Postgraduate Course: Epicurus and Epicureanism (PGHC11181)

Course Outline
School	School of History, Classics and Archaeology	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	A survey in translation of the philosophy of Epicurus and his school, with particular emphasis on physics and ethics.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	1 course text, A.A. Long and D. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. 1

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Long essay.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
-close, historically informed reading of philosophical texts -Understanding of the history of ideas, and the relation of philosophical ideas to narrower intellectual traditions and to the thinker's wider historical context. -links and discontinuities between contemporary ideologies and philosophical systems -awarenwess of the difficulty of dealing with fragmentary texts -philosophical doctrine as a guide to practical conduct and philosophical allegiance within the Greco-Roman world, -links between philosophy and religion