Modules Offered
Modules offered at Hertfordshire
Modules offered at UCF
HUM 5802. Applied Contemporary Humanities
3(3,0). PR: HUM 5803, graduate status or senior standing, or C.I. Development of an application research project relevant to contemporary cultural issues, using Humanities theories and methods.
HUM 5803. Theories and Methods of the Humanities
3(3,0). PR: Senior undergraduate standing and at least one of the following: HUM 3252, HUM 3320, or PHI 4808 or graduate standing. Approaches, concepts, methods, and theoretical issues in the Humanities with an emphasis on critical analysis of diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary theories and methods.
PHI 5225. Philosophy of Language 3(3,0).
PR: Admission to graduate certificate in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Philosophy of the nature of language and relationships between language, reality, cognition, and culture.
PHI 5325. Topics in Philosophy of Mind 3(3,0).
PR: Admission into graduate certificate program in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Contemporary issues in philosophy of mind, including explanatory gap, and the problem of other minds.
PHI 5327. Topics in the Cognitive Sciences
3(3,0). PR: Admission to graduate certificate program in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Theoretical issues and empirical studies in the cognitive sciences, including contemporary discussions of mind, brain, artificial intelligence, pathologies, behavioral capacities.
PHI 5328. Philosophies of Embodiment
3(3,0). PR: Admission to graduate certificate in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Relations among mind, body, and nature. Knowledge of self, world and others as articulated by Western philosophy, with special emphasis on embodied cognition.
PHI 5329. Philosophy of Neuroscience
3(3,0). PR: Admission to graduate certificate in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Neurophilosophy, including discussion of promises and limitations of neuroscience for understanding of the mind.
PHI 5340. Research Methods in the Cognitive Sciences
3(3,0). PR: Admission to graduate certificate program in Cognitive Sciences or C.I. Interdisciplinary reserach methods in the cognitive sciences.
PHI 5627. Theoretical and Applied Ethics
3(3,0). PR: Senior undergraduate standing and at least one of the following: PHI 3670, PHI 3638, or graduate standing or C.I. A seminar in theoretical and applied ethics with emphasis on application in professional fields. Variable content.
PHI 5665. Knowledge, Responsibility, and Society
3(3,0). PR: Senior undergraduate standing and at least one of the following: PHI 3670, PHI 3638, PHI 4300, PHI 4341, PHI 4400, PHI 4633, PHI 4931 or Graduate standing. A seminar exploring the relationship between ethics and epistemology with application to social concerns. Variable content.
PHI 5687. Ethics in Science and Technology
3(3,0). PR: Graduate standing or C.I. The relationship between ethics and the pursuit and application of human knowledge, emphasizing the responsibility of scientists to society.
WST 5347. Research Seminar in Gender Studies
3(3,0). PR: Graduate status or senior standing, or C.I. Research seminar exploring relationships among feminist theorizing, research, and social change,the development of gender studies programs and their relationships to other academic disciplines.
WST 5601. Theories in Gender Studies
3(3,0). PR: Graduate standing, Gender Studies graduate certificate standing, or C.I. Foundational scholarship in gender studies, with emphasis on theorectical and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and sexuality.
Other courses/modules
Note: These are undergraduate course that can be taken for graduate credit. For graduate credit they will require 3 hours of additional tutorials to explore the material in greater depth and the learning outcomes and assessments are set at the MA level. If you have already taken one of these courses of the same name at the undergraduate level you will not be able to study it at MA level.
Phenomenology (at UCF or Hertfordshire)
Kant's Transcendental Idealism (at Hertfordshire)
Language, Thought and Reality (at Hertfordshire)
Aristotle (at Hertfordshire)
Nietzsche (at Hertfordshire)
Topics from the Philosophy of Hegel (at Hertfordshire)
Representation and Consciousness (at Hertfordshire)
Contemporary Moral Philosophy (Hertfordshire)
Kierkegaard, Philosophy and Religion (Hertfordshire)
Wittgenstein's Investigations (Hertfordshire)