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136-071 HPS Advanced Coursework | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-497. Students who have completed 136-497 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 50 |
Coordinator | Dr Neil Thomason |
Prerequisites | Admission to Honours see Honours entry |
Semester | Year long (view timetable) |
Subject Description | Subject 136-071 comprises: four 1-semester courses chosen from the HPS Department fourth year and Postgraduate level courses and approved by your supervisor. Where a fourth year or Postgraduate course offered by a cognate department is particularly relevant to a student's thesis, permission may be granted for enrolment in that subject. Seminars may be offered in the areas of writing about science; physical science in the 18th century; institutional structures of Australian science - historical perspectives; science in the classical world; scepticism, fallibilism and relativism; philosophy of T. S. Kuhn; use and philosophical foundations of statistics; disease and society; technology and social context in the biological and health sciences; environmental perspectives and policy; history of technology. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 5000 words. |
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