B.A. Italian and Philosophy (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Canterbury

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Canterbury

The University of Kent offers the BA in Italian and Philosophy (Hons) programme. As a student of Philosophy at Kent, you do not so much learn about philosophy as learn to do it yourself. This includes not only studying major philosophies and philosophers, but also contributing your own ideas to an ongoing dialogue.

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Location

Start date

Canterbury (Kent)
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CT2 7PE

Start date

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • University
  • Metaphysics

Course programme

Course Content

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.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

  • History of Italian Cinema:The Legacy of Neo-Realism
  • Writing Italy through the Centuries:An Introduction
  • Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Metaphysics
  • Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
  • Introduction to Philosopy: Logic and Reasoning
  • Philosophical Reading and Writing (core)
  • Learning Italian - Beginners
  • Learning Italian 3 (Post A Level)

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

  • Learning Italian 2 (Intermediate)
  • Learning Italian 4 *Advanced)
  • Italian Extended Essay
  • Italian Short Story
  • Catching the Tide: Cultural Renewal in 20th Century Italy
  • Justice, Violence and the State
  • Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
  • Continental Philosophy: Subject, Identity and the Political
  • PL638 - Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Year abroad

The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with several universities in Italy.

Possible modules may include:

  • Year Abroad Module

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

  • Istantanea: Photography and Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary I
  • Learning Italian Through Literature
  • Italian Gangsters: Literary and Cinematic Representations of Crime in T
  • Italian Dissertation
  • Languages in the Classroom
  • Political Philosophy
  • Knowledge and Metaphysics: Descartes to Kant
  • Aesthetics
  • Metaphysics, Truth and Relativism
  • Metaethics
  • Philosophy of Medicine

B.A. Italian and Philosophy (Hons)

Price on request