This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

ATS3876 - Theory of knowledge

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Organisational Unit

Coordinator(s)

Offered

Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The subject will take the form of student-initiated discussions on problems connected with knowledge and belief. It will be mainly based on recent articles, which will be mostly be found in the prescribed text for the course, and in the case of a few others, made available online.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Lloyd Humberstone

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Philosophy

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. As this is a third-year level unit, it is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two second-year level units in Philosophy, including ATS2866 or equivalent studies in formal logic.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/ugrad/units/phl3410.php