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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Anthropology

136-446 Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr Tim O'Meara

Prerequisite/s:

Entry to Fourth Year Honours or Postgraduate standing.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

A weekly 3-hour seminar

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should be able to explore a number of methodological and epistemological issues at an advanced level.

Content:

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, and research design in the human sciences.

Assessment:

Essays and assignments totalling not more than 6000 words.
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