BA Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Thought

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in philosophy, HPS and psychology;
- deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within philosophy, HPS and psychology;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of both philosophical and psychological arguments;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship on the the nature of mind;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in philosophy, HPS and psychology;
- make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources pertaining to the mind;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an independent study or applied philosophy project in Philosophy or HPS;
- conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to audiences in the three disciplines of philosophy, HPS and psychology;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Assessment

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 philosophy, HPS and psychology
- work that draws on a wide variety of material relating to the mind
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion in scholarship concerning the mind
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry through the Final Year Project
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.