Philosophy and English BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

With our Philosophy and English BA, you combine the interrogation of thought and text.
You investigate how thought and literature are shaped by culture in a wide variety of historical and political contexts. And at Sussex, you follow your own interests, choosing from a broad range of topics.
With this course, you develop your ability to critically analyse, challenge and communicate – essential skills for a wide range of careers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent Department of Philosophy graduates have gone on to jobs such as:
researcher, Atlas Partners
new business development executive, Centaur Media
communications officer, Institute for Employment Studies.

You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • Philosophy
  • English
  • Acts of Writing
  • Reading Philosophy
  • Humanity
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Acts of Writing 1
  • Critical Approaches 1
  • Paradox and Argument
Spring teaching
  • Acts of Writing 2
  • Critical Approaches 2
  • Early Modern Philosophy
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Existentialism
  • Science and Reason
  • Truth and Morality: The Meaning of Life
Spring teaching
  • Logic and Meaning
  • Reading Philosophy
  • Society, State and Humanity
Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Kant
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
  • Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Modernism and Childhood
  • Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Reading Post-Colonial Texts
  • Science and Literature
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
Spring teaching
  • Aesthetics
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
  • Modernisms
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • Romance
  • Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
  • Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
  • Victorian Things
  • Word & Image
  • Writing Poetry
Study abroad or Placement

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.

Placement (optional)

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for.

Year 3 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
  • Ethics
  • Experimental Writing
  • Islam, Literature and the 'West'
  • Islamic Philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Modern European Philosophy
  • Queer Literatures
  • Special Author(s): Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean
  • Special Author: Christopher Marlowe
  • Special Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Special Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Special Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Special Author: Salman Rushdie
  • Special Author: Thomas Hardy
  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Special Author: William Blake
  • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640
  • Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
  • The Literatures of Africa
  • The Uncanny
  • Utopias and Dystopias
Spring teaching
  • Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
  • Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
  • Figures in Analytic Philosophy
  • Figures in Post-Kantian Philosophy
  • Figures in Social and Political Philosophy
  • Language, Truth and Literature
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Research Dissertation (English)
  • School Placement Project
  • Writing Lives before 1800

Additional information

International students Fee :  £16,750 per year

Philosophy and English BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.