Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. English Literature and Philosophy Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

Students should choose two options from the Histories of Literature List:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism 09 32447 20 Semester 2
LI Epic Ambitions 09 25850 20 Semester 2
LI Fin de Siècle 09 31774 20 Semester 1
LI New World Orders? Literature after 1945 09 27773 20 Semester 2
LI Real and Ideal: Art and Society in Mid Nineteenth Century France 10 24003 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Romanticisms 09 27770 20 Semester 1
LI Songs and Sonnets: English Poetry from Wyatt to Donne 09 29088 20 Semester 1
LI Stories of the Novel 09 25852 20 Semester 2
LI The Canterbury Tales 09 29579 20 Semester 1
LI Twenty-First-Century Literature 09 27775 20 Semester 2
LI Victorian Literature 09 27776 20 Semester 1
Popular Fiction before the Novel 09 27845 20 Semester 1

Students should choose one option from the Transhistorical List:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A 09 33252 10 Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B 09 33254 10 Semester 2
LI The Gothic A 09 33274 10 Semester 1
LI The Gothic B 09 33277 10 Semester 2
LI Tragedy A 09 33279 10 Semester 1
LI Tragedy B 09 33281 10 Semester 2

The optional modules are divided into three categories that represent three core areas of philosophy: history of philosophy; ethics and social philosophy; epistemology metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and language. These groupings are the following: (Please note: the specific modules listed are indicative, as provision may evolve to reflect, for example, staffing changes)

Group A: Science and Nature, Logic: Its Limits and Scope, Philosophy of Mental Health

Group B: Feminist Philosophy, Sex, Ethics and Philosophy

Group C: Experience and Reason, Aesthetics through History

If joint honours philosophy students are doing either 60 or 80 credits of philosophy in Stage II, they are required to choose optional modules from at least two groups. If they are doing only 40 credits of philosophy in Stage II, then this rule does not apply - they can choose two modules from just one group.

Group A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aesthetics through History 09 30872 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: Its Limits + Scope 08 26792 20 Semester 2
LI Philosophy of Mental Health 09 30841 20 Semester 2
LI Philosophy of Mind and Language 08 36102 20 Semester 1
LI Science and Nature 09 30886 20 Semester 1
LI Sex, Ethics & Philosophy 09 23955 20 Semester 2
LI The Ethics of Killing 08 26826 20 Semester 1

Group B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Feminist Philosophy 08 26782 20 Semester 2
LI Political Disagreement 09 30162 20 Semester 1
LI Sex, Ethics & Philosophy 09 23955 20 Semester 2
LI The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change 08 26780 20 Semester 1
LI The Ethics of Killing 08 26826 20 Semester 1

Group C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aesthetics through History 09 30872 20 Semester 1
LI Experience and Reason: Early Modern Philosophy 08 26781 20 Semester 1
LI Philosophy of Mental Health 09 30841 20 Semester 2
LI The History of Analytic Philosophy 08 26791 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in 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