3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1010769AER for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
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Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Gustaaf Cornelis (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
70 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

Thematic and chronological approach to philosophy with special attention to argumentation, ethics (in particular science ethics and integrity), philosophy of science, as well as philosophy of law. Movements (might be) treated in depth: presocrats, platonism, aristotelianism, enlightenment, phenomenology, existentialism, positivism, structuralism. With applications.

Course material
Handbook (Required) : Met hamer en scheermes, Methoden voor fijn en grof denk- of discussiewerk, Cornelis, G., Pelckmans Pro, 9789463371117, 2018
Digital course material (Recommended) : Slides
Additional info
  1. individual notes;
  2. supporting slides;
  3. textbook: Cornelis, G. (2016) Met hamer en scheermes. Pelckmans;
  4. textbook (self study): Cornelis, G. (2013) Eerlijke wetenschap. Lannoo Campus;
  5. blended materials. 
     
Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Domain-specific learning outcomes:

Students know the central theoretical concepts, basic methods and techniques of related fields of science (in this case law, psychology, philosophy, history, sociology).

Students have a critical and ethical attitude towards the reliability and validity of research material.

Students have an a-dogmatic vision in which they do not look for 'ultimate truths', but recognize the relative uncertainty and ambiguity of insights coming from an open scientific attitude.

Learning objectives for the course:

The student knows the most important philosophical movements (relevant for criminology, with emphasis on humanism and liberalism). The student adopts a critical philosophy of science. The student has insight in the scientific methods, relevant for criminological research and knows its limitations. The student has insight into ethical problems and can formulate humanistically inspired solutions.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • schriftelijk with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: open en gesloten vragen

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written multiple-choice exam with a higher pass mark. The duration is estimated at 90 minutes.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)