Reading group for those interested in Non-Classical Logic. Maths and Computer Science students are welcome. The Term 1 topic will be Intuitionism. Thursday 3-4pm in the Philosophy Common Room.

New policy and procedure to requesting authorised absences from missed monitoring points (UG and PGT) and notifying the department of special circumstances regarding examinations (UG):

With the introduction of revised monitoring point schemes (which are clearly detailed in student handbooks and in each student’s tabula profile), the department has developed a new policy and process for notifying the department of circumstances leading to missed monitoring points and requesting authorisation for those missed points on a number of different grounds. All UG and PGT students who have missed monitoring points during term 1 will be emailed early in the new year drawing their attention to this policy and procedure and also inviting students to talk to personal tutors especially where more than one monitoring point has been missed.

For full details of the new policy and procedure to request authorised absences please see:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/undergraduate/absenceform/ 

and for further details on student monitoring points and expectations for study please see the appropriate student handbook for your course of study.

The Deparment has updated the Choosing your Assessment Methods and Permission to Submit an Assessed Essay webpages to reflect the assessment policy for intermediate year students during 2013/14. Full information and details for the procedure to choose assessment methods next term and, where appropriate, essay titles can be viewed on these webpages and students will additionally be contacted at the start of next term via email.

The results of the 2013 Philosophy and Literature Essay Competition, sponsored by alumnus Andy Charman are out !

Congratulations go to:

1st prize: James Loveard (BA 2012)

2nd prize: Jamie Williams (BA 2012)

3rd prize: Edward McNally (2nd year BA)

The Philsophy department’s student administration system has changed over the summer. We will no longer be using report-tool for seminar allocation and student reports and have now implemented the University’s student administration system ‘Tabula’.

Tabula is an easy to use, on-line administration system designed to support the administration of teaching and learning in academic departments. We have already implement the coursework management element of this system last academic year for the submission of essays and distribution of feedback and believe that the full implementation of this system further will improve your student experience.

The system will support the department in a number of key areas that will ensure we can better support staff and students throughout the course of your studies. Students should note that it will be used for the following with effect from October 2013.

· Small group teaching allocation and self-sign up for seminar groups (Tabula is very similar to report tool in this respect so the transition should befairly smooth).

· Sudents will be able to view their personal student profile which will include information such as an up-to-date timetable, the modules students have registered for, who their personal tutor is etc.

· Personal tutors and supervisors will record brief details of meetings with students on the system that should be approved by both parties (that can only be viewed by student, the personal tutor/supervisor and in the case of UG students the Senior Tutor) to ensure accurate records are kept of such meetings for future reference to support these relationships.

· Finally the coursework management section of Tabula will be implemented in full within the department for the submission of all coursework/essays and distribution of feedback across all of our programmes of study.

You can access Tabula from the following webpage:

https://tabula.warwick.ac.uk/

FAQ’s are available for the different areas of Tabula and can be found at the following webpages:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/web/tabula/faqs/