Programme requirements (2022/2023) | Master of Arts (Honours) German and Philosophy

Master of Arts (Honours) German and Philosophy

MA (Hons) German (Joint Honours): First Year GRNGRNJJ1_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
((		First Level German A 1	20		AND
		First Level German A 2	20	)	OR
(		First Level German B 1	20		AND
		First Level German B 2	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_2223
	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) German (Joint Honours): Second Year GRNGRNJJ2_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
((		Second Level Advanced German Language 1	10		AND
		Second Level Advanced German Language 2	10	)	OR
(		Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1	10		AND
		Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2	10	))	AND
	Hide list View list	At least 20 credits from Module List: GM2011 - GM2014			AND
		The Age of Goethe	10
		Unification to the First World War	10
		Medieval German Language and Literature	10
		Weimar Republic: 1918-1933	10
	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 Students are strongly advised to take at least 60 credits in German. Automatic entry to Honours requires An average grade of 7 in all German modules taken

MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year PHIPHIJJ2A_2223
	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) German (Joint Honours): Third Year GRNGRNJJ3_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
		German Language 1	15	AND
		German Language 2	15	AND
	Hide list View list	30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM4000 - GM4095, GM4097
	GM3047	The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche	15
	GM3075	Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus	15
		Travel Writing in German since 1990	15
		The German Gothic (1800 - 2000)	15
	GM3091	The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory	15
		Translation Methodology (German / English)	15
		Medieval Things	15
	GM4048	Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture	15
		German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen	15
	GM4057	Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents	15
	GM4058	Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture	15
	GM4061	Animals in Literature and Film	15
	GM4070	Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000)	15
	GM4071	Shakespeare: the German Catalyst	15
	GM4072	German Classicism	15
	GM4073	Women in German Letters	15
	GM4074	Medieval History	15
	GM4075	Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis	15
	GM4078	Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature	15
	GM4084	German Monsters	15
	GM4089	Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began	15
		East German Cinema	15
	GM4094	The German Long Story	15
		Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898	15
	GM4097	Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond	15
	GM3073	The Medieval Short Story	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 (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year PHIPHIJJ3A_2223
	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
		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) German (Joint Honours): Fourth Year GRNGRNJJ4_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
		German Language 3	15	AND
		German Language 4	15	AND
	Hide list View list	30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM3103, GM4000 - GM4099, ML4794, ID4002
	GM3047	The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche	15
	GM3075	Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus	15
		Travel Writing in German since 1990	15
		The German Gothic (1800 - 2000)	15
	GM3091	The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory	15
		Translation Methodology (German / English)	15
		Medieval Things	15
	GM4048	Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture	15
		German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen	15
	GM4057	Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents	15
	GM4058	Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture	15
	GM4061	Animals in Literature and Film	15
	GM4070	Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000)	15
	GM4071	Shakespeare: the German Catalyst	15
	GM4072	German Classicism	15
	GM4073	Women in German Letters	15
	GM4074	Medieval History	15
	GM4075	Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis	15
	GM4078	Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature	15
	GM4084	German Monsters	15
	GM4089	Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began	15
		East German Cinema	15
	GM4094	The German Long Story	15
		Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898	15
	GM4097	Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond	15
		Dissertation on German Topic	15
		Long Dissertation on a German Topic	30
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
	GM3073	The Medieval Short Story	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 (Hons) (Joint Honours): Fourth year PHIPHIJJ4A_2223
	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
		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
	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, 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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