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The course introduces students to the primary visual, sound and narrative conventions of visual media to create and comment upon significant social experiences and historical events; the second year core courses, cinema and the invention of modern life, and cinema and crisis examine an exceptionally rich and diverse choice of films from around the world; students are introduced to various national cinemas and movements covering the last 100 years of cinema history; and consider the principal aesthetic, cultural and institutional factors influencing their distinguishing features; philosophy is the study of argument and its application to a wide variety of questions of fundamental importance to human life and intellectual activity; philosophers attempt to answer questions such as: what is knowledge? what is the nature of truth? could the existence of God be proved? why should we act morally?
Philosophy: Level 1: Philosophy and human personality: examines general philosophical problems on the nature of mind and the relation between mind and body, personal identity, existentialism, and determinism and the possibility of free human action. Moral philosophy: examines specific moral questions e.g. abortion, capital punishment, treatment of animals etc, whilst introducing students to the underlying moral theories. Includes the study of Mill's Utilitarianism. Formal logic 1 and 2: basic concepts, symbolism and methods of propositional and predicate logic; quantificational logic and logic of relations and identity. Philosophy, science and belief: the nature of knowledge in general and the sorts of understanding provided by science and religion, and the rational justification, if any, for religious belief. Philosophy of art and literature: introduces issues in aesthetic theory such as the nature of art and art appreciation and aesthetic attitude; critically investigates prominent 20th-century theories of art, particularly Marxism, structuralism and post-modernism; philosophical issues in specific media such as literature, music, pictures and film. Philosophy, politics and society: considers key figures in the history of political theory, central political concepts and leading 20th-century political ideologies; some social policy issues and their underlying theories, including social justice and censorship; the proper methods underlying the social sciences. Global citizenship introduces students to the idea of being a world citizen, to what responsibilities in the modern world this involves, especially in the area of protecting the global environment, addressing issues of world poverty and working for peace. Level 2: Advanced philosophy 1: rationalism and empiricism through the writings of Plato, Descartes and Hume; some central themes in English-speaking moral theory, as exemplified in Moore, Ross, Ayer, Stevenson and Hare. Advanced philosophy 2: issues in moral realism; Kant's moral philosophy; issues in applied ethics; issues in 20th-century philosophy including Russell, logical positivism and the philosophy of language. Levels 3 and 4: Core courses; wide range of options including the study of particular philosophers and areas of philosophy ranging from existentialism to the philosophy of science. Film studies: Level 1: American cinema: basic introduction both to the expressive possibilities of film as a medium and to the various institutional, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the cinema. Course is concerned with narrative cinema, the most influential form of which has been the American cinema (Hollywood); features a range of films made between 1910 and 1990s. Level 2: European cinema: considers European cinema's modes of narration and representation, as well as its cultural and historical role, looking particularly at its relationship with Hollywood. Levels 3 and 4: Options in film studies.
BBB (SQA Higher: BBBB)
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Tue 18th Sep 2012 |
4 years |
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The deadline for the receipt of full-tim ..more
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Aberdeen, AB24 3FX |
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WV65
University of Aberdeen
Philosophy (Theory), Visual Arts, Film Studies
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