Undergraduate Course: Belief, Thought and Language (SCAN10032)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course surveys anthropological approaches and debates regarding core human practices of thought, belief, and language; this includes attention to the conflicts and resonances between both 'emic' metapragmatics, and academic accounts of these fields. Through a selection of ethnographic and theoretical texts, this course will explore issue such as:
a) The question of whether or in what ways human cognition might vary between groups, and the differing capacities that come from different modes of thought,
b) Whether 'belief' is a universal category and the ways in which belief might be differently organized in relation to objects of belief, and
c) Different ways in which language is imagined to 'work,' and whether language has a special relationship to either belief, thought, or both.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Anthropology courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 9,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
165 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
20 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessed coursework (20% )and long essay (80%), both in a take home open book format. |
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
50 minutes per week for 9 week(s). |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jon Bialecki
Tel: (0131 6)51 5534
Email: Jon.Bialecki@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lisa Kilcullen
Tel: (0131 6)51 5067
Email: L.Kilcullen@ed.ac.uk |
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