BA History and Philosophy VV15

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
Studying history and philosophy allows you to question your assumptions and trace the origins of modern societies and cultures. You will learn to analyse beliefs and concepts and to consider how past societies worked.
Discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading. The History Department's expertise covers a wide range of regions, from Europe and Africa to America, South Asia and the Middle East. Module choices cover diverse periods and topics, from the Crusades to the 1960s, slavery in America to Tudor monarchy, and Cold War Berlin to medieval magic. In your first year, your core modules will explore people, politics and revolution, finding out how people struggled for power in past societies; and the culture and concepts those societies developed. We will teach you the skills you need to study and research history through an individual project of your choice.
Studying philosophy will equip you with the ability to think logically, to evaluate arguments critically, and to challenge your own ideas and those of other people. You will be taught by leading experts whose research strengths lie especially in moral philosophy and the philosophy of the mind and language. Your first year will introduce you to the general skills required for all philosophy and you will also have the chance to explore non-western philosophies such as Indian philosophy.
In both subjects, you will be taught in small interactive seminar groups, encouraging discussion and debate with teaching staff and fellow students. We place a great deal of importance on employability skills and offer a range of modules to help students gain relevant work experience as well as explore career options.
You will be encouraged to undertake work placements and there is the opportunity to study abroad for a term in your second year. The University also offers all students the chance to learn a modern language...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy
  • Moral
  • Politics
  • Ethics
  • University
  • Magic
  • Project

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Reason and Argument
  • Journeys through History 1 (People, power and revolution)
  • Journeys through History 2 (Culture, art and ideas)
  • Research Skills and Opportunities in History (individual project)
Optional modules include:
  • Human Nature
  • Mind and World
  • Values and Virtues
  • Past and Present
  • Texts and Contexts
  • Ideas and Ideologies

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Optional modules include:
  • Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
  • Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
  • Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
  • Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
  • Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
  • Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
  • Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
  • Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
  • The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
  • Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
  • Aesthetics
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Contemporary Political Philosophy
  • Early Modern Philosophy 1
  • Early Modern Philosophy 2
  • Ethics and Animals
  • Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • Introductory Logic
  • Language and Reality
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Women of the Medieval World
  • American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
  • Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Theory of Knowledge
  • ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Dissertation (either in History or in Philosophy)
Optional modules include:
  • Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
  • From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
  • Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
  • Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
  • Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
  • The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
  • Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
  • Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
  • Biomedical Ethics
  • Contemporary Moral Theory
  • Discovering Archives and Collections
  • Dissertation in History
  • Dissertation in Philosophy
  • Environmental Ethics
  • European Case Studies (3)
  • Fairness
  • France and Europe since 1945
  • Free Will and Responsibility
  • History Education
  • Ireland and the English in the middle ages
  • La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
  • Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
  • Paradoxes
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Crime and Punishment
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Wittgenstein
  • Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
  • Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
  • Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
  • The History of Political Philosophy
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
  • The United States and the Cold War

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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