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BA Philosophy with Foundation Year (PHIU199)     PT

2019 - 2020

 
 

Year 1


Students should contact the Department directly for further information about which units are taken in which year of study


units (20 credits)
1A
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
PHI115  Reason and Argument AUT SEM 10 credits
PHI123  Philosophy of Science AUT SEM 10 credits
PHI126  Mind, Brain and Personal Identity AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI134  History of Philosophical Ideas AUT SEM 10 credits
PHI135  Writing Philosophy AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
PHI116  Elementary Logic SPR SEM 10 credits
PHI121  Knowledge, Justification and Doubt SPR SEM 10 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
1B
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
PHI107  Philosophy of Religion AUT SEM 10 credits
PHI125  Matters of Life and Death AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
PHI103  Self and Society SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI118  History of Ethics SPR SEM 10 credits
PHI132  Death SPR SEM 10 credits
PHI133  Film and Philosophy SPR SEM 10 credits
PHI158  Philosophy of Sex SPR SEM 10 credits

1C

Unrestricted F4 units to the value of 20 credits chosen from 1A and 1B


1D
Unrestricted F4 units to the value of 60 credits which may include modules from 1A and 1B and/or REL1001 LGBT Studies and REL126 A Life Worth Living
 

Year 2


Students should contact the Department directly for further information about which units are taken in which year of study


units (120 credits)
2
A student will take 120 credits from this group.

Semester 1
PHI202  Philosophy of Mind AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI211  Theory of Knowledge AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI217  Plato AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI218  The Rationalists AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI219  Ethics: Theoretical and Practical AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI225  Metaphysics AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI227  Religion and the Good Life AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
PHI203  Formal Logic SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI212  Philosophy of the Arts SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI216  Feminism SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI220  Political Philosophy SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI226  Philosophy of Education SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI230  Philosophy of Science SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F5 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 3


Students should contact the Department directly for further information about which units are taken in which year of study


units (120 credits)
3
A student will take 120 credits from this group.

Semester 1
PHI302  Metaphysics AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI325  Phenomenology AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI332  Philosophy of Psychology AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI335  Philosophical Problems 1 AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI355  Philosophical Project 1 AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI364  Philosophy of Law AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI374  The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI375  Philosophy of Medicine AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI379  The Political Philosophy of Climate Change AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI383  The Rationalists AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI385  Sources of Normativity AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
PHI324  Feminism SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI330  Philosophical Problems II SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI340  Aristotle SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI350  Global Justice SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI356  Philosophical Project 2 SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI370  Free Will & Religion SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI377  Work Place Learning SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI381  Moral Theory and Moral Psychology SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI382  For the Love of Knowledge: Topics in Analytic and Social Epistemology SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI384  Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F6 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Year 0


units (60 credits)
0A
A student will take

Semester 1
ACE0351  Introduction to the Humanities AUT SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
ACE0340  Academic Literacy and Communication Skills ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0345  Maths and Statistics ACAD YR 20 credits

Year 0


units (20 credits)
0B
A student will take

Full academic year
ACE0349P  Extended Project (PHI) ACAD YR 20 credits

units (40 credits)
0C
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ACE0354  Foundations of Biology (Core) AUT SEM 10 credits
ACE0357  Foundations of Chemistry (Core) AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
ACE0355  Foundations of Biology (Human) SPR SEM 10 credits
ACE0356  Foundations of Biology (Organisms & Environment) SPR SEM 10 credits
ACE0358  Foundations of Chemistry (Further) SPR SEM 10 credits

Full academic year
ACE0343  Foundations of Psychology ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0344  Foundations of Sociology ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0346  Foundations of History ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0347  Foundations of Geography ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0348  Foundations of English ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0353  Foundations of Time and Humanity ACAD YR 20 credits
MUS001  Foundations of Music ACAD YR 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F4 Level ACE or MLTC Languages for All units to the value of 20 credits.

0D

Before proceeding to Level 1, a student will attain both 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of 60 or above; a candidate with 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of between 57.0 and 59.9 may be permitted to proceed at the discretion of the Board of Examiners and the cognate department.

 
 
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Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.