Undergraduate Course: Mind, Body and Consciousness (PSYL10025)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Psychology |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course introduces the hard problem of human consciousness and its context within contemporary psychology. It illustrates the role of the 'ghost in the machine' through notions such as the Homunculus Fallacy, Cartesian Theatre, Chinese Room, and Inverted Spectrum problems. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with phenomenological psychology and to debate and explore its ramifications. The course provides the opportunity to explore literature on embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity. Each two hour lecture consists of a practical and a theoretical period. In the practicum participants work together in small groups on structured tasks that offer the opportunity to experience the phenomenon under examination. In the theoretical period the course leader will introduce and summarise the topic, and some designated students will present short summaries of their readings.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Degree major in Psychology and passes in Psychology courses at least to the equivalent of Junior Honours level in Edinburgh. Prior agreement with the 4th Year Honours Course Organiser |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Block 1 (Sem 1), Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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| Central | Lecture | | 1-5 | | | | 16:10 - 18:00 | |
| First Class |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 1:30 | | |
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Block 1 (Sem 1), Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-5 | | | | 16:10 - 18:00 | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have both a theoretical and an experiential understanding of some distinctive features of human consciousness.
Be able to identify the distinctive features of phenomenological psychology and to critique experimental psychology and the cognitive neurosciences.
To evaluate notions of embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity in human experience.
To formulate applications of phenomenological psychology and be able to give a coherent account of psychological phenomena in phenomenological terms.
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Assessment Information
Assessment is by a final exam (75%) and five coursework assignments (25%). To pass the final examination students will need to identify the key features of phenomenological psychology, and formulate a phenomenological account of an everyday experience selected at the examination. A coursework assignment based on each lecture must be submitted within two weeks of that lecture. This will be a 500 word reflection on the participant&©s lived experience, relating this to their learning from the lecture and practicum.
Visiting Student Variant Assessment:
2,500 word essay to be set by the course organiser and due Friday 4pm Week 13. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Billy Lee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3342
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Course secretary | Mrs Elizabeth Wright
Tel: (0131 6)50 9870
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