Contact time will comprise some or all of: lectures, seminars, small group work, individual or small group scheduled tutorials, whole or partial group workshops, student individual or group presentations, in-class tests or other in-class forms of assessment, student-led group discussions, student-requested or drop-in tutorials, telephone or other technology-assisted tutorials or conferences, visiting speakers, and on-line discussion, advice or feedback.

The Continuous and Formative Portfolio will consist of a set of elements, all of a formative (learn while doing) nature, and variously distributed throughout the teaching semester. There may also be diagnostic-formative assessments (learn while doing, but not formally assessed). The portfolio may include some or all of the following elements, among others: bibliographic exercises, PDP development diaries, quizzes, essay planning exercises, oral examinations, short answer or multiple choice in-class tests, self-evaluative exercises or reports, exposition essays, research essays, mentoring evaluations, individual or group oral presentations, presentation write-ups or evaluations, informal logic exercises, dissertations, field work reports and discussions, evaluation reports, literature reviews, on-line discussion forum contribution, continuous assessments of performance or contribution, on-line workshop write-ups, critical discussions, article or book reviews, research plans, methodological reviews and evaluations, career planning exercises and reports, take-away examinations, draft versions of any of the above, revised versions of any of the above. All elements of assessment within the portfolio must be passed for the module to be passed.

Key Information Set Data:
13% scheduled learning and teaching activities
87% guided independent learning

100% by continuous and formative portfolio. (4000 words)
[Learning outcomes 1 - 4]

Key Information Set Data:
Coursework 80%
Practical exams 20%

Bufacchi. (2009) Violence: A Philosophical Anthology.
Calarco and Atterton. (2003) The Continental Ethics Reader. Routledge.
Goodin, Petitt, Pogge. (2012) A Companion to Contemporary Political Theory. Blackwell.
Levinas. (2008) Totality and Infinity. Trans. Lingis. Duquense U Press.
Klosko. (2010) Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. OUP.
Schafer-Landau (ed) (2008) Ethical Theory. Blackwell.
LaFollette. (ed) (2000) Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Blackwell.

Seminar/ workshop room with computer and projector; library resources; office space for tutorials; university computing facilities; Blackboard.

This module will explore issues within European philosophical ethics, understood broadly so to include aspects of social and political philosophy, and likewise some aspects of the philosophy of mind. Themes covered may include: the relationship of ethics to ontology; the phenomenology of respect; the politics of recognition; the care of the self; the nature of freedom; the relationship of character to social practices.