English and Philosophy BA

As a dual honours student you'll take half your modules in the School of English and half in the Department of Philosophy. The many optional modules mean you can design your degree around your individual interests.

The study of philosophy and English language literary cultures (including theatre, film and creative writing) as part of a dual degree throws you into some of the oldest debates around the very possibility of meaningful life.

They provide you with a complementary set of analytical and interpretative skills to comprehend and elucidate the literary qualities of philosophical texts (ambiguity, style, figurative language), and the philosophical debates underpinning literary texts.

They are mutually supportive subjects (and occasionally antagonistic ones), providing distinct but corresponding methodologies for the interrogation of the foundations of our understanding in and of the world: what is meaning, mind, art, truth or life?