BA Philosophy and English Literature VQ53
Bachelor's degree
In Reading
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Newcastle-under-Lyme College (NULC)
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Weymouth College
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School of Languages and Social Sciences - Aston University
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South Worcestershire College
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Royal Academy of Dance
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University of the Highlands and Islands
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University of Oxford
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Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Reading
Full Time: 3 Years
Develop your critical and analytical skills and apply them to a variety of philosophical and literary texts. Our students become expert at presenting arguments clearly and persuasively.
In philosophy, we will give you an understanding of the central philosophical principles, concepts, problems, texts and figures. You will be taught by leading experts whose research strengths lie especially in moral philosophy and the philosophy of the mind and language. You will also have the chance to explore non-Western philosophies, such as Indian philosophy.
Your first year will introduce you to the general skills required for all philosophy. You can also select modules from outside the department. In years two and three you will have the opportunity to explore your chosen topic in more depth, with modules such as "Ethics and animals", "Philosophy of crime and punishment" and the "Philosophy of religion".
In your English Literature modules, you will read more of authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But you will also encounter aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction.
As you progress through your degree, your module choices become more diverse and specialised: you can do archive work on "Studying manuscripts", or look at the politics of literature in "Writing global justice". Everyone in the English Department, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every level of the degree: this gives you the benefit of our expertise and makes you part of the conversation about our research and its impact outside the classroom. We place a strong emphasis on small-group learning within a friendly and supportive environment. In your first and second years, you will...
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- Philosophy
- Writing
- English
- Poetry
- Ethics
- Moral
- Shakespeare
- Global
- Politics
Course programme
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Genre and Context
- Poetry in English
- Reason and Argument
- Research and Criticism
- Human Nature
- Mind and World
- Values and Virtues
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2 Optional modules include:- Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
- Writing, Gender, Identity
- Writing, Genre and the Market
- Aesthetics
- Ancient Philosophy
- Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
- Communications at Work
- Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Critical Issues
- Early Modern Philosophy 1
- Early Modern Philosophy 2
- Early Modern Theatre Practice
- Ethics and Animals
- Introduction to Old English Literature
- Introductory Logic
- Language and Reality
- Lyric Voices 1340-1650
- Modernism
- Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Science
- Renaissance Texts and Cultures
- Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
- Shakespeare
- The Business of Books
- The Romantic Period
- Theory of Knowledge
- Victorian Literature
- Writing America
- Writing and Revising
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3 Optional modules include:- Alfred Hitchcock
- American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
- Biomedical Ethics
- Black British Fiction
- Colonial Explorations
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Contemporary Moral Theory
- Children’s Literature
- Class Matters
- Environmental Ethics
- ‘Eyes on the Prize’: Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
- Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
- Decadence and Degeneration
- Dickens
- Dissertation in Philosophy
- Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Fiction and Ethnicity in post-war Britain and America
- Free Will and Responsibility
- Editing the Renaissance
- Fairness
- Family Romances
- Holocaust Fiction
- City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
- Holocaust Testimony
- Irish Poetry
- James Joyce
- Literature and the Railway
- Margaret Atwood
- Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
- Modern Scottish Fiction
- Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
- Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
- Packaging Literature
- Paradoxes
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Crime and Punishment
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Wittgenstein
- Psychoanalysis and Text
- Restoration Literary Culture
- Samuel Beckett
- Science in Culture
- The History of Political Philosophy
- The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
- Victorian & Edwardian Children’s Fantasy
- Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
- Writing Global Justice
- Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- American Graphic Novel
- The African-American Short Story
- Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
- John Milton
- Modern American Drama
- Modernism and Politics
- Shakespeare and Gender
- Utopia
- Victorian Literature and Medicine
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
BA Philosophy and English Literature VQ53
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Newcastle-under-Lyme College (NULC)
A Level Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Weymouth College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
School of Languages and Social Sciences - Aston University
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
South Worcestershire College
Short course OnlinePrice on request -
Royal Academy of Dance
Bachelor's degree Distance Learning£ 6001-7000 -
University of the Highlands and Islands
Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000 -
University of Oxford
Master OnlinePrice on request
See all