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Master of Arts (Honours) Philosophy and Statistics

MA Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year PHIPHIJJ1A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Reasoning	20	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199		AND
		Mind and World	20
		Moral and Political Controversies	20
		Reasoning	20
		The Enlightenment	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year "First and Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements: 20 credits: PY1012; A minimum of 40 credits: PY2000-PY2103; A minimum of 20 further credits: PY1001-PY1199, PY2000-PY2103; Please balance your choices across the academic year."

MA (Joint Honours) Statistics element: First year STASTAJJ1A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Mathematics	20	AND
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Students without the prerequisite for MT1002 will take MT1001 in Semester 1.

MA Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year PHIPHIJJ2A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	At least 40 credits from Module List: PY2000 - PY2103		AND
		Intermediate Logic	20
		Foundations of Western Philosophy	20
		Meaning and Knowing	20
		Moral and Aesthetic Value	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199, PY2000 - PY2103		AND
		Mind and World	20
		Moral and Political Controversies	20
		Reasoning	20
		The Enlightenment	20
		Intermediate Logic	20
		Foundations of Western Philosophy	20
		Meaning and Knowing	20
		Moral and Aesthetic Value	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits "First and Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements: 20 credits: PY1012; A minimum of 40 credits: PY2000-PY2103; A minimum of 20 further credits: PY1001-PY1199, PY2000-PY2103; Please balance your choices across the academic year. " Automatic Entry to Honours requires: Grades of at least 11 in each module for 40 credits from PY2001 - PY2103 gained at first sitting; OR Grades of at least 10 in each module for 40 credits from PY2001 - PY2103 with a mean of 12 or above across these modules, at first sitting.

MA (Joint Honours) Statistics element: Second year STASTAJJ2A_1718
		Code	Module name	Credits
	^		Linear Mathematics	15	AND
	^		Multivariate Calculus	15	AND
	^		Combinatorics and Probability	15	AND
	^		Statistical Inference	15
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Automatic entry to Honours requires pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

Further details on Entry to Honours - MA

Grades of at least 11 in each module for 40 credits from PY2001 - PY2103 gained at first sitting OR Grades of at least 10 in each module for 40 credits from PY2001 - PY2103 with a mean of 12 or above across these modules, at first sitting.

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.

MA Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year PHIPHIJJ3A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200		AND
		Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science	30
		Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859
	PY4601	Paradoxes	30
	PY4603	Philosophy of Film	30
	PY4604	Political Philosophy	30
		Contemporary Epistemology	30
	PY4607	Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz	30
		Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions	30
	PY4609	Philosophical Methodology	30
		Philosophy of Perception	30
	PY4611	Classical Philosophy	30
		Advanced Logic	30
	PY4614	Philosophy of Mind	30
	PY4615	Metaphysics	30
	PY4616	Freedom and Action	30
	PY4617	The Philosophy of Saul Kripke	30
	PY4618	Animals, Minds and Language	30
	PY4619	Social Philosophy	30
	PY4620	Virtue and Vice	30
	PY4621	British Philosophy 1650 - 1800	30
		Kant's Critical Philosophy	30
	PY4624	Philosophy of Art	30
		Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice	30
	PY4626	Life and Death	30
		Contemporary Philosophy of Language	30
	PY4633	Philosophy of Mathematics	30
	PY4634	Philosophy of Logic	30
		Contemporary Moral Theory	30
	PY4637	Asian Philosophies	30
		Philosophy of Religion	30
	PY4639	Philosophy of Creativity	30
		Mediaeval Philosophy	30
	PY4641	Nineteenth-century Ethics and Philosophy	30
	PY4642	Trust, Knowledge and Society	30
	PY4643	Philosophy of Law	30
	PY4644	Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom	30
	PY4645	Philosophy and Literature	30
	PY4646	Reasons for Action and Belief	30
	PY4647	Humans, Animals, and Nature	30
	PY4648	Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy	30
		Core Works in Continental Philosophy	30
	PY4650	Philosophy, Feminism and Gender	30
	PY4651	Effective Altruism	30
	PY4652	The Philosophy of Human Rights	30
		Toleration in the Early Modern Period	30
	PY4654	Responsibility, Praise, and Blame	30
		Advanced Metaethics	30
		The Philosophy of Love and Sex	30
	PY4657	Philosophy of Economics	30
	CL4500	Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics	30
	CL4502	Ethics and Lifestyles: Philosophy and Ways of Living in Antiquity	30
	ID4801	Human Rights, Poverty and Security	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year "Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:30-60 credits: PY3100, PY3200; 30-60 credits: PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - Fourth Year Only), CL4500-CL4520, ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 and ID4002 - Fourth Year Only); Up to 30 of these credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level, provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School. In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level. "

MA (Joint Honours) Statistics element: Third year STASTAJJ3A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 45 credits from Module List: MT3501, MT3507 - MT3508		AND
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 20 credits from Module List: MT4531, MT4606, MT5831, MT5701		AND
		Bayesian Inference	15
		Statistical Inference	15
		Advanced Bayesian Inference	20
		Advanced Statistical Inference	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 20 credits from Module List: MT4607, MT5753		AND
	MT4607	Generalised Linear Models and Data Analysis	15
		Statistical Modelling	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: MT3000 - MT4999 (excluding MT4599, MT4794 - MT4797)
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
		Numerical Analysis	15
		Mathematical Programming	15
	MT3852	Automata, Languages and Complexity	15
		Groups	15
		Real and Abstract Analysis	15
		Linear and Nonlinear Waves	15
	MT4111	Symbolic Computation	15
		Computing in Mathematics	15
		Computing in Statistics	15
		Topics in the History of Mathematics	15
	MT4507	Classical Mechanics	15
		Dynamical Systems	15
		Fluid Dynamics	15
		Solar Theory	15
	MT4511	Asymptotic Methods	15
		Fractal Geometry	15
	MT4514	Graph Theory	15
	MT4515	Functional Analysis	15
		Finite Mathematics	15
		Number Theory	15
		Topology	15
	MT4527	Time Series Analysis	15
		Markov Chains and Processes	15
		Population Genetics	15
		Bayesian Inference	15
	MT4536	Stochastic and Spatial Processes	15
		Spatial Processes	15
		Quantitative Risk Management	15
		Financial Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Biology 1	15
	MT4553	Theory of Electric and Magnetic Fields	15
		Statistical Inference	15
	MT4607	Generalised Linear Models and Data Analysis	15
	MT4608	Sampling Theory	15
	MT4609	Multivariate Analysis	15
	MT4613	Statistical Research in Practice	15
		Design of Experiments	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year "Third and Fourth Years: 45 credits: MT3501, MT3507, MT3508; Between 15 and 20 credits: MT4531, MT4606, MT5831, MT5701; Between 15 and 20 credits: MT4607, MT5753; 15 Credits: MT4599 or other approved joint Honours project (Fourth Year Only); Further Credits: MT3000 - MT4999 to a total of 120 credits over 3rd and 4th years;"

MA Philosophy (Joint Honours): Fourth year PHIPHIJJ4A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Remaining credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200			AND
	Remaining credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859			AND
	Remaining credits from Module List: PY4698. PY4699, PY4794			AND
	Remaining credits from Module List: PY4701, ID4002
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year "Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:30-60 credits: PY3100, PY3200; 30-60 credits: PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - Fourth Year Only), CL4500-CL4520, ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 and ID4002 - Fourth Year Only); Up to 30 of these credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level, provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School. In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level. "

MA (Joint Honours) Statistics element: Fourth year STASTAJJ4A_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 15 and 30 credits from Module List: MT4599, MT4796		AND
		Project in Mathematics / Statistics	15
		Joint Project (30cr)	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 45 credits from Module List: MT3501, MT3507 - MT3508		AND
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 20 credits from Module List: MT4531, MT4606, MT5831, MT5701		AND
		Bayesian Inference	15
		Statistical Inference	15
		Advanced Bayesian Inference	20
		Advanced Statistical Inference	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 20 credits from Module List: MT4607, MT5753		AND
	MT4607	Generalised Linear Models and Data Analysis	15
		Statistical Modelling	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: MT3000 - MT4999 (excluding MT4599, MT4794 - MT4797)
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
		Numerical Analysis	15
		Mathematical Programming	15
	MT3852	Automata, Languages and Complexity	15
		Groups	15
		Real and Abstract Analysis	15
		Linear and Nonlinear Waves	15
	MT4111	Symbolic Computation	15
		Computing in Mathematics	15
		Computing in Statistics	15
		Topics in the History of Mathematics	15
	MT4507	Classical Mechanics	15
		Dynamical Systems	15
		Fluid Dynamics	15
		Solar Theory	15
	MT4511	Asymptotic Methods	15
		Fractal Geometry	15
	MT4514	Graph Theory	15
	MT4515	Functional Analysis	15
		Finite Mathematics	15
		Number Theory	15
		Topology	15
	MT4527	Time Series Analysis	15
		Markov Chains and Processes	15
		Population Genetics	15
		Bayesian Inference	15
	MT4536	Stochastic and Spatial Processes	15
		Spatial Processes	15
		Quantitative Risk Management	15
		Financial Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Biology 1	15
	MT4553	Theory of Electric and Magnetic Fields	15
		Statistical Inference	15
	MT4607	Generalised Linear Models and Data Analysis	15
	MT4608	Sampling Theory	15
	MT4609	Multivariate Analysis	15
	MT4613	Statistical Research in Practice	15
		Design of Experiments	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year "Third and Fourth Years: 45 credits: MT3501, MT3507, MT3508; Between 15 and 20 credits: MT4531, MT4606, MT5831, MT5701; Between 15 and 20 credits: MT4607, MT5753; 15 Credits: MT4599 or other approved joint Honours project (Fourth Year Only); Further Credits: MT3000 - MT4999 to a total of 120 credits over 3rd and 4th years;"

Royal Statistical Society (RSS) accreditation

The School has had accreditation since 2003 from the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) for its undergraduate degree programmes in statistics and also for those in mathematics that have appropriate statistical content. For more, see:

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91果冻视频 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).

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