Postgraduate - UnitAPR6015 - Contemporary research in philosophy A

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Offered	Clayton First semester 2013 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Karen Green

Synopsis

Students will attend staff seminars, including pre-seminar presentations by the speaker (or, in some cases, an alternate presenter). Students will be given writing tasks related to seminar presentations. Attendance at a sufficient number of seminars will be a hurdle requirement.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit students should be able to:

Understand orally presented cutting edge philosophical papers across a wide range of philosophical topics;
Contribute to organised oral philosophical discussion of presented cutting edge philosophical papers across a wide range of philosophical topics;
Provide written exegesis and analysis of presented cutting edge philosophical papers across a wide range of philosophical topics;
Devise questions for presenters of cutting edge philosophical papers across a wide range of philosophical topics.

Assessment

Essay - 3000 words (unit objectives 1 and 3)
Quizzes - 1500 words (unit objectives 2 and 4)

Students will produce one major essay (3,000 words) by the end of the semester. This essay will provide exegesis and critical analysis of one of the presentations during the semester. Students will also be required to produce eight weekly worksheets of approx. 200 words each. (This will focus on the production of questions for, or the identification of major difficulties in, given presentations).