IB Diploma Programme: TOK

The TOK course provides students with an opportunity to explore and reflect on the nature of knowledge and the process of knowing.

The TOK curriculum consists of three interconnected parts.

1. Core theme: Knowledge and the knower
   This theme provides an opportunity for students to reflect on themselves as knowers and thinkers, and on the different communities of knowers to which we belong.
2. Optional themes
   Students are required to study two optional themes from the following five options.
   • Knowledge and technology
   • Knowledge and language
   • Knowledge and politics
   • Knowledge and religion
   • Knowledge and indigenous societies
3. Areas of knowledge
   Students are required to study the following five areas of knowledge.
   • History
   • The human sciences
   • The natural sciences
   • The arts
   • Mathematics

There are two assessment tasks for TOK.

• Theory of knowledge exhibition
• Theory of knowledge essay on a prescribed title

Source: IB TOK guide (First assessment 2022)