6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 8023119GNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (G) Postgraduate - preliminary level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Pass/Non pass
Can retake in second session
No
Taught in
English
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Francis Heylighen (course titular)
Marta Maria Lenartowicz
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
6 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
124 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The ‘Thinking about Thinking’ part of the curriculum of the Postgraduate School of Thinking serves to provide a background for an understanding of thinking which is in itself a-disciplinary. This knowledge-intensive module aims to foster the meta-cognitive flexibility of the students by enriching their understanding of a selection of interrelated concepts and approaches sourced from cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, information science and cybernetics. Instruction is carried out in a high quality academic style, featuring a dynamic mixture of lectures, seminar-style discussions, reading assignments and quizzes.

Additional info

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Learning Outcomes

General Competence

The students will become fluent in crossing all kinds of boundaries, in particular those maintained by the academic disciplines and professional identities. They will learn how all historically evolved academic, professional, organisational, cultural and ideological worldviews, disciplines and categories can be deployed by the thinker, without anymore imposing on thought their impassable boundaries.

Grading

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

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

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

    Note: Online quiz

Additional info regarding evaluation

Online quiz

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:
Postgraduate Certificate School of Thinking: PGuestplan School of Thinking Regular