External Study/Distance Education
The Department of Philosophy is offering twelve units online in external mode in 2008. We are currently building up our external philosophy program gradually. Over the next two years we will continue to expand the range of units available to distance education students. It is now possible to complete a major in Philosophy in external mode. This requires 28 credit points in Philosophy, including 12 at 300-level, and constitutes a coherent and comprehensive overview of major issues in contemporary philosophy, spanning problems about mind, self, and knowledge; ethics, morality, and justice; and freedom, power, and desire.
The units available in 2008 include our 4 central introductory units at 100-level. There are two focussed skills units, in formal logic (PHIL134) and critical thinking (PHIL137), and two core introductory units (PHIL131 Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics, and PHIL132 Philosophy, Morality, and Society). Students successfully completing any two of these units in 2008 will be well placed to proceed to 200-level philosophy units in 2008.
There will be two on-campus sessions of 1 day each for PHIL131, PHIL132, PHIL134 and PHIL137, to be held on the following dates:
PHIL131: Saturday 6 September & Saturday 1 November 2008
PHIL132: Saturday 29 March & Saturday 24 May 2008
PHIL134: Saturday 13 September & Saturday 8 November 2008
PHIL137: Saturday 15 March & Saturday 17 May 2008
Other units offered in external mode are: PHIL250 Aesthetics, PHIL254 Freedom and Alienation, PHIL264/PHIL364 Business and Professional Ethics, PHIL356 Contemporary European Philosophy, PHIL363 Philosophy and Cognitive Science, PHIL365 Philosophy and Cinema, and PHIL382 Agency and the Self. There will be no on-campus sessions for these units.
Click here for the unit descriptions. For more information on external study/distance education, please visit the Centre for Open Education website.