B.A. Asian Studies and Philosophy (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

• Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Metaphysics
• Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
• Introduction to Philosopy: Logic and Reasoning
• Philosophical Reading and Writing (core)
• Introduction to Asian Traditions
• Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
• World Literature:An Introduction
• Learning Mandarin Chinese 1A
• Learning Mandarin Chinese
• Learning Japanese 1A: An Introduction to Elementary Japanese
• Learning Japanese 1B: An Introduction to Upper Elementary Japanese

• Themes in the Study of Asia
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Continental Philosophy: Subject, Identity and the Political
• Death and Beauty: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
• Normative Ethics
• Feminist Philosophy
• The Rise & Fall of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
• Contemporary Theory of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Philosophy of Language
• Advanced Topics in Mind and Langauge
• Logic
• Philosophy of Science
• Aesthetics
• Metaphysics
• Political Philosophy

• Advanced Topics in Reasoning
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Justice, Violence and the State
• Political Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• The Rise & Fall of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
• Aesthetics
• Contemporary Theory of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Philosophy of Language
• Advanced Topics in Mind and Language
• Logic
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Feminist Philosophy