MSc Students

This page is intended for MSc students on the Advanced Architectural Studies course 2009/10 at Ulster University.  Students should make a point of looking at the general handouts on the Education page of this site.  Also listen to the click-to-play radio talk (scroll down or click on the image on the right) as an introduction to our potentially deceptive interpretation of truth. 

Click on any of the images below
to download the corresponding PDF. 

click here for radio talk
These are the first and second volumes of a four-part validation document specifying the MSc Degree in Advanced Architectural Studies
at Ulster University.
The student handbook includes guidance notes for MSc students as they engage with their studies. 
M.Sc. specification A M.Sc. specification B M.Sc. Handbook
Scroll down for PDFs of the extracts
referred to in the above handouts.

Students are warmly encouraged to visit Paddy Gormley's Meta Matters website, metamatters.co.uk.  Paddy's approach to the philosophical issues very much mirrors the teaching in this course.  Click on the image on the right to visit the site.

Paddy has very kindly agreed to make one of the Meta Matters radio talks available here.  The talk, entitled Seeing Is Believing, considers our complete dependence on symbols and, accordingly, on symbolic reasoning.  Click on the image below (centre) to hear the talk which is, incidentally, not the same one as is presented on the Meta Matters website. 

Click here for Meta Matters website
Words in Action
Paddy's teaching website, Words in Action, is also well worth a visit.  Paddy Gormley has been teaching creative thinking skills for more than twenty years.  The Words in Action site includes click-to-play films, audio, tutorials and other invauable resources.  Click the image above (left) to visit the site. 
Click on any of the images below
to download the corresponding PDF. 

Eidetic Reduction:

Eidetic Reduction

Hass:

Hass

Weiss:

Weiss

Baird:

Baird

Welton:

Welton D

Cave Painting:

Cave painting - click here for PDF