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Master of Arts (Honours) Classical Studies and Philosophy


MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: CL1004 - CL1005 OR
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: AN1003-AN1004, CL1004-CL1005, GK1001- GK1002, GK1005-GK1006, LT1001-LT1004 ) AND
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean 20
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) First and Second Year Programme Requirements:
  • For the Classical studies element of their degree, over the two subhonours years, students must pass 80 credits in 1000-level or 2000-level modules in Ancient History (AN), Classical Studies (CL), Greek (GK) or Latin (LT), including at least 40 credits at 2000-level.
  • The 80 credits must include one or both of the following pairs of modules: CL1004 + CL1005, CL2003 + CL2004.
Note: most students taking Classical Studies joint or single Honours take CL1004 and CL1005 in their first year and CL2003 and CL2004 in their second, but many other combinations of modules within the School of Classics are possible.
MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199 AND
PY1014 Philosophy 1: Topics in Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, and Philosophy of Science 20
PY1015 Philosophy 2: Topics in Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaethics, and Aesthetics 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


First Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

For students starting in 2026/7:

A minimum of 40 credits from: PY1001-PY1199.

For students who started before 2026/7:

20 credits: PY1012

A minimum of 20 further credits from PY1001-PY1199.
MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: CL2003 - CL2004 OR
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: AN2004 - AN2005, CL2003 - CL2004, GK2001 - GK2004, LT2001 - LT2004 ) AND
AN2004 Ancient Societies: Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the Ancient World 20
AN2005 Narratives of Antiquity 20
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 20
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 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 module catalogue 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

MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) First and Second Year Programme Requirements:
  • For the Classical studies element of their degree, over the two subhonours years, students must pass 80 credits in 1000-level or 2000-level modules in Ancient History (AN), Classical Studies (CL), Greek (GK) or Latin (LT), including at least 40 credits at 2000-level.
  • The 80 credits must include one or both of the following pairs of modules: CL1004 + CL1005, CL2003 + CL2004.
Note: most students taking Classical Studies joint or single Honours take CL1004 and CL1005 in their first year and CL2003 and CL2004 in their second, but many other combinations of modules within the School of Classics are possible.


Automatic entry to Honours requires:
An average of 7 or better must be obtained in two 2000-level AN, CL, GK or LT modules. If more than two are taken the average will be based on the best two results.
MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: PY2000 - PY2103 AND
PY2010 Intermediate Logic 20
PY2011 Foundations of Western Philosophy 20
PY2012 Meaning and Knowing 20
PY2013 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199 AND
PY1014 Philosophy 1: Topics in Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, and Philosophy of Science 20
PY1015 Philosophy 2: Topics in Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaethics, and Aesthetics 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

For students starting in 2026/7:

A minimum of 40 credits from: PY1001-PY1199;

A minimum of 40 credits from: PY2000-PY2103;

For students who started before 2026/7:

20 credits: PY1012;

A minimum of 40 credits from: PY2000-PY2103;

A minimum of 20 further credits from: PY1001-PY1199

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) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
CL3304 Classical Studies: Interpretations and Receptions 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797) AND
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797)
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4009 Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4338 Women's Lives in the Ancient Mediterranean 30
AN4339 Land, Power, and the end of Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year


MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

30 credits: CL3304 (in Third Year only)

30 credits: CL4000 - CL4989, ((CL4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only).

At least 30 further credits: AA4000-AA4989, AN4000-AN4989, CL4000-CL4989, (CL4998 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - in Fourth Year only).

Only one of CL4998, CL4999 and CL4794 can be taken.


Further requirements:

In total 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 levels with a minimum of 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
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30
PY3200 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859
PY4323 The Philosophy of Zhuangzi 30
PY4325 Class, Status, and Aesthetics 30
PY4326 From Existentialism to Post-Structuralism 30
PY4327 What is Philosophy? 30
PY4328 Themes from Early Analytic Philosophy 30
PY4601 Paradoxes 30
PY4604 Political Philosophy 30
PY4606 Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz 30
PY4609 Philosophical Methodology 30
PY4610 Philosophy of Perception 30
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
PY4614 Philosophy of Mind 30
PY4615 Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4617 The Philosophy of Saul Kripke 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4620 Virtue and Vice 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
PY4632 Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4633 Philosophy of Mathematics 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
PY4637 Asian Philosophies 30
PY4638 Philosophy of Religion 30
PY4639 Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4643 Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy, Literature, and Fiction 30
PY4646 Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4648 Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy 30
PY4649 Core Works in Continental Philosophy 30
PY4650 Philosophy, Feminism and Gender 30
PY4651 Effective Altruism 30
PY4652 The Philosophy of Human Rights 30
PY4653 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
PY4659 Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
PY4661 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
PY4666 Bioethics 30
PY4667 Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key Texts in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
PY4670 Ethics and the Allocation of Health Resources 30
PY4671 Dreaming and Waking 30
PY4672 Collective Agency and Responsibility: Corporations, Governments, Humanity 30
PY4673 The Metaphysics of Natural and Social Kinds 30
PY4674 Refugees and the Ethics and Politics of Migration and Displacement 30
PY4675 Philosophy of Probability 30
PY4676 Islamic Philosophy 30
PY4677 Meditation as Philosophy: Mind, Self and Self-Consciousness 30
PY4678 Philosophising the Body 30
PY4679 Plato's Dialogues 30
PY4680 Science and Society 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year


Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

90-120 credits: PY3000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 or PY4796 - 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 Philosophy Director of Teaching.

In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.
MA (Hons) Classical Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4000 - CL4989, CL4794, CL4999 AND
CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
CL4999 Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: CL4998, (ID4002 + CL4990), AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794 - CL4797)
CL4998 Dissertation in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies for Study Abroad Programmes 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4009 Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


MA Classical Studies (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

30 credits: CL3304 (in Third Year only)

30 credits: CL4000 - CL4989, ((CL4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only).

At least 30 further credits: AA4000-AA4989, AN4000-AN4989, CL4000-CL4989, (CL4998 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - in Fourth Year only).

Only one of CL4998, CL4999 and CL4794 can be taken.


Further requirements:

In total 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 levels with a minimum of 90 credits at 4000 level.
MA (Hons) (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200 AND
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30
PY3200 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859 AND
PY4323 The Philosophy of Zhuangzi 30
PY4325 Class, Status, and Aesthetics 30
PY4326 From Existentialism to Post-Structuralism 30
PY4327 What is Philosophy? 30
PY4328 Themes from Early Analytic Philosophy 30
PY4601 Paradoxes 30
PY4604 Political Philosophy 30
PY4606 Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz 30
PY4609 Philosophical Methodology 30
PY4610 Philosophy of Perception 30
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
PY4614 Philosophy of Mind 30
PY4615 Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4617 The Philosophy of Saul Kripke 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4620 Virtue and Vice 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
PY4632 Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4633 Philosophy of Mathematics 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
PY4637 Asian Philosophies 30
PY4638 Philosophy of Religion 30
PY4639 Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4643 Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy, Literature, and Fiction 30
PY4646 Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4648 Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy 30
PY4649 Core Works in Continental Philosophy 30
PY4650 Philosophy, Feminism and Gender 30
PY4651 Effective Altruism 30
PY4652 The Philosophy of Human Rights 30
PY4653 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
PY4659 Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
PY4661 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
PY4666 Bioethics 30
PY4667 Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key Texts in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
PY4670 Ethics and the Allocation of Health Resources 30
PY4671 Dreaming and Waking 30
PY4672 Collective Agency and Responsibility: Corporations, Governments, Humanity 30
PY4673 The Metaphysics of Natural and Social Kinds 30
PY4674 Refugees and the Ethics and Politics of Migration and Displacement 30
PY4675 Philosophy of Probability 30
PY4676 Islamic Philosophy 30
PY4677 Meditation as Philosophy: Mind, Self and Self-Consciousness 30
PY4678 Philosophising the Body 30
PY4679 Plato's Dialogues 30
PY4680 Science and Society 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Credits from Module List: PY4701, ID4002 AND
PY4701 Philosophy and Pedagogy 15
ID4002 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Credits from Module List: PY4698, PY4699, PY4794, PY4796
PY4698 Dissertation (Whole Year) 30
PY4699 Dissertation in Philosophy 30
PY4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
PY4796 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

90-120 credits: PY3000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 or PY4796 - 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 Philosophy Director of Teaching.

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 58吃瓜 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).