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Master of Arts (Honours) Film Studies and Philosophy

MA (Hons) Film Studies (Joint Honours): First year FLSFLSJJ1_2122
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Key Concepts in Film Studies	20	AND
		Global Film History and Historiography	20	AND
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year PHIPHIJJ1A_2122
	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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Second year FLSFLSJJ2_2122
		Code	Module name	Credits
	^		Film Theory	20	AND
	^		Screen Cultures today: media and methods	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 and have an average grade 11 or better 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.

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year PHIPHIJJ2A_2122
	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.

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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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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Third year FLSFLSJJ3_2122
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: FM4100 - FM4899
	FM4102	Cinema and Politics	30
	FM4106	War and Cinema	30
	FM4107	Cinema and Nation	30
	FM4108	Cinema and Media in the Digital Age	30
	FM4109	Film and the Archive	30
	FM4110	Images and Impact: The Uses of Film	30
		Ecocinema: The Nature of Film	30
		Film Genres	30
	FM4115	Sensory Cinema	30
	FM4116	Stars	30
	FM4117	Modernity and the Moving Image	30
	FM4118	Film and Fashion	30
		Horror on screen	30
		Silent Cinema	30
	FM4121	Screen Comedy	30
	FM4122	Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media	30
	FM4123	Artists' Film and Video	30
		Race and Representation	30
	FM4125	Global Film Colour	30
	FM4126	Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship	30
	FM4127	Animation	30
		Television Form and Culture	30
	FM4202	The Cinema in Eastern Europe	30
		Asian Cinemas	30
	FM4205	Cinema in Scotland	30
	FM4206	Cinemas of India	30
	FM4207	British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders	30
	FM4208	City in Asian Cinema	30
	FM4303	Documentary Cinema	30
		Feminist Film Studies	30
	FM4308	Film Sound	30
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		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
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year PHIPHIJJ3A_2122
	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
		Paradoxes	30
	PY4606	Contemporary Epistemology	30
		Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz	30
	PY4608	Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions	30
		Philosophical Methodology	30
	PY4610	Philosophy of Perception	30
		Classical Philosophy	30
		Advanced Logic	30
	PY4614	Philosophy of Mind	30
	PY4615	Metaphysics	30
		Freedom and Action	30
	PY4618	Animals, Minds and Language	30
	PY4622	Kant's Critical Philosophy	30
		Philosophy of Art	30
		Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice	30
	PY4626	Life and Death	30
	PY4632	Contemporary Philosophy of Language	30
	PY4634	Philosophy of Logic	30
	PY4635	Contemporary Moral Theory	30
	PY4638	Philosophy of Religion	30
	PY4639	Philosophy of Creativity	30
	PY4640	Medieval Philosophy	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
	PY4653	Toleration in the Early Modern Period	30
	PY4654	Responsibility, Praise, and Blame	30
		Advanced Metaethics	30
	PY4656	The Philosophy of Love and Sex	30
		Philosophy of Economics	30
	PY4658	Timely Topics in Political Philosophy	30
	PY4659	Why Does The World Exist?	30
		Work, Entitlement, and Welfare	30
	PY4661	The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis	30
		Critical Theory	30
	PY4663	Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy	30
		Ethics of Conversation	30
		First Contact	30
	CL4500	Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics	30
	CL4504	Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world	30
		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, including VP modules, 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) Film Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year FLSFLSJJ4_2122
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: FM4000 - FM4899
		Film Studies Dissertation	30
	FM4102	Cinema and Politics	30
	FM4106	War and Cinema	30
	FM4107	Cinema and Nation	30
	FM4108	Cinema and Media in the Digital Age	30
	FM4109	Film and the Archive	30
	FM4110	Images and Impact: The Uses of Film	30
		Ecocinema: The Nature of Film	30
		Film Genres	30
	FM4115	Sensory Cinema	30
	FM4116	Stars	30
	FM4117	Modernity and the Moving Image	30
	FM4118	Film and Fashion	30
		Horror on screen	30
		Silent Cinema	30
	FM4121	Screen Comedy	30
	FM4122	Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media	30
	FM4123	Artists' Film and Video	30
		Race and Representation	30
	FM4125	Global Film Colour	30
	FM4126	Creativity in screen cultures: collaboration, labour and scholarship	30
	FM4127	Animation	30
		Television Form and Culture	30
	FM4202	The Cinema in Eastern Europe	30
		Asian Cinemas	30
	FM4205	Cinema in Scotland	30
	FM4206	Cinemas of India	30
	FM4207	British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders	30
	FM4208	City in Asian Cinema	30
	FM4303	Documentary Cinema	30
		Feminist Film Studies	30
	FM4308	Film Sound	30
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		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
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.

MA (Hons) (Joint Honours): Fourth year PHIPHIJJ4A_2122
	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
		Paradoxes	30
	PY4606	Contemporary Epistemology	30
		Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz	30
	PY4608	Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions	30
		Philosophical Methodology	30
	PY4610	Philosophy of Perception	30
		Classical Philosophy	30
		Advanced Logic	30
	PY4614	Philosophy of Mind	30
	PY4615	Metaphysics	30
		Freedom and Action	30
	PY4618	Animals, Minds and Language	30
	PY4622	Kant's Critical Philosophy	30
		Philosophy of Art	30
		Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice	30
	PY4626	Life and Death	30
	PY4632	Contemporary Philosophy of Language	30
	PY4634	Philosophy of Logic	30
	PY4635	Contemporary Moral Theory	30
	PY4638	Philosophy of Religion	30
	PY4639	Philosophy of Creativity	30
	PY4640	Medieval Philosophy	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
	PY4653	Toleration in the Early Modern Period	30
	PY4654	Responsibility, Praise, and Blame	30
		Advanced Metaethics	30
	PY4656	The Philosophy of Love and Sex	30
		Philosophy of Economics	30
	PY4658	Timely Topics in Political Philosophy	30
	PY4659	Why Does The World Exist?	30
		Work, Entitlement, and Welfare	30
	PY4661	The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis	30
		Critical Theory	30
	PY4663	Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy	30
		Ethics of Conversation	30
		First Contact	30
	CL4500	Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics	30
	CL4504	Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world	30
		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
	PY4701	Philosophy and Pedagogy	15
	ID4002	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, including VP modules, 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.

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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