Undergraduate Course: Mind, Body and Consciousness (PSYL10025)

Course Outline
School	School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	The course introduces the hard problem of human consciousness and its context within contemporary psychology. It examines the role of the żghost in the machineż and related concepts including the Homunculus Fallacy, Cartesian Theatre, Chinese Room, and Inverted Spectrum. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with phenomenological psychology and to debate and explore its ramifications. The course provides the opportunity to explore literature on embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity. Each two hour lecture consists of a practical and a theoretical period. In the practicum participants work together in small groups on structured tasks that offer the opportunity to experience the phenomenon under examination. In the theoretical period the course leader will introduce and summarise the topic, and some designated students will present short summaries of their readings.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Psychology Methodology 1 (PSYL10034) AND Psychology Methodology 2 (PSYL10035)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	Degree major in Psychology and passes in Psychology courses at least to the equivalent of Junior Honours level in Edinburgh. Prior agreement with the 4th Year Honours Course Organiser

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 86 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 75 %, Coursework 25 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment is by a final exam (75%) and five coursework assignments (25%). To pass the final examination students will need to identify the key features of phenomenological psychology, and formulate a phenomenological account of an everyday experience selected at the examination. A coursework assignment based on each lecture must be submitted within two weeks of that lecture. This will be a 500 word reflection on the participant's lived experience, relating this to their learning from the lecture and practicum. Visiting Student Variant Assessment (100%) Essay (3000 words) to be set by the course organiser and due 4pm, Thursday 11 December.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			1:30

Academic year 2014/15, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment is by a final exam (75%) and five coursework assignments (25%). To pass the final examination students will need to identify the key features of phenomenological psychology, and formulate a phenomenological account of an everyday experience selected at the examination. A coursework assignment based on each lecture must be submitted within two weeks of that lecture. This will be a 500 word reflection on the participant's lived experience, relating this to their learning from the lecture and practicum. Visiting Student Variant Assessment (100%) Essay (3000 words) to be set by the course organiser and due 4pm, Thursday 11 December.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have both a theoretical and an experiential understanding of some distinctive features of human consciousness and be able to: identify the distinctive features of phenomenological psychology and to critique experimental psychology and the cognitive neurosciences. evaluate notions of embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity in human experience. formulate applications of phenomenological psychology and be able to give a coherent account of psychological phenomena in phenomenological terms.

Reading List
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Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiser	Dr Billy Lee Tel: (0131 6)50 3342 Email: B.Lee@ed.ac.uk	Course secretary	Ms Fiona Graham Tel: (0131 6)50 3440 Email: F.Graham@ed.ac.uk