Code | Type | Head of UE | Department’s contact details | Teacher(s) |
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US-M1-PHYSFD-003-M | Compulsory UE | STAQUET Anne | G103 - Philosophie |
Language of instruction | Language of assessment | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Credits | Weighting | Term |
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Français | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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S-PHYS-120 |
Objectives of general skills
- Provide clear and accurate information.
- Share their knowledge and findings clearly and back them up rationally to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Grow personally and professionally.
- Present the appropriate knowledge and skills to the teaching profession in upper secondary school (for students in the teaching sector); present the appropriate knowledge and skills for professions using the skills of physicists (and other) in different sectors of society (for everyone).
- Have a creative and rigorous scientific approach
- Gather and interpret relevant scientific data and critically analyse it, distinguising working hypotheses of proven facts.
- Adapt to different school groups by mobilising knowledge in human sciences
- Acquire a substantial amount of general culture to awaken student interest in the cultural world
- Measure the ethical issues regarding everyday practice
- Maintain a critical and autonomous relationship with scientific knowledge
- Reflect on practice
- Present information in a neutral and undirected way
UE's Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will be able to understand the principle conceptions of science and understand the limits of these philosophies. Students will also be able to consider these epistemological ideas alongside those of scientific method. The student will also have to be able to present a moment in the history of science, to non-specialists, using everyday language.
UE Content
The main epistemologies will be studied: inductivism, Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend. They will also be critiqued, putting them in parallel with one another concerning their conceptions of science, progress and scientific method. Futhermore, the course will feature key moments in the history of science, according to the students' interest.
Prior experience
Not applicable
Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type
- Presentation and works
- Oral examination
Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - comments
50 % from the presentation, 50 % from the exam.
Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - comments
Not applicable
Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type
- Oral examination
Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - comments
Not applicable
Resit Assessment for IT - Term 1 (B1BA1) - Comments
Not applicable
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