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Bachelor of Science (Honours) Biology and Philosophy

BSc (Hons) Biology and Philosophy (Biology Element): First year BIOPHIJJ1_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Biology 1	20	AND
		Biology 2	20	AND
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

BSc Philosophy joint: First year PHIPHIJJ1S_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Reasoning	20	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: PY1000 - PY1999		AND
		Mind and World	20
		Moral and Political Controversies	20
		Reasoning	20
		The Enlightenment	20
		Ethical Issues (by Distance Learning)	20
		Reasoning and Knowledge (by Distance Learning)	20
		Morality and Human Nature	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 (BSc Joint Honours) Programme Requirements: 20 credits: PY1012; 20 credits: PY2010 and/or PY2012; 20 further credits: 1000- or 2000-Level PY modules; Please balance your choices across the academic year.

BSc (Hons) Biology and Philosophy (Biology Element): Second year BIOPHIJJ2_1718
		Code	Module name	Credits
	^	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: BL2300 - BL2310
			Research Methods in Biology	15
			Cell Biology	15
			Molecular Biology	15
			Evolutionary Biology	15
			Invertebrate Zoology	15
			Cell Systems	15
			Biochemistry	15
			Ecology	15
			Vertebrate Zoology	15
			Applied Molecular Biology	15
			Comparative Physiology	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 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 ^

BSc Philosophy joint: Second year PHIPHIJJ2S_1718
		Code	Module name	Credits
	*	Hide list View list	Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: PY2010, PY2012		AND
			Intermediate Logic	20
			Meaning and Knowing	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 40 credits from Module List: PY1000 - PY1999, PY2000 - PY2999		AND
			Mind and World	20
			Moral and Political Controversies	20
			Reasoning	20
			The Enlightenment	20
			Ethical Issues (by Distance Learning)	20
			Reasoning and Knowledge (by Distance Learning)	20
			Morality and Human Nature	20
			Intermediate Logic	20
			Foundations of Western Philosophy	20
			Meaning and Knowing	20
			Moral and Aesthetic Value	20
			Mind and Reality (by Distance Learning)	20
			Modern Philosophy: from Descartes to Kant (by Distance Learning)	20
		PY2902	Knowledge, Mind and Reality	20
			Matters of Life and Death	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 (BSc Joint Honours) Programme Requirements: 20 credits: PY1012; 20 credits: PY2010 and/or PY2012; 20 further credits: 1000- or 2000-Level PY modules; Please balance your choices across the academic year. Automatic entry to Honours requires pass at grade 11 or better in at least 1 of the modules marked *

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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BSc 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 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

BSc (Hons) Biology and Philosophy (Biology Element): Third year BIOPHIJJ3_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists	10		AND
(		Field Course	10		OR
		Advanced Critical Analysis Reading Party	10		OR
		Basic Biochemistry Laboratory	10	)	AND
	Hide list View list	40 credits from Module List: BL3301 - BL3319, BL3323, PN3312 - PN3313
		Protein Structure and Function	20
		Gene Regulation	20
		Membranes and Cell Communication	20
		Evolution	20
		Aquatic Ecology	20
		Ecosystems and Conservation	20
		Bioenergetics	20
		Infection and Disease	20
		Developmental Biology	20
		Animal Plant Interactions	20
		Biology of Marine Organisms	20
		Animal Behaviour: A Quantitative Approach	20
		Terrestrial Zoology	20
		Pharmacology	20
		Neuroscience	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
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year

" BSc Philosophy joint: Third year PHIPHIJJ3S_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science	30	AND
	Hide list View list	At least 30 credits from Module List: PY3200, PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859
		Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy	30
	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 (BSc Joint Honours) Programme Requirements: 30 credits: PY3100 60 - 90* credits - PY3200, PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - in Fourth Year only), CL4500 - CL4520), ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 with ID4002 - in Fourth Year only) Students will take either 30 credits or 60 credits of 4000-level, depending on 3000-level modules taken. *Up to 30 PY Honours credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level (dip-across or dip-down), provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School. In total over both subjects, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.

BSc (Hons) Biology and Philosophy (Biology Element): Fourth year BIOPHIJJ4_1718
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: BL4200 - BL4201, PY4698 - PY4699		AND
		Literature-based Research Project	30
		Experimental Research Project	60
		Dissertation (Whole Year)	30
		Dissertation in 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 30 and 60 credits from Module List: BL4210 - BL4301, ID4001, PN4230 - PN4231, PN4234 - PN4235
		Practical Skills for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry	15
		Antimicrobials - Mode of Action and Resistance	15
		How Enzymes Work	15
		Molecular Virology	15
		Bacterial Virulence Factors	15
		Structure-based Drug Discovery	15
	BL4220	Geomicrobiology - from Gold Mines to Global Warming, how Microbes influence our Planet	15
		Metabolic and Clinical Biochemistry	15
		Molecular and cell biology of eukaryotic DNA replication	15
		Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking	15
	BL4225	Advanced Microscopy and Image Analysis - Seeing is Believing	15
	BL4226	Chromatin and Genome Stability	15
	BL4230	Neurodegeneration and Aging	15
	BL4231	Neuromodulation	15
		Neuroethology	15
	BL4234	Synaptic Transmission	15
	BL4235	Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology	15
	BL4248	Human Physiology of Diving	15
		Scientific Diving	15
		Tropical Marine Biology	15
		Fisheries Research	15
		Marine and Environmental Biotechnology	15
		Marine Bioacoustics	15
		Foraging in Marine Mammals	15
		Marine Mammals and Man	15
		Biological Oceanography	15
		Environmental Drivers of Marine Habitats	15
		The Question of Culture in Cetaceans	15
		Conservation Research Methods	15
		Science Communication of Biodiversity and Conservation	15
		Plant-environment Interactions	15
	BL4273	Bioinformatics for Biologists	15
		Evolutionary Developmental Biology	15
		Evolution in Action	15
		Biology of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Vertebrates	15
		Evolution and Human Behaviour	15
		Animal Communication and Cognition	15
		Biology and Behaviour of Social Insects	15
	BL4284	Breeding Systems and Sexual Conflict	15
		Complex Systems in Animal Behaviour	15
		Advanced Topics in Evolution	15
	BL4288	Major Review Paper in Evolutionary Biology	15
	BL4289	Animal Cognition	15
		Polar Ecology: A field course in Antarctica	15
		Communication and Teaching in Science	15
		Neurodegeneration and Aging	15
		Neuromodulation	15
		Synaptic Transmission	15
		Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology	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

" BSc Philosophy joint: Fourth year

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Module name

Credits

Remaining credits from Module List: PY3200, PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859, PY4698, - PY4699, PY4794, (PY4701 and ID4002)

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

"Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (BSc Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

30 credits: PY3100
60 - 90* credits - PY3200, PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - in Fourth Year only), CL4500 - CL4520), ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 with ID4002 - in Fourth Year only)

Students will take either 30 credits or 60 credits of 4000-level, depending on 3000-level modules taken.

*Up to 30 PY Honours credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level (dip-across or dip-down), provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School.

In total over both subjects, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.

Other information

With the permission of the Director of Teaching up to 20 credits per programme may be taken in a module outwith the specified modules in all School of Biology Programmes. Where there are choices between modules in the programmes, some options may have pre-requisites therefore the 1000- and 2000-level modules taken may limit choices. The availability of 4000-level modules in the School of Biology will be dependent on sufficient student demand.

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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