📖Program Curriculum
The first-year curriculum is structured to allow you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline before going on, in the second and final, to more specialist and optional modules. This will allow you to gain a broad and varied exposure to the field of philosophy, as well as to develop your interests for specialist study in further. Creative and research-based work, as well as assessment, will allow you to develop your career aspirations and employability skills.
Modules
Life, the Universe and Everything - 20 credits
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Modern Philosophy - 20 credits
Thinkers on Trial: The Life and Death of Ideas - 20 credits
Ethics of Climate Change and Interspecies Thriving - 20 credits
Philosophical Methods - 20 credits
Creative Philosophy Project - 20 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
In the second, you will begin to specialise by looking at core aspects of philosophy through key contemporary questions and issues, such as gender and sexuality, disability, and media and mediation. You will draw upon threads initiated in first, expanding your understanding of issues in ecology, as well as applying the theories of thinkers encountered during the survey modules.
Modules
Alternative Facts: Logic and Reason in a ‘Post-Truth’ World - 20 credits
Ecophilosophies and Climate Justice - 20 credits
Fierce Feminist Figureheads - 20 credits
Mediated Worlds - 20 credits
Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits
Experience and Language: Propositions and Signs - 20 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement2 can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
If you choose to do a work placement, you will pay a reduced tuition fee3 of £1,250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement.
Modules
UK Work Placement – 0 credits
International Study/Work Placement – 0 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Your final is entirely up to you! Choose from a series of exciting option modules to tailor your learning experience to your interests, whether this be through type of philosophy, approach, assessment type or simply preference. Modules will allow you to get creative or stay traditional, fully expressing your philosophical self. In your final, you can choose from a range of optional modules, your chosen modules must total 120 credits.
Modules
Disabling Philosophy - 20 credits
The Existentialist Café: Ethics in a Coffee Cup - 20 credits
Speculative Fiction - 20 credits
The Lunar Society: Philosophy of the Midlands - 20 credits
Stubborn Objects: New Materialisms and Flat Ontologies - 20 credits
Are Numbers Real? - 20 credits
Enlightenment: Literature, Culture, Modernity - 20 credits
Final Project - 40 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
