6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023254CNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
Philosophy - Moral Sciences
Educational team
Pieter Meurs (course titular)
Marc Van Den Bossche
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
120 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course integrates findings from various fields of science such as philosophy, anthropology and psychology. The focus is on how people attempt to give meaning to their lives from a humanistic, cultural-naturalistic perspective. We explore why people long for meaning and significance, how these meanings are found or created and what form they take. Authors used are primarily Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Dewey, and Mark Johnson....

Course material
Handbook (Required) : De zinnen van het leven, Of de kunst van het verstaan, Van Den Bossche, VUBPress, 9789057186370, 2017
Additional info

None.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students must prove to have thoroughly analyzed and understood the texts, but also to be able to apply these theoretical insights in practice through a case study.

Grading

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

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

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

Additional info regarding evaluation

For the oral exam, students are asked to develop their own case study. In literature, art or topicality they should look for an example of how a life acquires meaning and significance

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 Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: History (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Art History and Heritage Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Philosophy (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Gender and Diversity (only offered in Dutch)