Programmes
You can study Philosophy as a Single Honours, as a Joint Honours or as a subsidiary subject.
Single Honours:
| BA Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: V500 |
Joint Honours:
Joint programmes are designed to be flexible and you will study units from the two departments. You can study Philosophy as a Joint Honours with the following subjects:
| BA Philosophy and French | 4 years | UCAS code: RV15 |
| BA Philosophy and German | 4 years | UCAS code: RV25 |
| BA Philosophy and Italian | 4 years | UCAS code: RV35 |
| BA Philosophy and Portuguese | 4 years | UCAS code: RV55 |
| BA Philosophy and Russian | 4 years | UCAS code: RV75 |
| BA Philosophy and Spanish | 4 years | UCAS code: RV45 |
| BA Philosophy and Theology | 3 years | UCAS code: VV56 |
| BA Classical Studies and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: QV85 |
| BA English and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: QV35 |
| BSc Philosophy and Economics | 3 years | UCAS code: VL51 |
| BSc Philosophy and Politics | 3 years | UCAS code: VL52 |
| BSc Psychology and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: VC58 |
| MSci Mathematics and Philosophy | 4 years | UCAS code: GV15 |
| BSc Mathematics and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: VG51 |
| MSci Physics and Philosophy | 4 years | UCAS code: FVH5 |
| BSc Physics and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: FV35 |
| BSc Physics and Philosophy with Study in Continental Europe | 3 years | UCAS code: VF53 |
| BSc Sociology and Philosophy | 3 years | UCAS code: LV535 |
If you take Philosophy/Politics or Sociology/Philosophy, you normally study three subjects in the first year and that increases your range of options subsequently.
For Philosophy/Mathematics, Philosophy/Physics, Philosophy/Economics and Philosophy/Psychology you take more units in Mathematics or Physics or Economics or Psychology than Philosophy in your first year and no third subject.
For degrees joint with modern languages, Theology, Classical Studies and English the programmes are split 50:50 between the two subjects.
Intercalated BA in Medical Humanities for medical students
This is an innovative one-year degree course, designed for medical students. It includes core modules with medical perspectives in philosophy, history and literature. Elective modules include poetry, critical theory and the philsophy of science. There is also a dissertation. Click here for further details.Subsidiary subject
If you take Philosophy as an additional or subsidiary subject, you will standardly take PHIL10005 and PHIL10006; these are level 1 units, each worth 20 credits, and together they are intended to add up to a coherent self-standing one-year course in Philosophy. You will also have weekly tutorials beginning in the 2nd teaching week of the first semester. The first year course in philosophy is pretty much the same for everybody, whether or not they are reading a philosophy honours school. A few students, who have taken these level 1 units may, in a subsequent year, wish to take some level 2 units.
For further details go to the Undergraduate Prospectus.