16.7 4th year Dr Tim O'Meara. Entry to Fourth Year Honours. First semester A weekly 3-hour seminar Students completing this subject should be able to explore a number of methodological and epistemological issues at an advanced level. Methodological and epistemological issues at an advanced level, focusing especially on causation in human affairs, the nature of understanding and explanation in the social sciences, hermeneutics, the problems of objectivity and value freedom, tests, the structuralist controversy, and research design in the social sciences. Essays and assignments totalling not more than 6,000 words.