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Bachelor of Science (Honours) Philosophy and Physics


Important entry information

Entry to first year is the standard entry route, and the route which can provide the broadest education, and which can give most flexibility in final choice of degree. Students who are aiming for a degree in Physics or Astrophysics and who enter with good Advanced Highers or A-levels or equivalent in Physics and Mathematics may apply for an accelerated entry route to the programme, which can reduce the length of the BSc Honours programme to three years and the MPhys programme to four years. The special Physics and Astronomy (Gateway) first year allows subsequent progression to the second year of all the single-honours degree programmes in the School, and the joint degrees with the School of Mathematics.

Programme Requirements

BSc (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Reasoning 20 AND
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) Physics (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Physics 1A 20 AND
Physics 1B 20 AND
Mathematics 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Students without prerequisite for MT1002 will take MT1001 in Semester 1.

BSc (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* 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
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 *
BSc (Hons) Physics (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Physics 2A 30 AND
^ Physics 2B 30 AND
~ Linear Mathematics 15 AND
~ Multivariate Calculus 15 AND
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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^
  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ~

Automatic entry to Honours

Students who attain an average of grade 11.0 or above at the first sitting in each of the requisite 2000-level module combinations and who meet all other programme requirements will be given automatic offers of entry into Honours programmes.
Students permitted automatic entry to Honours will only be permitted to trail one module to a maximum of 30 subhonours credits into Honours.

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) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30 AND
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
PY4658 Timely Topics in Political Philosophy 30
PY4659 Why Does The World Exist? 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) Physics (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
Electromagnetism 15 AND
Quantum Mechanics 1 10 AND
Quantum Mechanics 2 10 AND
Computational Physics 10 AND
Mathematics for Physicists 15

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


BSc (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code 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.

BSc (Hons) Physics (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
Thermal and Statistical Physics 15 AND
Nuclear and Particle Physics with Advanced Skills 15 AND
( Physics Project (BSc) 30 OR
View list 30 credits from Module List: AS3000 - AS4999, PH3000 - PH4109, ID4001 )
Computational Astrophysics 15
Extragalactic Astronomy 15
The Physics of Nebulae and Stars 1 15
The Physics of Nebulae and Stars 2 15
Gravitational and Accretion Physics 15
Observational Astrophysics 15
Astrophysics Project (BSc) 30
Electromagnetism 15
Thermal and Statistical Physics 15
Transferable Skills for Physicists 15
Quantum Mechanics 1 10
Quantum Mechanics 2 10
Electronics 15
Computational Physics 10
Mathematics for Physicists 15
Mathematics for Chemistry / Physics 20
Physics Laboratory 1 15
Signals and Information 15
Optoelectronics and Nonlinear Optics 15
Advanced Quantum Mechanics 15
Fluids 15
Special Relativity and Fields 15
Laser Physics 1 15
Principles of Optics 15
Physics of Music 15
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics 15
Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics 15
Nuclear and Particle Physics with Advanced Skills 15
Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics 15
Concepts in Atomic Physics and Magnetic Resonance 15
Studies in Physics and Chemistry 5
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics 15
PH4045 Data Processing for biomedical imaging and sensing 15
Physics Laboratory 2 15
Communication and Teaching in Science 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

PH4111 is chosen unless one of CS4098, CS4796, PY4699 is taken.

Further credits may be taken from AS3000 - AS4999, PH3000 - PH4109, ID4001 or modules in other subjects with the approval of the Adviser of Studies.

Accreditation

All the BSc, MSci, and MPhys single and joint Honours degrees in which Physics or Astrophysics is in the title are accredited by the UK Institute of Physics.

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 91¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).