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BA Philosophy, Religion and Ethics with Foundation Year (RELU16)     FT

2019 - 2020

For students whose initial registration is for the 2019-20 session or later
 
 

Year 1


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
PHI133  Film and Philosophy SPR SEM 10 credits
AND

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

Semester 1
LIT113  Foundations in Literary Study: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI107  Philosophy of Religion AUT SEM 10 credits
REL118  An Introduction to Islam AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
REL1013  Religion in Britain SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

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

Semester 1
PHI125  Matters of Life and Death AUT SEM 20 credits
REL1001  LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans*) Studies AUT SEM 10 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
PHI158  Philosophy of Sex SPR SEM 10 credits

units (20 credits)
1D
A student will take unrestricted 1A 1B or 1C units to the value of 20 credits.

1E

Unrestricted F4 units to the value of 40 credits, which may include units from 1A, 1B and 1C

Year 2


units (40 credits)
2A
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HST2042  Religion in an Age of Terror: Ancient Texts and the Making of Modern Israel. AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT272  Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI219  Ethics: Theoretical and Practical AUT SEM 20 credits
PHI227  Religion and the Good Life AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
REL210  Understanding Islam Text and Transition in the Modern World SPR SEM 20 credits
REL271  Sociology and Anthropology of Religion SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
2B
A student will take 40 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
PHI216  Feminism SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI220  Political Philosophy SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI230  Philosophy of Science SPR SEM 20 credits

units (20 credits)
2C
A student will take unrestricted 2A. or 2B. units to the value of 20 credits.

2D

Unrestricted F5 units to the value of 20 credits, which may include units from 2A. and 2B.

Year 3


units (40 credits)
3A
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
PHI374  The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics AUT SEM 20 credits
REL323  Dissertation (Dual Honours) AUT SEM 20 credits
REL379  Old Testament Texts AUT SEM 20 credits
REL384  Gender and Religion AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT3053  Project Module SPR SEM 20 credits
PHI370  Free Will & Religion SPR SEM 20 credits
REL359  New Testament Texts SPR SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
REL329  Dissertation (Single Honours) ACAD YR 40 credits

Students may take REL323 OR REL329 but not both units.

AND

units (40 credits)
3B
A student will take 40 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
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

units (20 credits)
3C
A student will take unrestricted 3A. or 3B. units to the value of 20 credits.

3D

Unrestricted F6 units to the value of 20 credits, which may include units from 3A. and 3B.

Year 0


units (80 credits)
0A
A student will take

Semester 1
ACE0351  Introduction to the Humanities AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ACE0349P  Extended Project (PHI) SPR SEM 20 credits

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

units (40 credits)
0B
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.

0C

Before proceeding to Level 1, a candidate will attain both 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of 60.0 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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