamental philosophical methods and recent developments of c.q. in the different philosophical disciplines
• Knowledge of and insight into logics, dialogic en rhetoric
• Knowledge of and insight in the general philosophy of culture and in parts of the philosophy of culture

• Skills in finding relevant specialized literature
• Skills in the critical reading, interpreting and evaluating of specialized literature and in the critical reading, interpreting and evaluating of (foreign) philosophical texts
• Skills in explicitly formulating presupposed standpoints, in identifying the tendency of the content of standpoints in terms of fundamental philosophical concepts and in the critical evaluation of the content of standpoints in terms of fundamental philosophical theories
• Skills in philosophical clarification of concept and in independently defining and developing a philosophical problem
• Skills in clear oral discussion of a philosophical subject
• Skills in writing a clear, scientifically sound text on a philosophical subject
• Skills in taking position or critically intervening in a debate on a philosophical theme 

• Scientific attitude: Being prepared to call upon different sources of philosophy, the reflex to analyze, identify and evaluate points of view in terms of fundamental philosophical concepts and theories, such as have been developed in the history of philosophy
• Being aware of recent developments in philosophy