In the study of epistemology, students examine the very nature of knowledge. Using philosophical methodologies, students probe the concepts of rationality and reason. They learn how degree perception and reality influence each other, and if pure reality can even truly be experienced.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.