Monday, March 7, 2011

Feedback on Philosophy Courses

Please post your comments on teaching, learning, assessment methods, use of resources and technology in Philosophy courses offered by Sussex.

6 comments:

  1. Mrs.S.S.Naik said...

    Sir,
    You have given good information regarding the courses taught at Sussex University.
    What I liked the best is writing "Essays" which we do not have in our current system.
    I would like to know whether they are offering Inductive and Deductive Logic Papers over there.
    Can you send the syllabus of the Paper " Introduction to Philosophy"?

    Regards,
    S.S.Naik

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  2. Dear Prof.S.S.Naik,
    Thank you very much for your post.
    I find only Elementary Logic course for the first year (level-1; 18 credits).
    The Introduction to Philosophy course aims to introduce some of the central issues of Western philosophy, and to a number of classic philosophical texts at the same time. It begins from the particular moral problems that arise in connection with our treatment of (non-human) animals, and moves from there first to more abstract issues in ethics, and then to some of the most fundamental general concerns of philosophy, including, in particular, the nature of the self and its relation to the world.
    By the end of the course, a successful student should be able to: 1. begin to understand how to study philosophy historically; 2. demonstrate an awareness of the relevance of certain key historical debates; 3. identify and analyse arguments; 4. critically assess arguments 5. Argue for a limited thesis.

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  3. So these are the skills that the Philosophy Department is giving to students taking Philosophy. What skills does the Philosophy department of Chowgule College, and by extension Goa University, gives students?

    I was present for your presentation and I must congratulate you on this. If you are doing this around 2:30pm IST then it must be around 8:00 am your time. So where do you do these presentations from?

    Umaji

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  4. I have generally found that most of the requests that have come to you has been to get more details of one course or another. Very rarely have I seen anybody asking you what skills are imparted in these courses. Now why is that?

    Umaji

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  5. Sorry about this disjointed post.

    Would it be accurate that if Prof S.S.Naik wanted more information about "Inductive and Deductive Logic" and "Introduction to Philosophy" she could have gone to the relevant section of the Philosophy Department of Sussex University Website and got it herself? This is because this type of information is in the public domain.

    We need to highlight the skills that are being taught and then talk about how import those skills here, because the skills required by the Philosophy Department at Sussex University, SHOULD be the same as the ones for Philosophy Department of Chowgule College and Goa University.

    Umaji

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  6. Sir,
    I do the presentations from Freeman Centre. I agree with you. Our teaching and assessment methods should change in order to develop different skills.

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