Core modules
Year One 90 CATS of core modules including 30 CATS in English 45 CATS in Philosophy and 15 CATS in a combined module 30 CATS are chosen from options in English or Philosophy
Year Two History of Modern Philosophy (30 CATS) options in Philosophy (30 CATS) and options in English (60 CATS)
Year Three Options in Philosophy (30-90 CATS) options in English (30-90 CATS) and up to 30 CATs of options to be chosen from any available subject
Year One
Problems in Philosophy and Literature
This module introduces you to the combined study of philosophy and literature bringing literary theory criticism and philosophical thinking about literature to the study of epistemology and metaphysics and ethics You will study the latter key areas of philosophy as represented by the work of Descartes and John Stuart Mill respectively You will move on to articulate your own interpretations of texts by authors such as Proust Coetzee Nietzsche and Beckett To read discuss and write reflectively about philosophical and literary texts and you will combine the approaches and concerns of the two disciplines
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Modes of Reading
What is a reader? How is our understanding and perception of a text formed? What does it mean to think critically when we read? This module allows you to explore these questions by putting a spotlight on the question of critical thinking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries By studying a series of literary texts in relation to some of the most influential literary and cultural theorists of the last hundred you will take your own position on everything from Marxism queer and feminist theory to ecocriticism and postcolonial critique
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Introduction to Philosophy
You'll have a wide-ranging introduction to philosophy including ancient continental moral and political philosophy followed by epistemology metaphysics philosophy of mind and aesthetics and logic You'll learn to engage critically with different viewpoints and critically analyse and evaluate arguments central to philosophy
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Year Two
History of Modern Philosophy
You will discover the metaphysical and epistemological ideas of great Empiricist philosophers Locke Berkeley and Hume on substance qualities ideas causation and perception You will then explore Kant's ideas including metaphysics space self-awareness causation scepticism and freedom You will develop skills in critical engagement articulating your own views of the relative strengths and weaknesses of these arguments and interpreting key philosophical ideas
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Year Three
No core modules
Optional modules
Optional modules can vary from to Example optional modules may include
Nietzsche in Context
Philosophy of Photography
European Theatre
The Global Novel
Topics in Philosophy and Literature
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