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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Philosophy


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: EN1003, EN1004, CO1001, CO1002 AND
Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 20
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 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

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) English (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20 AND
^ Drama: Reading and Performance 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 7 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 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340, ME3502 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Reading Old English 30
Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Diversifying Old English Literature 30
The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 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: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
Shakespeare and Race 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 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: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4377 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 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 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398 - EN4399, EN4794 - EN4797)
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Reading Old English 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
Shakespeare and Race 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Contemporary British and Irish Theatre 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
EN3215 Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
EN3219 Reading Popular Music 30
Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Diversifying Old English Literature 30
The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4377 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
20th-Century and Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
EN4417 Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Contemporary World Literatures 30
Celtic Modernisms 30
Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
EN4434 Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 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

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

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

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
Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 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
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
Philosophy of Mind 30
Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4622 Kant's Critical Philosophy 30
PY4624 Philosophy of Art 30
PY4625 Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice 30
PY4626 Life and Death 30
Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
Philosophy of Religion 30
Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4640 Medieval Philosophy 30
Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy and Literature 30
Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4647 Humans, Animals, and Nature 30
PY4648 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
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
PY4657 Philosophy of Economics 30
PY4658 Timely Topics in Political Philosophy 30
Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis 30
PY4662 Critical Theory 30
PY4663 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy 30
PY4664 Ethics of Conversation 30
PY4665 First Contact 30
Bioethics 30
Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key texts in nineteenth-century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 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) English (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340, ME3502 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Reading Old English 30
Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Diversifying Old English Literature 30
The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 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: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
Shakespeare and Race 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 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: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4377 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 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 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398) AND
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Reading Old English 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
Shakespeare and Race 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Contemporary British and Irish Theatre 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
EN3215 Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
EN3219 Reading Popular Music 30
EN3904 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Diversifying Old English Literature 30
The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4377 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
Dissertation in English 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
20th-Century and Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
EN4417 Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Contemporary World Literatures 30
Celtic Modernisms 30
Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
EN4434 Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 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 Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN4398, ID4002 )
Short Dissertation 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

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

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
Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 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
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
Philosophy of Mind 30
Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4622 Kant's Critical Philosophy 30
PY4624 Philosophy of Art 30
PY4625 Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice 30
PY4626 Life and Death 30
Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
Philosophy of Religion 30
Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4640 Medieval Philosophy 30
Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy and Literature 30
Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4647 Humans, Animals, and Nature 30
PY4648 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
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
PY4657 Philosophy of Economics 30
PY4658 Timely Topics in Political Philosophy 30
Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis 30
PY4662 Critical Theory 30
PY4663 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy 30
PY4664 Ethics of Conversation 30
PY4665 First Contact 30
Bioethics 30
Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key texts in nineteenth-century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 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
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, 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¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).