(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
engage in informed reflection on their own lives and place in the world, the presuppositions of other individuals and groups (including awareness of differences created by time, place, culture, religion and society);
begin to develop original contributions in either discipline or an interdisciplinary area;
develop the kind of conceptual understanding which enables a detailed argument to be developed, sustained and defended;
identify the underlying philosophical or religious issues in a debate, analyse complex problems and detect relevance and irrelevance;
read and analyse complex texts (be they philosophical, religious, theological critical or analytic) and be sensitive to issues of interpretation (exhibiting, where appropriate and desired, linguistic and text-critical skills);
identify and select relevant scholarly and primary sources and make appropriate use of them in the initiation and completion of an extended piece of independent research.
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, theories, and arguments in the fields of Philosophy, Ethics and Religion.
2. Identify how philosophy, ethics and the study of religion can be relevant to examples outside the academic context
3. Make and justify decisions about choice of sources and arguments in philosophy, ethics and the study of religion.
4. Conduct an independent research project in the fields of Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, with appropriate support where required
5. Critically evaluate ideas and positions in philosophy, ethics and the study of religion, using discipline-specific techniques
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
The ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;
Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment (Communication both written and verbal in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences, Problem solving, Decision making, Ability to assess arguments, Ability to evaluate competing interpretations, Ability to construct and defend their own view, Ability to work with others, and Use of IT);
Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility (Learning to Learn, Ability to organise time and submit work to deadlines, Awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses).
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of each of the disciplines;
work that draws on a wide variety of material;
the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the disciplines;
work that is typically both evaluative and creative.
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