Philosophy

University of Warwick

Bachelor's degree

In Coventry

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Coventry

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This stimulating degree sees world-leading experts teach, challenge and provoke you on a range of philosophical questions. Whether your interests lie in continental or analytical approaches to philosophy (or both), this course allows you to combine areas of interest or specialise in certain fields.

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Coventry (West Midlands)
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University Of Warwick, CV4 7AL

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About this course

You’ll benefit from expert guidance from staff in developing strong analytical and critical skills, alongside the ability to integrate complex bodies of thought involving multiple perspectives. Your capacity to explain and argue through persuasive writing, presentation and negotiation means you’ll be sought after by a variety of employers.

Our graduates have gone on to work for organisations including: City and Guilds, Ministry of Justice, Boots, Deloitte, British Heart Foundation.

Examples of our graduates’ job roles include: News Editor, Analyst, Account Manager (Advertising), English Teacher, Market Research Assistant.

A level: AAB

IB: 36 points

Degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • Analysis
  • Descartes
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Continental philosophy
  • History
  • Modern Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Operational

Course programme

In your first year, your modules will include the following core modules:
  • Reason, Argument and Analysis
  • Central Themes in Philosophy
  • Mind and Reality
  • Plato and Descartes
  • Logic I: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
  • Ancient Philosophy
You'll also select optional modules comprising 30 CATS.

Some recommended choices from the Philosophy department are listed below. However, you may select modules from other departments if you wish.
  • Ideas of Freedom
  • Existence, Experience and History: Key Topics in Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy
  • Philosophy for the Real World: Knowledge, Ignorance and Bullshit*
In your second year you will study the following modules:
  • History of Modern Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • You should then select optional modules from our optional philosophy modules comprising 75 CATS (you may choose to take up to 30 CATS in module(s) from another department)
In your final year, there are no core modules. You choose optional modules totalling 120 CATS. At least 90 CATS should come from our optional philosophy modules. The remaining 30 CATS may come from other departments if you wish.

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