B.A. Comparative Literature 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.

Possible modules may include:

• The Tale
• Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Metaphysics
• Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
• Introduction to Philosopy: Logic and Reasoning
• Philosophical Reading and Writing (core)

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
• Shakespeare's Afterlives
• Nordic Literature and Film
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
• Prize Winners
• The Text: Approaches to Comparative Literature
• Fiction and Power
• Modern Arabic Literature and the Middle East
• Travel Literature
• Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
• Science Fiction: History and Innovation
• Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
• European Realism
• Political Philosophy
• The Rise & Fall of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

• The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with several universities in Europe and the rest of the world.

Possible modules may include:

• Political Philosophy
• Knowledge and Metaphysics: Descartes to Kant
• Aesthetics
• Metaphysics, Truth and Relativism
• Metaethics
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Greek Philosophy:Plato and Aristotle
• Wittgenstein
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Language
• Advanced Topics in Mind and Language
• Logic
• Philosophy of Science
• Paradoxes
• Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Continental Philosophy: Subject , Identity and the Political
• Justice, Violence and the State
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Normative Ethics
• Schopenhauer and Nietzsche