Admission requirements
Admission to this course is restricted to students enrolled in the MA Philosophy 60 EC, specialisation Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy.
Description
This course is concerned with how humans should relate to each other within and across cultural, social, and political borders. This is a broad remit that we will explore by investigating philosophical contributions to thinking about a number of highly contentious ‘problems’ of our time, such as mass migration, cultural appropriation, the limits of free speech, justice between generations, global justice, historical injustice and reparations, national collective responsibility, minority rights, political activism, and cultural relativism.
Course objectives
Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
critically evaluate philosophical contributions on the interplay and tensions between identity, culture and community, and with respect to particular contentious ‘problems’ of our time;
contribute successfully and constructively to class discussions that advance the group’s understanding of complex issues;
research an important problem in the area of the course; Identify an appropriate philosophical approach to framing and addressing it, systematically develop and justify an answer of their own;
provide constructive peer feedback on writing to fellow student and successfully incorporate peer and instructor feedbck on intermediate writing stages.
Timetable
The timetables are available through MyTimetable.
Mode of instruction
- Seminars.
Class participation is mandatory and includes advance reading and comments.
Assessment method
Assessment
Participation (25%);
Presentation (10%);
Intermediate writing assignment(s) (15%);
Final Essay (50%).
Class attendance requirement: Students absent for more than 3 classes will not be allowed to take the final essay and will not be allowed to pass the course.
Weighing
The final mark for the course is determined by the weighted average of the grades for each assessment.
A passing grade requires that both:
1. The weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.5 or higher;
2. Class attendance requirement is met.
Resit
Students who fail the course can submit a resit, which will be an extended essay assignment that replaces the grades for the final essay and intermediate writing assignment(s).
Students who fail or miss their presentation opportunity will be permitted a resit opportunity.
It is not possible to make up for the attendance requirement or participation grade.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Will be made available to the students on Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Huizinga.
Remarks
Not applicable.