(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
On successful completion of the year, students will be able to:
Philosophy and HPS
1) Construct detailed explanations and critical analysis of a range of concepts, arguments and debates in normative and/or theoretical philosophy
2) Construct detailed explanations and evaluations of historical and philosophical accounts of sciences of the mind.
3) Differentiate between, and apply, philosophical and historiographical research methods in your own work.
4) Coherently develop and defend a complex argument in support of your own view on philosophical and historical texts, arguments and ideas.
Psychology
5) Critically discuss conceptual knowledge in Cognitive Psychology and either Developmental or Social Psychology
6) Apply, with evaluation, conceptual knowledge within psychological sub-disciplines
Skills Learning Outcomes
7) Express yourself clearly in the appropriate academic style of different disciplines (Academic and Work Ready skill)
8) Evaluate the arguments of others and construct complex arguments of your own (Academic and Work Ready skill)
9) Search for, interpret, and analyse relevant information sources (including numerical data) to strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research (Academic, Work Ready and Enterprise skill)
10) Identify when, why and how to appropriately acknowledge someone else’s work and ideas (Academic and Work Ready skill)
11) Take a logical approach to solving problems; resolving issues by tackling from different angles, using both analytical and creative skills. (Work Ready skill)
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules and will include essays, exams, reports and presentations.
There will be a range of unassessed formative exercises on many modules, allowing students to make progress with the LOs and skills outside an assessment context. The listed transferable skills will be exercised across a combination of core and optional modules, and opportunities for explicit discussion and support will be made available by module leaders in office hours and in routine meetings with academic personal tutors.
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