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BSc Philosophy and Physics

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. Demonstrate a basic knowledge and understanding of common physical laws and principles, and some applications of these principles;
2. Identify relevant principles and laws when dealing with problems;
3. Manipulate numerical and other quantitative information, and apply manipulative skills to the solution of problems;
4. Execute and analyse the results of an experiment and evaluate the level of uncertainty in results;
5. Communicate in writing or orally the results of their work or other scientific information;
6. Engage in independent philosophical analysis and construction of arguments;
7. Demonstrate a developed understanding of and critical engagement with a broad range of concepts, theories, arguments, topics/writers in contemporary theory and/or the history of philosophy;
8. Demonstrate the ability to specialise and so attain a more advanced understanding of, and critical engagement with, a narrower range of concepts, theories, arguments, topics or writers;
9. Engage in informed reflection on their own lives and place in the world;
10. Identify and reflect on the presuppositions of specific disciplines and practices, such as art, politics, the physical, life and social sciences, as part of more focused study;

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
> Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment (Communication both written and verbal, Problem solving, Teamwork, Ability to assess arguments, Ability to construct and defend their own view, Ability to work independently and to deadlines, and Use of IT);
> Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility (Learning to Learn, Self-Management, Awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses, Strategies to improve their skills).

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:
1. Demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline of physics;
2. Producing work that draws on a wide variety of material in physics;
3. Demonstrating the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion in physics through in-depth investigation;
4. Demonstrating an advanced ability to apply the skills of argument analysis and philosophical methodology to their own philosophical view and that of others;
5. Demonstrating a developed understanding of, and critical engagement with, a range of concepts, theories, arguments, topics/writers in contemporary philosophical theory and/or the history of philosophy;
6. Demonstrating the ability to specialise and so attain a more advanced understanding of, and critical engagement with, a focused range of concepts, theories, arguments, topics or writers in philosophy and history of science;
7. Demonstrating the ability to reflect upon the implications of philosophy for their own lives and the world around them;
8. Demonstrating the ability for in-depth, independent research in Philosophy and/or Physics.

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