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ATS1371: Philosophy: Introduction A (Life, Death, and Morality)
ATS1371: Philosophy: Introduction A (Life, Death, and Morality)
- University
- Monash University
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- Arts Philosophy
brenden
10 years ago
- Assessment
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- Assessment Task (AT) One: 5%, 400 words. Three short-answer questions. Some comprehension, but you're also required to make an argument
- AT Two: 10%. Same as AT One.
- AT Three: 15%. 600 words. More focused on your arguments/logic, but comprehension still required.
- Essay: 30%, 1100 words. Many people struggle with this word limit, for the School of Philosophy is harsh in ensuring you are concise and effective in your communication. This essay asks for a very different style to what you will be used to, but there are many resources available on Moodle that you should check out when the time comes.
- Exam: 40%. Two hours. You get given seventeen possible exam questions ahead of time. Nine of these questions will appear on the exam. You must answer eight of these questions. (Which means you only have to prepare for sixteen of the questions before the exam
). They want 300 words per question, so 2,400 words total. A mixture of comprehension and argument, probably favoured towards comprehension - There are also 10 x 0.5% online quizzes that motivate you to do the readings ahead of time (So, Week Two's quiz opens in Week One and closes the Monday morning of Week Two). So theoretically, you could get 105% for this unit
- This unit has a hurdle requirement that requires that you only fail a maximum of one AT. So, if you fail two ATs, you fail the unit. That said, you would have to blutack an array of knives onto a wall, with the point outwards, and proceed to violently headbutt that wall in order to fail two of those ATs.
- Comments
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- The lecturers were second to none in this unit. Toby takes the first half of semester, and Justin the second half. Toby positively exudes experience and passion, and he's just deadset fucking brilliant. If I didn't have a girlfriend, I would try to grow facial hair so I looked older and try to get Toby to go out with me. (Oh, wait, am I supposed to remain objective
). Justin probably has less experience, and I suppose if you had to pick one you'd choose my one true love (Toby), but Justin is still brilliant. People with a mathematical background will especially love Justin's lectures, as he compares fucking everything to Math - (in a good way). You can't blame the guy, he did his dissertation on a comparison between moral realism and number theory something something (pretty good read). So, yep, 10/10 lecturers, both are happy to answer questions after the lectures and are just generally pretty cool guys that doesn't afraid of anything. - The Reader was brilliant, flawlessly written and an excellent learning tool.
- If you were looking for a GPA-boosting unit and you aren't totally horrible with English skills, this unit is probably the way to go. It's crazy interesting, easy to do well in providing you do the work, and they give you the exam questions ahead of time. What more can you want, Oliver?
- This unit acts hand in hand with Human Rights Theory 1 - my evaluation of which is here: Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings
- The lecturers were second to none in this unit. Toby takes the first half of semester, and Justin the second half. Toby positively exudes experience and passion, and he's just deadset fucking brilliant. If I didn't have a girlfriend, I would try to grow facial hair so I looked older and try to get Toby to go out with me. (Oh, wait, am I supposed to remain objective
- Lecturer(s)
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Dr Justin Clark-Doane and Dr Toby Handfield.
- Past Exams Available
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No, because that would be pointless - they give you seventeen potential questions ahead of time as aforementioned.
- Rating
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5/5
- Recorded Lectures
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Chyup, but no screen capture. Lecture slides provided every week on Moodle.
- Textbook Recommendation
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Definitely need to buy the Unit Reader. (Really well written, too). Practical Ethics by Peter Singer is also a compulsory textbook and you definitely need to read some of it to get the marks on the ATs. I suppose you could borrow it from a library every time an AT comes around and prior to the exam, and only do the readings required for the various ATs - however, this will leave you with an extremely stunted and shallow understanding of the course material. I really would just buy Practical Ethics (very interesting read, anyway!). These two are all you will ever require.
- Workload
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2 x 1 hour lectures (not auto-allocated), 1 x 1 hour tutorial.
- Year & Semester Of Completion
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2013, Semester 1.
- Your Mark / Grade
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90
- State
- VIC
- Type
- University
- Courses
- 167
- Campuses
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Caulfield Churchill City Clayton Parkville Peninsula
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