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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. English Language and Philosophy Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 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 must take either:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Philosophical Project 08 27860 40 Full Term
LH Philosophical Project 09 21805 20 Full Term

Students choose 80 credits in Philosophy and/or in English Language. The lists below are indicative.

Students must choose a Dissertation option. Students choose at least 80-credits of optional modules. Students must take a minimum of 40-credits in Philosophy and a minimum of 40-credits in English Language. Students may take a Professional Skills Module in place of 20-credits of optional modules in semester 1. Students must take 40-credits of optional modules in each semester.

Students taking 80 credits in English Language and 40 credits in Philosophy.
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation, one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option.
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and 1 semester 2 option.

Students taking 60 credits in English Language and 60 credits in Philosophy:
EITHER
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation and one semester 1 option
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and two semester 2 options
OR
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: two semester 1 options and one semester 2 option
OR
English Language: two semester 1 options and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: 20 or 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one or two semester 2 options, depending on which dissertation has been chosen.
OR
English Language: one semester 1 option and two semester 2 options.
Philosophy: 20 or 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one or two semester 1 options depending on which dissertation has been chosen.

Students taking 40 credits in English Language and 80 credits in Philosophy:
EITHER
English Language: one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: 20 or 40 credit Philosophy dissertation, one or two semester 1 options and/or one or two semester 2 options depending on which dissertation option has been chosen.

English Language optional modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond) 09 31802 20 Semester 2
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 2
LH Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 2
LH Business Discourse and Communication 09 31805 20 Semester 2
LH Clinical Linguistics 09 28696 20 Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Narratives across Media 09 36984 20 Semester 1
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1

Philosophy optional modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bodies and Beauty 09 30158 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and How to Understand them: Topics in Philosophy of Biology 09 30840 20 Semester 1
LH It’s About Time! 09 30950 20 Semester 2
LH Just War 09 29256 20 Semester 1
LH Nietzsche 09 26095 20 Semester 1
LH Philosophy of Mathematics 09 26094 20 Semester 2
LH Prejudice Race + Gender 08 26796 20 Semester 1
LH Reason and Belief 09 31431 20 Semester 2
LH Social Justice 09 30837 20 Semester 1
LH Topics in Philosophy of Religion 08 26825 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules 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 who undertook 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
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1