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Directed Independent Study

PHI9XB - Classic Papers

Aims, Outcomes and Format

This module is designed to foster independent study and research by fourth year students and to expand and develop their critical abilities. Students taking the module will deepen their understanding of a selection of topics and gain experience in researching the background to articles, giving presentations discussing those articles, offering criticisms of student presentations, and contributing to group discussion. The format is as follows.

The first seminar will clarify the format of the module, deal with the schedule of articles to be discussed, and provide advice and guidance on independent study. All or most of the remaining seminars will be devoted to discussion of an article on a list to be distributed. Each such seminar will involve a presentation by a student of about 10 minutes in length on the article set for that day. The idea is that the student giving the presentation will use WebCT’s Discussions facility to circulate the text of the presentation to the others in his or her seminar group by 12 noon on the day prior to the meeting. Those receiving the text will comment on it using the same WebCT facility in the light of their own reading of the article that is the focus of discussion. The aim will be to discuss the set article in the light of the presentation and all the comments.

Availability	The module is available only to students who have completed semesters 6, 6 and 7 of an Honours programme and who have taken, or are simultaneously taking, PHI9XA.
Assessment	Coursework - one hundred per cent. There will be a short essay of about one thousand five hundred words based on the class presentationand counting one third towards the module grade. There will be a longer essay of two thousand five hundred to three thousand words other than that which was the topic for the short essay. This longer essay will count two thirds towards the module grade.
Coordinator	Sonia Roca-Royes and Philip Ebert
Teaching	A one hour seminar each week.
Regulation	For the purposes of the University’s attendance regulation 14, seminars are prescribed classes. The rationale for prescribing these classes may be found in the Philosophy Student Handbook, section F. This section also contains regulations relating to the submission of coursework, and other matters.

 

For further information about this module please contact Sonia Roca-Royes (A74) or Philip Ebert (A84).