BA1001 - Time, Truth, and the Human Condition

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

This core subject for the Bachelor of Arts investigates ideas of 'truth' and 'ways of knowing' as they have developed over time. We study how these ideas have evolved, mutated and collided with each other with relation to specific places, times and cultures. One key aim is to provide an overview history of attempts to understand the world, and to show how this history has led to present circumstances; another is to develop the skills required to continue this story. Discussions concentrate on western traditions, but include important examples from elsewhere. Lecture topics range from competing ideas about our origins as a specie to key philosophical, religious and scientific views of the world and the place of humanity within it.

Learning Outcomes

• explore a range of academic resources and evaluate their accuracy and relevance;
• draw connections between ideas of truth and their time and place;
• work independently and in a group;
• synthesize and communicate complex ideas using appropriate terms and technologies;
• compare different traditions of thought and associated ways of knowing.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work individually and independently.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Victoria Kuttainen, Dr Anita Lundberg
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Kay Martinez, Dr Greg Manning, Assoc. Professor Stephen Torre, Mrs Helen Hooper, Ms Agnes Hannan, Ms Linda Wight, Dr Nigel Chang, Ms Tania Honey, Dr Claire Brennan, Mrs Kylie Bartlett.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	presentations (40%); multidraft Essays (30%); assignments (30%).
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Stephen Torre, Ms Linda Wight
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Kay Martinez, Dr Nigel Chang.
Contact hours:	24 hours lectures - Available from LearnJCU site 12 hours - Web-board tutorials
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	presentations (40%); multidraft Essays (30%); assignments (30%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown, Ms Linda Wight
Lecturers:	Mrs Janine Hiddlestone, Assoc. Professor Kay Martinez, Dr Greg Manning, Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown, Assoc. Professor Stephen Torre, Dr Janice Wegner, Ms Bronwen Forster, Dr Nigel Chang, Mrs Kylie Bartlett.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	presentations (40%); multidraft Essays (30%); assignments (30%).
JCU Singapore, Block, Study Period 52
Census Date 22-Jul-2010
Face to face teaching 28-Jun-2010 to 30-Jul-2010 (Most lectures and some tutorials to be delivered in face-to-face block with remainder of lectures and tutorials as well as assessment delivered online via LearnJCU)
Coordinator:	Dr Nigel Chang
Lecturers:	Mrs Helen Hooper, Ms Linda Wight, Dr Nigel Chang, Ms Carol Thirumaran.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - Face-to-face 18hrs + Online 8hrs 12 hours tutorials - Face-to-face 6hrs + Online 6hrs
Assessment:	presentations (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); poster - incorporates an interview (30%); annotated bibliography (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.