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2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Thought

Programme code:BA-PHILP&SCTUCAS code:V551
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr. Heather Logue Contact address:h.a.logue@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 365

Entry requirements:

AAB at A-level.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/Philosophy.asp and http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/Psychology07.asp

Programme specification:

The programme will:

i) offer a learning opportunity that, within the context of the UK's broad spectrum of higher education, is unique in its focus on the nature of mind, as studied through a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

ii) enable a close co-ordination of research and teaching in focussed areas of academic endeavour in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and cognate areas of psychology.

iii) develop transferable skills in the analysis of mind and critique of theories thereof that will be useful not only in academic careers, but also in the professions of education, business, consultancy, management, marketing, social work and journalism.


Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

HPSC1030History of Psychology10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HPSC1045Introduction to the History of Science10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL1005The Mind10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1109How Science Works10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1250How to Think Clearly and Argue Well20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PRHS1025Introduction to Academic Skills5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC1605Biological Psychology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC1607Cognitive Psychology10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC1608Perception10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Students must take either PSYC1604 Social Psychology or PSYC1603 Developmental Psychology

PSYC1603Developmental Psychology
Pre-requisite for: PSYC2510
10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC1604Social Psychology
Pre-requisite for: PSYC2504
10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

HPSC1015Magic, Science and Religion10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HPSC1050Darwin, Germs and the Bomb10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HPSC1080History of Modern Medicine10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1080The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1090Knowledge, Self and Reality20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)


Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

HPSC2400History of Psychiatry and Mental Illness20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC2553Memory and Language10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC2554Perception, Action and Cognition10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules.

PHIL2121Introduction to the Philosophy of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2122Formal Logic20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL2212History of Modern Philosophy: Leibniz and Hume20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2221Ancient Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL2232History of Modern Philosophy: Locke and Berkeley20 creditsNot running in 201819
PHIL2295Ethics of Life and Death10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2321Political Philosophy20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2322Moral Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL2542Introduction to Metaphysics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2999Philosophy Students into Schools20 creditsNot running in 201819
PRHS2333Thinking About Race10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study two of the following optional modules:

PSYC2504Advanced Social Psychology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC2510Advanced Developmental Psychology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC2518Cognitive Neuroscience10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC2519Behavioural Neuroscience10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study one of the following optional modules:

PHIL2402Topics in Epistemology: Theory and Evidence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2422Topics in Epistemology: Knowledge and Justification20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules at Level 2.


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Optional modules:

Students are required to take TWO modules from the following list (this list is subject to change annually)

PSYC3502The Biopsychology of Human Appetite15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3505The Spatial World15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3507Applied Psychology: Critical Issues15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3510Reasoning and Decision Making15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3511Drug Addiction15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3514Occupational Health Psychology15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3516Evolutionary Psychology15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3517Approaches to Nutrition and Behaviour15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3527Techniques in Human Neuropsychology15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3528One Brain, Two Hemispheres15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3536Applications of Learning Theory to Psychological Disorders15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3538Development of Language and Literacy15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3539Cognition and Emotion15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3540Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3541Face Perception15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3542New Perspectives on Human Memory15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following modules

PRHS3000Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PRHS3001Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PRHS3700External Placement: Beyond the University40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study one module from the following list.

PSYC3403Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Psychological Disorders10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PSYC3404Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Advanced Social Psychology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3410Intercalated Programme: Advanced Developmental Psychology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3418Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Cognitive Neuroscience10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3419Joint Honours: Behavioural Neuroscience10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PSYC3421Joint Hons/Intercalated Programme Individual Differences10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Please note that you cannot take PSYC3404, PSYC3410, PSYC3418 or PSYC3419 if you have taken the corresponding modules at level 2 (PSYC2504, PSYC2510, PSYC2518 or PSYC2519).

Students will be required to take TWO modules from the following list (this list is subject to change annually). Note that PHIL3421 is REQUIRED unless the student has chosen to use it as the 'supporting module' associated with PRHS3001.

HPSC3200Science Communication: History & Theory20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HPSC3315History of the Body20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HPSC3450Mind, Brain & Society20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3112Kant20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3123Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3320Philosophy of Biology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3321Metaethics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3322Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3421Philosophy of Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3424Advanced Topics in Knowledge, Mind and Action20 creditsNot running in 201819
PHIL3522The Structure of Reality20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3700Feminist Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3723War, Terror and Justice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3851Introduction to Philosophy of Modern Physics10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3852Philosophy of Modern Physics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3855Philosophical Issues in Technology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3865Philosophy of the Social Sciences20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Last updated: 04/12/2018

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