Course Co-ordinator: Elizabeth Curtis

Pre-requisite(s):

Note(s): This course is only available to those students following degree programmes offered by Education (BEd, BMus, BA and PGDE).

At the heart of this course are considerations of the ways in which ideas of gender, power relations, belief and family structures contribute to how we understand what it is to be human and the impact of such understandings on the ways in which people develop as human beings and how they are treated in society.

2 one-hour lecture per week Mon, Thurs at 10
One 90-minute tutorial per week

Lectures and tutorials will be supplemented by tutor directed learning and discussion using WebCT.

Tutorials will be student led using a Philosophy for Learning approach.

1st Attempt: This involves a 2,000 word essay which has the following specific requirements:

• Demonstrates understanding of issues of What Makes us Human?
• Demonstrates the contribution of different influences in the development of ideas by a range of relevant references to the course reader and other academic texts.
• Makes reference to lectures and tutorial discussions.
• Offers reasoned conclusions about the experiences of being human.

Resit: Resubmission of failed criteria within 2,000 word essay.