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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- get acquainted with the works and ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Simone de Beauvoir
- develop an understanding of the key ideas of existentialism, its conception of the human being, freedom and the ‘Other’
- develop your ability to analyse modern philosophical texts
- develop your critical skills by evaluating philosophical ideas.
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