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Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science and Philosophy


BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
CS1002 Object-Oriented Programming 20 AND
CS1003 Programming with Data 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
BSc (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.;

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Joint Honours): Second year (Direct Entry)
Code Module name Credits
^ CS2101 Foundations of Computation (Accelerated) 40 AND
^ CS2002 Computer Systems 30 AND
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

Direct entry to Year 2 is only available to Computer Science and Mathematics or Computer Science and Statistics Degrees.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ CS2001 Foundations of Computation 30 AND
^ CS2002 Computer Systems 30 AND
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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^
BSc (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

First and Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

A minimum of 40 credits from: PY1001 - PY1199;
A minimum of 40 credits from: PY2000-PY2103;

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

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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BSc 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.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
CS3050 Logic and Reasoning 15 AND
CS3052 Computational Complexity 15 AND
CS3099 Software Engineering Team Project 30

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Students must take CS3050 and CS3052.
Students may substitute a 30-credit, whole year, CS-owned VIP for CS3099.
BSc (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30 AND
View list At least 30 credits from Module List: PY3200, PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859
PY3200 Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy 30
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.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( CS4098 Minor Software Project 15 OR
CS4796 Joint Project (30cr) 30 ) AND
View list Between 0 and 15 credits from Module List: CS3100 - CS3399, ID4001, ID5059 AND
CS3101 Databases 15
CS3102 Data Communications and Networks 15
CS3104 Operating Systems 15
CS3105 Artificial Intelligence 15
CS3106 Human Computer Interaction 15
CS3301 Component Technology 15
CS3302 Data Encoding 15
ID4001 Communication and Teaching in Science 15
ID5059 Machine Learning for Data Analysis 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 Between 15 and 45 credits from Module List: CS4052, CS4100 - CS4999 (excl. CS4701, CS4796), CS5010 - CS5089 (excl. CS5041, CS5042)
CS4052 Logic and Software Verification 15
CS4102 Computer Graphics 15
CS4103 Distributed Systems 15
CS4105 Advanced Communication Networks and Systems 15
CS4201 Programming Language Design and Implementation 15
CS4202 Computer Architecture 15
CS4203 Computer Security 15
CS4204 Concurrency and Multi-Core Architectures 15
CS4302 Signal Processing: Sound, Image, Video 15
CS4303 Video Games 15
CS4402 Constraint Programming 15
CS4499 Computer Science (Special Subject) 15
CS5012 Language and Computation 15
CS5014 Machine Learning 15
CS5015 Symbolic Artificial Intelligence 15
CS5016 Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 15
CS5019 Artificial Intelligence (Special Subject) 15
CS5020 Principles of Computer Communication Systems 15
CS5029 Networks and Distributed Systems (Special Subject) 15
CS5030 Fundamentals of Software Engineering 15
CS5032 Critical Systems Engineering 15
CS5033 Software Architecture and Design 15
CS5034 Software Product and Project Management 15
CS5035 Software Quality 15
CS5039 Software Engineering (Special Subject) 15
CS5040 Human Computer Interaction Principles and Methods 15
CS5044 Information Visualisation 15
CS5052 Data-Intensive Systems 15
CS5055 Data Ethics and Privacy 15
CS5063 Web Technologies 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

Students must select between 45 to 75 credits from the Computer Science element. CS4052 is an optional module.
Students must take CS4098 or CS4796 or an approved Joint Honours project module from another school.
BSc (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200, PY4000-PY4689, CL4500-CL4520, ID4801,ID4859,PY4698- PY4699, PY4794, (PY4701 and ID4002)
PY3200 Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy 30
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
PY4698 Dissertation (Whole Year) 30
PY4699 Dissertation in Philosophy 30
PY4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 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
PY4701 Philosophy and Pedagogy 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 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 ).