BA Philosophy and English

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
Literary texts -- poems, novels, plays, essays and films – offer fascinating ways of exploring the big questions of life and meaning that the great philosophers focus upon in their Socratic dialogues, essays and treatises. Problems of mind and consciousness, of ethics and politics, of the existence of God, and what we can know -- all are tackled in their different ways by English literature and Philosophy.
Bringing English and Philosophy together allows you to come at such fundamental questions from different angles and so achieve richer and fuller understandings. This degree gives you analytical, communication and imaginative skills that are sought by employers in business, media and journalism, government and policy making, service and heritage industries, and a range of other fields.

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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Credit
  • Philosophy
  • English
  • Writing

Course programme

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Semester OneCompulsory

PHIL1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Knowledge and Mind

PHIL1016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reason and Argument

Optional

ENGL1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Poetic Language

ENGL1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multimedia Old English: Song, Skin and Cyberspace

ENGL1086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Act of the Essay

ENGL1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Novel

PHIL1006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Political Philosophy

PHIL1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Puzzles about Art and Literature

PHIL1020Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Faith and Reason

Semester Two

Philosophy: Students may replace one optional single philosophy module with a single module in an alternative subject in semester 2

Compulsory

PHIL1005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ethics

Optional

ENGL1079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Stage and Screen: An Introduction

ENGL1080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Literary Transformations

ENGL1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Group Research Project

ENGL1090Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Theory & Criticism

PHIL1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ancient Greek Philosophy

PHIL1021Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Existentialism and its Origins

PHIL1026Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applied Ethics

PHIL1027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Freedom and Responsibility

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

ENGLISH: Students normally choose either one double OR two single English modules:

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15-credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in Philosophy.

Semester One

English: Students can choose either one double OR two single English modules

Compulsory

PHIL2028Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Appearance and Reality

Optional

ENGL2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Romanticism

ENGL2011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865

ENGL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Jewish Fictions

ENGL2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Children's Literature

ENGL2029Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern Drama Since the Second World War

ENGL2046Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Images of Africa in Literature and Culture

ENGL2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Objects of Desire

ENGL2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Visions of Beowulf: new encounters with Anglo-Saxon culture

ENGL2077Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Money and Meaning in American Fiction

ENGL2080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England

ENGL2083Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Tales of Travel c.1000-1650: Idylls, Utopias, Monsters, and Cannibals

ENGL2091Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain

ENGL2092Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women Writers Remixed ca. 1850-1915

ENGL2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Victorian Feelings

GERM2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women and Hollywood

PHIL1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Puzzles about Art and Literature

PHIL2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Philosophy of Mind

PHIL2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Philosophy of Language

PHIL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Moral Philosophy

PHIL2021Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Epistemology

PHIL2037Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Philosophy of Religion

PHIL2040Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Metaethics

Semester Two

English: Students normally choose either one double OR two single English modules

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15-credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in Philosophy.

Optional

ENGL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern American Poetry

ENGL2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

ENGL2052Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Images of Women

ENGL2061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

The Nineteenth-Century Novel

ENGL2063Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Problems in Shakespeare: text, print and performance

ENGL2075Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories

ENGL2076Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Creative Writing after Modernism

ENGL2078Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Scriptwriting

ENGL2079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Contemporary Women's Writing

ENGL2085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Enlightenment Body

ENGL2089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Poems, Books and Anthologies

ENGL2093Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Contemporary Fiction and Visual Culture

ENGL2095Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Patriots and Cosmopolitans: African modes of belonging

ENGL2096Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Making New York Modern

ENGL2097Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Arthurian Worlds

FILM2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

PAIR2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Political Thinkers

PHIL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Aesthetics

PHIL2014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Logic

PHIL2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Kant

PHIL2032Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Metaphysics

PHIL2034Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Philosophy of Science

PHIL2036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Continental Philosophy

PHIL2039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ethics of Global Poverty

Year 3

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Students must take either PHIL3013 or ENGL3016 in their final year.

.

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15-credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in Philosophy.

Semester OneOptional

ENGL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Jewish Fictions

ENGL2087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Great Writers Steal: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking

ENGL3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Rakes and Libertines

ENGL3004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Writing the Novel

ENGL3015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Fantasy Film and Fiction

ENGL3039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Sweatshops, Sex Workers and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation

ENGL3047Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Literature and Visual Culture from the Middle East

ENGL3053Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Chaucer and his World

ENGL3056Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Victorian Bestsellers

ENGL3062Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Nuclear explosions, genetic engineering, and climate change: How literature has held the sciences to account since 1945

ENGL3069Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Love and Death in Africa's Cities

ENGL3078Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England

ENGL3079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Visions of Beowulf: New Encounters with Anglo-Saxon Culture

ENGL3081Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS)

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