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Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. Philosophy with English Literature with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The University’s Enhanced Curriculum Framework permits students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who complete less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree.

Students choose 120-credits of optional modules.
Students must take a minimum of 40-credits in Philosophy and a minimum of 40-credits in English Literature.
Students taking 60 or 80-credits in either department may replace 20-credits with ONE 20-credit Skills module. Only on Skills module may be taken.
Students must take 60-credits in each semester.

Students taking 80 credits in Philosophy and 40 credits in English Literature
Philosophy: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2
English Literature: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2

Students taking 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 credits in English Literature
Philosophy: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2
English Literature: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2
OR
Philosophy: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2
English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2

Students taking 40 credits in Philosophy and 80 credits in English Literature
Philosophy: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2
English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2.

English Literature optional modules - indicative list

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism 09 32447 20 Semester 2
LI Colonial/Postcolonial 09 39968 20 Semester 2
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 2
LI Earliest English 09 37686 20 Semester 1
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature 09 39915 20 Semester 1
LI Gothic 09 39923 20 Semester 1
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture 09 39935 20 Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 1
LI Our Digital World 09 39969 20 Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel 09 37896 20 Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance 09 39840 20 Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 39982 20 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 39983 20 Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature 09 38960 20 Semester 2

Philosophy optional modules - indicative list

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aesthetics through History 09 30872 20 Semester 1
LI Climate and Environmental Ethics 08 38929 20 Semester 2
LI Elements of Metaphysics 09 30074 20 Semester 1
LI Experience and Reason: Early Modern Philosophy 08 26781 20 Semester 1
LI Feminist Philosophy 08 26782 20 Semester 2
LI Logic 09 40218 20 Semester 2
LI Philosophy of Mental Health 09 30841 20 Semester 1
LI Sex, Ethics & Philosophy 09 23955 20 Semester 2
LI The Ethics of Killing 08 26826 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken i place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Professional Skills 09 36839 20 Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance 09 37012 20 Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1