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 121-085 Explanation and Understanding

Note

Formerly available as 136-020. Students who have completed 136-020 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Monica Minnegal

Prerequisites

Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in Anthropology.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 3-hour seminar per week for eight weeks

Subject Description

This subject 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

Written work totalling 5000 words.

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