School of Philosophy · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The course is designed for students in philosophy. It is designed to aid students in acquiring important research skills that they will need in the course of research. The course typically consists of 24 2 hour sessions in seminar format. This will be taken over 2 semesters.
6 x 1000 words, written responses to each of the readings (assessed by the principal supervisor) comprised of 2 responses to compulsory readings, 2 responses to selected readings from a given list, 2 reponses to self-selected readings
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
In-class participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
5000 words completion of a draft of a key concepts and/or argument and/or methodology chapter or equivalent
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from a) 24 hours of seminars over 12 weeks and b) 106 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
One of the learning objectis is for students to find for themselves important material. But their efforts will be supervised and monitored by individual instructors.