Programme requirements (2018/2019) | Master of Arts (Honours) Philosophy and Social Anthropology

Master of Arts (Honours) Philosophy and Social Anthropology

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year PHIPHIJJ1A_1819
	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 (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): First year SANSANJJ1_1819
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Ways of Thinking	20	AND
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year It is recommended to select SA1001 in addition to SA1002.

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year PHIPHIJJ2A_1819
	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 (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Second year SANSANJJ2_1819
		Code	Module name	Credits
	*		The Foundations of Social Anthropology	20	AND
	*		Ethnographic Encounters	20	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 at grade 11 or better required in modules marked * 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.

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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 (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year PHIPHIJJ3A_1819
	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
	PY4606	Contemporary Epistemology	30
		Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz	30
	PY4608	Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions	30
	PY4609	Philosophical Methodology	30
	PY4610	Philosophy of Perception	30
		Classical Philosophy	30
	PY4612	Advanced Logic	30
		Philosophy of Mind	30
	PY4615	Metaphysics	30
	PY4616	Freedom and Action	30
	PY4617	The Philosophy of Saul Kripke	30
		Animals, Minds and Language	30
	PY4619	Social Philosophy	30
	PY4620	Virtue and Vice	30
	PY4621	British Philosophy 1650 - 1800	30
	PY4622	Kant's Critical Philosophy	30
		Philosophy of Art	30
	PY4625	Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice	30
	PY4626	Life and Death	30
	PY4632	Contemporary Philosophy of Language	30
	PY4633	Philosophy of Mathematics	30
		Philosophy of Logic	30
	PY4635	Contemporary Moral Theory	30
	PY4637	Asian Philosophies	30
	PY4638	Philosophy of Religion	30
		Philosophy of Creativity	30
	PY4640	Medieval Philosophy	30
	PY4641	Nineteenth-century Ethics and Philosophy	30
	PY4642	Trust, Knowledge and Society	30
		Philosophy of Law	30
		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
		Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy	30
	PY4649	Core Works in Continental Philosophy	30
		Philosophy, Feminism and Gender	30
	PY4651	Effective Altruism	30
		The Philosophy of Human Rights	30
	PY4653	Toleration in the Early Modern Period	30
	PY4654	Responsibility, Praise, and Blame	30
	PY4655	Advanced Metaethics	30
	PY4656	The Philosophy of Love and Sex	30
		Philosophy of Economics	30
		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 (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); Across the two Honours years 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. A minimum of 90 PY credits must be achieved across the two Honours years. In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.

MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Third year SANSANJJ3_1819
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3999 (excluding SA3901 - SA3903)		AND
	SA3028	Anthropology of Art	10
	SA3030	Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts	30
	SA3031	Anthropological Study of Language and Culture	30
		Regional Ethnography 1	30
		Cold War Ethnography	30
		The Anthropology of Art	30
	SA3049	Perception, Imagination and Communication	30
	SA3050	Interpreting Social and Cultural Phenomena	30
	SA3053	Individuality, Community and Morality	30
		Anthropology and History	30
	SA3056	Melanesian Anthropology	30
		Sex and Gender	30
		Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations	30
		Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology	30
	SA3061	Reading Ethnography	30
	SA3062	Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction	30
	SA3063	Anthropology of Religion	30
		The Anthropology of Migration	30
	SA3065	Anthropology of Economic Life	30
		Methods in Social Anthropology	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	30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA3901 - SA3903, SA4794 - SA4797)
	SA3028	Anthropology of Art	10
	SA3030	Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts	30
	SA3031	Anthropological Study of Language and Culture	30
		Regional Ethnography 1	30
		Cold War Ethnography	30
		The Anthropology of Art	30
	SA3049	Perception, Imagination and Communication	30
	SA3050	Interpreting Social and Cultural Phenomena	30
	SA3053	Individuality, Community and Morality	30
		Anthropology and History	30
	SA3056	Melanesian Anthropology	30
		Sex and Gender	30
		Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations	30
		Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology	30
	SA3061	Reading Ethnography	30
	SA3062	Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction	30
	SA3063	Anthropology of Religion	30
		The Anthropology of Migration	30
	SA3065	Anthropology of Economic Life	30
		Methods in Social Anthropology	30
	SA4005	The West Indies and the Black Atlantic	30
	SA4058	Visual Anthropology	30
		Living with Material Culture	30
	SA4060	Anthropology of Religion and Politics	30
		Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health	30
		Anthropology of Justice	30
	SA4063	Anthropology of Catastrophe	30
	SA4500	Independent Project 1	30
	SA4501	Independent Project 2	30
	SA4821	Amerindian Language and Culture	30
	SA4850	Andes	30
	SA4855	Anthropology, Literature and Writing	30
	SA4856	Anthropology, Christianity and Modernity	30
		West Africa	30
	SA4860	Anthropology of Amazonia	30
	SA4861	Ethnography of Fieldwork	30
	SA4862	Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness	30
	SA4863	Youth in Africa	30
		Melanesian Anthropology	30
	SA4865	Ethnohistories of the Americas	30
	SA4866	Anthropology and Eurasia	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 SA3506 must be taken if the student wishes to take SA4099, SA4794 or SA4796 in Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) (Joint Honours): Fourth year PHIPHIJJ4A_1819
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	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	Credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859		AND
	PY4601	Paradoxes	30
	PY4603	Philosophy of Film	30
	PY4604	Political Philosophy	30
	PY4606	Contemporary Epistemology	30
		Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz	30
	PY4608	Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions	30
	PY4609	Philosophical Methodology	30
	PY4610	Philosophy of Perception	30
		Classical Philosophy	30
	PY4612	Advanced Logic	30
		Philosophy of Mind	30
	PY4615	Metaphysics	30
	PY4616	Freedom and Action	30
	PY4617	The Philosophy of Saul Kripke	30
		Animals, Minds and Language	30
	PY4619	Social Philosophy	30
	PY4620	Virtue and Vice	30
	PY4621	British Philosophy 1650 - 1800	30
	PY4622	Kant's Critical Philosophy	30
		Philosophy of Art	30
	PY4625	Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice	30
	PY4626	Life and Death	30
	PY4632	Contemporary Philosophy of Language	30
	PY4633	Philosophy of Mathematics	30
		Philosophy of Logic	30
	PY4635	Contemporary Moral Theory	30
	PY4637	Asian Philosophies	30
	PY4638	Philosophy of Religion	30
		Philosophy of Creativity	30
	PY4640	Medieval Philosophy	30
	PY4641	Nineteenth-century Ethics and Philosophy	30
	PY4642	Trust, Knowledge and Society	30
		Philosophy of Law	30
		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
		Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy	30
	PY4649	Core Works in Continental Philosophy	30
		Philosophy, Feminism and Gender	30
	PY4651	Effective Altruism	30
		The Philosophy of Human Rights	30
	PY4653	Toleration in the Early Modern Period	30
	PY4654	Responsibility, Praise, and Blame	30
	PY4655	Advanced Metaethics	30
	PY4656	The Philosophy of Love and Sex	30
		Philosophy of Economics	30
		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
	Hide list View list	Credits from Module List: PY4698. PY4699, PY4794		AND
		Dissertation (Whole Year)	30
		Dissertation in Philosophy	30
		Joint Dissertation (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	Credits from Module List: PY4701, ID4002
		Philosophy and Pedagogy	15
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	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 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); Across the two Honours years 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. A minimum of 90 PY credits must be achieved across the two Honours years. In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.

MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Fourth year SANSANJJ4_1819
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4299, SA4400 - SA4899, (SA4301 and ID4002)
	SA4005	The West Indies and the Black Atlantic	30
	SA4058	Visual Anthropology	30
		Living with Material Culture	30
	SA4060	Anthropology of Religion and Politics	30
		Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health	30
		Anthropology of Justice	30
	SA4063	Anthropology of Catastrophe	30
		Library-based Dissertation	30
		Primary Research-based Dissertation	30
	SA4500	Independent Project 1	30
	SA4501	Independent Project 2	30
	SA4794	Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
	SA4795	Joint Dissertation (60cr)	60
	SA4796	Joint Project (30cr)	30
	SA4797	Joint Project (60cr)	60
	SA4821	Amerindian Language and Culture	30
	SA4850	Andes	30
	SA4855	Anthropology, Literature and Writing	30
	SA4856	Anthropology, Christianity and Modernity	30
		West Africa	30
	SA4860	Anthropology of Amazonia	30
	SA4861	Ethnography of Fieldwork	30
	SA4862	Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness	30
	SA4863	Youth in Africa	30
		Melanesian Anthropology	30
	SA4865	Ethnohistories of the Americas	30
	SA4866	Anthropology and Eurasia	30
	SA4301	Anthropology in the Community	15
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	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 If selected SA4301 must be taken with ID4002.

Study abroad

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