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Master of Arts (Honours) Management and Philosophy


MA (Hons) Management (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Organisations and Society 20 AND
Organisations and Analysis 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Reasoning 20 AND
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) Management (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Management and Society 20 AND
^ Management and Analysis 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 ^
MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
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
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) Management (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
Organisation Studies 20 AND
View list 40 credits from Module List: MN3101 - MN3199, MN3203 - MN4299 (except MN4245), MN4311
Corporate Finance and Control 20
Financial Markets and Investments 20
International Business 20
MN3128 Innovation and Entrepreneurship 20
MN3901 Management Learning 30
Contemporary Issues in Management 20
International Marketing 20
Human Resource Management 20
Management of Change 20
International Banking 20
MN4227 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting 20
Sociology of Finance 20
Sustainable Development and Management 20
Knowledge Work: Practice and Context 20
Advertising and Marketing Communications 20
MN4243 Philanthropy and Philanthropreneurs: The Business Of Doing Good 20
Behavioural Decision Making 20
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development 20
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Contexts, Contributions, and Challenges 20
Equality and Diversity in Organisations 20
Dynamic Strategic Management 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

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
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
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) Management (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
Contemporary Issues in Management 20 AND
View list 40 credits from Module List: MN3101 - MN3199, MN3203 - MN4299, MN4310 - MN4311
Corporate Finance and Control 20
Organisation Studies 20
Financial Markets and Investments 20
International Business 20
MN3128 Innovation and Entrepreneurship 20
MN3901 Management Learning 30
Contemporary Issues in Management 20
International Marketing 20
Human Resource Management 20
Management of Change 20
International Banking 20
MN4227 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting 20
Sociology of Finance 20
Sustainable Development and Management 20
Knowledge Work: Practice and Context 20
Advertising and Marketing Communications 20
MN4243 Philanthropy and Philanthropreneurs: The Business Of Doing Good 20
Behavioural Decision Making 20
Leadership Development 20
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development 20
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Contexts, Contributions, and Challenges 20
Equality and Diversity in Organisations 20
Scenario Thinking 20
Dynamic Strategic Management 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

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

MA (Hons) (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
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
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
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
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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).