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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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