2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Thought
Programme code: | BA-PHILP&SCT | UCAS code: | V551 |
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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:
HPSC1030 | History of Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1045 | Introduction to the History of Science | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL1005 | The Mind | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1109 | How Science Works | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1250 | How to Think Clearly and Argue Well | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PRHS1025 | Introduction to Academic Skills | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC1605 | Biological Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC1607 | Cognitive Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC1608 | Perception | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students must take either PSYC1604 Social Psychology or PSYC1603 Developmental Psychology
PSYC1603 | Developmental Psychology Pre-requisite for: PSYC2510 | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC1604 | Social Psychology Pre-requisite for: PSYC2504 | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
HPSC1015 | Magic, Science and Religion | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC1050 | Darwin, Germs and the Bomb | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1080 | History of Modern Medicine | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1080 | The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1090 | Knowledge, Self and Reality | 20 credits | Semester 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:
HPSC2400 | History of Psychiatry and Mental Illness | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC2553 | Memory and Language | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC2554 | Perception, Action and Cognition | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules.
PHIL2121 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2122 | Formal Logic | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2212 | History of Modern Philosophy: Leibniz and Hume | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2221 | Ancient Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2232 | History of Modern Philosophy: Locke and Berkeley | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
PHIL2295 | Ethics of Life and Death | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2321 | Political Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2322 | Moral Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2542 | Introduction to Metaphysics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2999 | Philosophy Students into Schools | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
PRHS2333 | Thinking About Race | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study two of the following optional modules:
PSYC2504 | Advanced Social Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC2510 | Advanced Developmental Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC2518 | Cognitive Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC2519 | Behavioural Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study one of the following optional modules:
PHIL2402 | Topics in Epistemology: Theory and Evidence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2422 | Topics in Epistemology: Knowledge and Justification | 20 credits | Semester 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)
PSYC3502 | The Biopsychology of Human Appetite | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3505 | The Spatial World | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3507 | Applied Psychology: Critical Issues | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3510 | Reasoning and Decision Making | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3511 | Drug Addiction | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3514 | Occupational Health Psychology | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3516 | Evolutionary Psychology | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3517 | Approaches to Nutrition and Behaviour | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3527 | Techniques in Human Neuropsychology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3528 | One Brain, Two Hemispheres | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3536 | Applications of Learning Theory to Psychological Disorders | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3538 | Development of Language and Literacy | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3539 | Cognition and Emotion | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3540 | Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3541 | Face Perception | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3542 | New Perspectives on Human Memory | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following modules
PRHS3000 | Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3001 | Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3700 | External Placement: Beyond the University | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study one module from the following list.
PSYC3403 | Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Psychological Disorders | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PSYC3404 | Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Advanced Social Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3410 | Intercalated Programme: Advanced Developmental Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3418 | Joint Honours/Intercalated Programme: Cognitive Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3419 | Joint Honours: Behavioural Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PSYC3421 | Joint Hons/Intercalated Programme Individual Differences | 10 credits | Semester 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.
HPSC3200 | Science Communication: History & Theory | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC3315 | History of the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC3450 | Mind, Brain & Society | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3112 | Kant | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3123 | Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3320 | Philosophy of Biology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3321 | Metaethics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3322 | Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3421 | Philosophy of Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3424 | Advanced Topics in Knowledge, Mind and Action | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
PHIL3522 | The Structure of Reality | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3700 | Feminist Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3723 | War, Terror and Justice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3851 | Introduction to Philosophy of Modern Physics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3852 | Philosophy of Modern Physics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3855 | Philosophical Issues in Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3865 | Philosophy of the Social Sciences | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Last updated: 04/12/2018
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