Philosophy and English BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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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.
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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
Autumn teaching
- Acts of Writing 1
- Critical Approaches 1
- Paradox and Argument
- Acts of Writing 2
- Critical Approaches 2
- Early Modern Philosophy
Autumn teaching
- Existentialism
- Science and Reason
- Truth and Morality: The Meaning of Life
- Logic and Meaning
- Reading Philosophy
- Society, State and Humanity
Autumn teaching
- Kant
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
- 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 (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
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
- 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
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Philosophy and English BA (Hons)