6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 8023119GNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (G) Postgraduate - preliminary level.
The ‘Thinking about Thinking’ part of the curriculum of the Postgraduate School of Thinking serves to provide a background for an understanding of thinking which is in itself a-disciplinary. This knowledge-intensive module aims to foster the meta-cognitive flexibility of the students by enriching their understanding of a selection of interrelated concepts and approaches sourced from cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, information science and cybernetics. Instruction is carried out in a high quality academic style, featuring a dynamic mixture of lectures, seminar-style discussions, reading assignments and quizzes.
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The students will become fluent in crossing all kinds of boundaries, in particular those maintained by the academic disciplines and professional identities. They will learn how all historically evolved academic, professional, organisational, cultural and ideological worldviews, disciplines and categories can be deployed by the thinker, without anymore imposing on thought their impassable boundaries.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Online quiz
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Postgraduate Certificate School of Thinking: PGuestplan School of Thinking Regular