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 136-020 Explanation and Understanding: The Human Sciences

Note

Formerly available as 136-446. Students who have completed 136-446 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Monica Minnegal

Prerequisites

Entry to fourth year Honours.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

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

Assessment

An essay of 3000 words and two hours of class-tests.



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