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Programme code | 9PHIL012U |
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Programme type | Joint Honours (UG) |
Programme director(s) |
Anthony Everett (Philosophy)
Karen Tucker (Politics) |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
School/department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
Second School/department | Department of Philosophy |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Relevant QAA subject benchmark groups |
Politics and international relations (2023) (benchmark statement)
Philosophy (2019) (benchmark statement) |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 3 years (full time) |
Politics:
The Department of Politics, in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy, seeks to provide excellence in teaching and learning within a top quality research environment. We aim to expose joint honours students to the core theoretical constructs of the main subfields of Politics and cognate disciplines and expand their knowledge of a range of political systems, institutions, practices, behaviours and ideas. The Department aims to offer joint honours students a wide-ranging curriculum, stimulating student interest in political theory, theoretical constructs and perspectives, political analysis, political regions, systems and institutions and contemporary international relations. Our goal is to produce top quality, highly motivated graduates who have an advanced understanding of theoretical and conceptual tools with which to critically evaluate politics and the social sciences in their degree programme. The joint honours Politics programmes place primary emphasis on students' cognitive and research skills, particularly their written analysis. However, our assessment procedures encourage students to develop a broad range of transferable skills, including oral argument, rigorous time management skills, critical thinking, conceptualisation, independent learning and team-work.
The Department is committed to a strategy of widening access to students from non-traditional backgrounds. Preview Day provides potential applicants with an opportunity to visit the Department.Open Day provides students who have been offered a conditional place to visit.
Philosophy:
This programme is designed to offer students a thorough understanding of Philosophy as it is practised in the analytic tradition. The wide ranging and flexible curriculum provides a programme of study which has progressive intellectual challenges and consolidates previous experience at each new level.The mandatory units at level C provide all students with (a) a basic knowledge of some fundamental problems of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy (b) a basic competence in logic and the analysis of arguments and (c) the skills of reading and writing required in analytic philosophy. At levels I and H students choose from a wide range of options, taught by specialists in the areas of their own research, some text-based and others topic-based, ranging from ethics and political philosophy to philosophy of physics. Students are also expected to write a number of final essays which give them the opportunity both to explore areas in more depth and detail and to develop their own research skills. Students successfully completing the programme will be fully competent to continue with postgraduate study, but the programme also provides training in a wide range of transferable skills which serve as the foundation for many types of career.
An exchange scheme exists with the university of Maryland, allowing one or two Bristol students to spend the whole of their second year in Maryland. This is primarily designed for Single Honours Philosophers, but is sometimes possible for J.S. students after proper consultation & negotiation with J.S. partner departments.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Acquisition of knowledge and understanding through lectures, seminars and tutorials (1,2,3,4,5). Directed reading with a strong emphasis on primary materials (1,3,4,5). Regular problem classes (2). Tutorials and seminars to encourage student participation and advance understanding of difficult materials (1,3,4,5). Formative feedback on assessment is given through individual tutorials (for most units) and written comments. (1,2,3,4,5). |
Methods of Assessment | |
Coursework essays, testing understanding of a single topic in detail (1,3,4,5). Exams, testing breadth of knowledge of different subjects (1,2,4,5). Class tests and exercises in logic (2). An extended essay, testing the ability of students to research a subject of their own choice in detail (3,4,5). Coursework essays, logic exercises, and level C exams are formative; Level I and H exams and Extended essays are summative. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Lectures provide knowledge, enhance understanding, and serve to exemplify the characteristic virtues of analytic philosophy. Seminars and group tutorials aid understanding, and provide forums in which students can discuss philosophical issues with each other and with tutors. Problem classes in logic help students develop their analytical and argumentative skills. Coursework essays give students the opportunity to read widely and reflect carefully on the material covered in lectures and seminars. The extended essay gives level H students the opportunity for more intensive and independent research into chosen topics in Philosophy. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Essay writing tests the students' ability to read widely, analyse information and present reasoned arguments (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13). Examinations test the students' ability to assimilate information, assess and present arguments, and criticise difficult material in a concise and lucid manner (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13). Essay tutorials assist the students' ability to respond appropriately to criticism, to articulate and modify positions and arguments, and to develop a number of intellectual virtues (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13). The presentation and group discussion of seminar papers develop the students' skills in communication and virtues in intellectual debate (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13). Problem classes test the students' ability in logic (3,5,6,7). The extended Essay tests the students' ability to pursue an independent line of research, and to present the fruits of that research in a professional manner (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13). |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Seminars and tutorials are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to engage in class discussions and to give short presentations to initiate discussion, including defending their interpretations and arguments in debate with other students and staff (1,2, 4, 5, 8, 10) Research and written communication skills are developed through feedback on essays (2,3, 6, 8, 10). Students are given guidance in the use of electronic resources, and are informed of opportunities for C&IT training (6,7). Writing essays (especially Extended essays) for set deadlines encourages self-motivation and self-reliance, as well as independence of thought (1,6, 8, 10). |
Methods of Assessment | |
Examinations test the ability of the students to provide crisp and lucid presentations of difficult ideas and arguments. (3.9.10) Essays (especially Extended essays) test the ability of students to research their materials and to present ideas and arguments in a lucid and professional manner (1,2,3,6,7,8,10). |
Embedded within the curriculum |
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Co-curricular opportunities |
To follow |
Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Year 1 of the programme has been designed to lay the foundations, both in terms of subject-specific knowledge and skills and in terms of more general abilities, which will allow students to fulfil the programme's aims and objectives. By the end of the year, students should have a basic knowledge of some central areas of the subject (metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy) and some crucial philosophical skills, including competence in formal logic and familiarity with the aims and methods of analytic philosophy. They should also be developing their skills in essay-writing and in discussing philosophical issues in tutorials. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
Students further develop their skills and knowledge by choosing from a menu of options. These options are more demanding than level C units both in terms of the difficulty of the materials studied and of the amount of independent critical thinking required of the students. By the end of the year they should be capable of reading difficult and technical material (eg modern journal articles), grasping their arguments, and debating them in seminars with their peers. The two mandatory units, 'Realism' and 'Normativity', provide all level I students with basic knowledge and skills for more advanced level H units. |
Level H/6 - Honours |
Students further develop their skills and knowledge by choosing from a range of advanced options, taught by specialists in the areas of their own research. By the end of the year they should be capable of thinking critically and working independently. Students' capacity for intensive and independent research is further tested by the system of Extended essays. |
Level M/7 - Masters |
For the MSci Mathematics and Philosophy programme - all students take the 'History and Philosophy of Mathematics' unit from the PHS M.A. programme. Two finals essays (or a 20-credit project) further test their capacity for independent study. |
The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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The School's teaching learning and assessment strategy is based on [SB 4.1-4.9]:The acquisition of knowledge, understanding and analytical skills though lectures, seminars, individual supervision, team-work, debate, simulation, literature reviews, and independent study. The application of learning technologies include the use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Blackboard (all units registered), discussion boards, the internet, visual presentations, power-point, and handouts. The effective use of a wide range of literature and information sources are encouraged via the use of primary texts, academic texts, journal articles, the use of course packs, websites, popular culture materials (film and fiction) and other media. |
Methods of Assessment | |
The Politics Department provides for a range of formative and summative assessment across its degree programmes, including analytic and substantive exercises, presentations and participation, literature reviews, sessional examinations, analytical and research-based essays for formative and summative assessment, , unseen mock examinations, classificatory examinations and a Politics dissertation at Level H (optional for joint honours students) [SB 4.1-4.9]. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Critical academic abilities and intellectual skills are developed through a range of methods and strategies at different levels [SB4.1-4.9]. At Level C, learning methods include lectures and seminars. Learning is also facilitated by assignments and exercises. At Level I (Intermediate), students continue to be taught through a lecture and seminar programme, although with greater emphasis on the importance of independent study. At Level H, the strategy for learning focuses on individual, research-based learning. For most units, students participate in two-hour long research-oriented seminars. They are provided with the opportunity to conduct an independent research project in the form of a Politics dissertation. At all levels, the learning strategy focuses on the application of critical and creative thinking, an understanding of the contested nature of political concepts and the relationship between theory and evidence. Organisational and methodological research skills are specifically developed through the pre-requisite research methods unit at level I that offers training for the dissertation unit at level H. At all levels, each unit, lecture and seminar has clearly stated objectives and learning outcomes on the syllabus. All modes of written assessment (except examinations and the dissertation) receive written feedback sheets covering cognitive skills (including analysis and evidence), research skills, and skills in written communication. Written feedback in oral presentations covers such issues as time keeping, delivery, and content, as well as basis for improvement. The Department of Politics also provides a study skills advisor (for skills in written communication and English-language) and an IT advisor (each advisor holds a 1 hour weekly drop-in session). Learning methods also include the use of the VLE (Blackboard), general library classes (level C) and specialised library classes (Level H) to assist with independent research. Joint honours students who write a Politics dissertation are also provided with individual research tuition. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Methods of assessment such as essays, examinations and exercises are linked to learning methods and strategies [SB 4.1-4.9]. All modes of assessment require critical thinking, the application of concepts to empirical data, an ability to link argument and evidence and the application of formal presentational techniques. At level I, methods of assessment increase the use of independent study. Assessment methods also include critical oral analysis through the extensive use of participation, debate and presentation. At Level H, methods of assessment combine the option for a major independent project (the Politics dissertation) with analytical and research-based essay writing and unseen classificatory examinations. The use of extended seminars (rather than lectures) for teaching and learning develops students' critical analytical oral skills through sustained discussion, debate and research-based presentations. All exercises assess the ability to think critically, creatively and analytically. |
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Effective communication skills are developed through a number of strategies from Level C onwards, including analytical essay writing, exercises, and the requirement that students coherently and persuasively integrate evidence and argument [SB 4.1-4.9]. The ability to present and communicate a sustained argument in written format is developed through analytical and research-based formative and summative essays and the word dissertation. Oral communication skills are developed from Level C onwards in seminar discussions, debates and presentations. Communication skills (written and oral) are developed via the use of feedback sheets covering skills in written communication and, for oral presentations, issues of time keeping, delivery, content, and improvement. Team-work skills are developed through group exercises in seminars and team-work presentations. Effective use of information technology is developed through the use of the VLE (all units in the Politics Department are registered on Blackboard), the use of the internet for both academic and non-academic sources, and email. The Politics Department organises Library training sessions at Level C and Level I to ensure adequate understanding of learning resources. The Department also offers study skills tuition. An appreciation of professional standards and integrity are developed through guidelines and handouts on plagiarism, referencing, bibliographies, word length, deadlines and guidelines on penalties for violating institutional/departmental rules on each of the above. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Written skills are assessed from Level C onwards through analytical and research-based essays (formative and summative). All essays receive a mark and written feedback via an essay-feedback sheet (in cases of summative assessment at Levels I and H, the Department retains copies of all essay feedback sheets). The coherence and fluency of written communication skills under pressure are assessed through examination papers at Level C, Level I and Level H. Oral presentation skills are assessed through the credit point framework. All oral presentations receive a mark and written feedback from the seminar tutor. An ability to work independently is assessed through coursework and presentations, essays, preparation for examinations and, if taken as an option, the Politics dissertation. Information technology skills are ensured by requiring that all written work is word-processed, all students must be in email communication with the Department, and all students are expected to make use of the internet and the VLE (Blackboard). Professional standards and integrity are ensured by strictly imposed penalties for late submission of work, inappropriate referencing and over length essays (formative and summative). |
Embedded within the curriculum |
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Co-curricular opportunities |
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Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
At level C [CFUB, SB 2.1 (1)], the student is expected to have gained a foundational knowledge and understanding of the problems associated with the nature and study of politics. At this level, the foundational knowledge will comprise three out of the four major subfields of politics: these are comparative and national politics; political theory; research methods and world politics. The student is expected to attain a grounding in those three sub-fields taken. The student should show an ability to write clearly and analytically about key concepts of political science and use them to evaluate empirical evidence. The expectation is that students at Level C may require substantial direction from tutors with guidance on the development of study skills. The student should be able to use the library and other learning facilities, such as the VLE (Blackboard), to the appropriate level. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
At level I (CFUB) the student is expected to complete a foundational knowledge by taking the remaining unit at level C from the four sub-fields, that which was not studied during the first year. The student is also expected to have further developed his/her knowledge and understanding of politics and have acquired a more specialised understanding and broader range of theories, concepts and cases. The student is expected to be able to evaluate material by applying a range of critical perspectives and competing theoretical lenses to the analytic problem and should have acquired a strong conceptual understanding of areas of the discipline for later theoretical and substantive units. Students will extend their analytical skills, their ability to structure their work and present it fluently. They are expected to be developing a greater capacity for self-directed learning (for example, through the researching and writing of essays) and should be increasingly sophisticated in their ability to discuss and present information and ideas. Students will have the option to study research design should they wish to undertake a dissertation at level H. Students are also expected to have a strong grasp of the requisites of institutional learning and the norms of integrity and professionalism. |
Level H/6 - Honours |
At level H [CFUB], students are expected to broaden and deepen their knowledge of politics through their study of specialised optional subjects, the units being more closely linked to staff research interests [SB 3.1 (5). See SB 5.1-5.4]. They are expected to acquire a greater appreciation of the dominant conceptual and methodological approaches used in many areas of the discipline in more complexity and be able to apply these appropriately [SB 3.1 (2) (b), 3.2 (1) (a )]. Units at Level H offer greater opportunities for the use of primary source material in research. There is greater emphasis on independence in student learning and originality of thought and greater competence in oral and written presentation. Students are expected to develop further their ability to gather and assimilate information from diverse sources, to synthesise in an appropriate way and to engage in sophisticated critical evaluation of political arguments and texts [SB 3.2(1) (a )]. Students are encouraged to develop and test their own critical judgements and arguments, to develop greater independence and self-directed study and to further extend individual and group work skills [SB 3.1 (5)]. Students may choose to develop research skills through the option of a dissertation. |
The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
Workload Statement
Success at undergraduate level in the Social Sciences and Law depends on your being able to make the transition to self-motivated, independent learning. The programmes offered in the Faculty are designed to assist you in this development, in many cases by starting with larger lecture-based units providing the foundations of knowledge and skills in a subject, moving through to smaller seminar-based specialist units and finishing with an individual dissertation or research project. Over time you will be expected to take increasing responsibility for your own learning. But at the heart of your studies at every level there must be regular and disciplined individual reading, reflection and writing, whether in the library or at home. It is this skill of independent study above all others that you will take with you when you leave.
This model of academic development is particularly obvious in the more discursive subjects such as law, politics, social policy and sociology. The typical timetabled contact time for a discursive 20 credit point unit in the Faculty is about 30 hours. You will find that you need to allow for about 10 hours preparation on your own if you are to get the most from one of these teaching sessions. In addition there will often be class presentations or essays to write. Typically, the final year will include an independent research unit which by definition has a much smaller amount of more individualised support. Towards the end of any teaching block you may have additional revision or updating classes, and many programmes have occasional ad-hoc lectures of general interest and relevance. If you get stuck, there is always the chance to speak to your lecturer after a class or during their hours of general availability, or you could see your personal tutor. The Faculty also includes programmes which require increasing levels of mathematical sophistication, typically in Economics, Finance and Management. In this latter case, much larger numbers of lectures - up to 18 hours a week depending on option choices - and fewer small group classes are normal, as in the sciences.
As a result, and depending on your particular programme and option choices, your timetable is likely to be a lot less structured than that of fellow students who are linguists, scientists, engineers or medics. But the time that others spend in laboratories you should be spending in private study. In a sense, the library is your laboratory, and you will want to make best use of the excellent range of resources available to you here. A good University education does not tell you 'what you need to know'. Rather, we assume that, like your lecturers and professors, you are intellectually curious about your subject. We invite you to join us and we are there to help you satisfy your curiosity as best we can.
Assessment Statement
Please select the following link for a statement about assessment. This is University of Bristol access only.
https://www.bris.ac.uk/fssl/current-students/fssl-undergraduates/assessmentandfeedbackstatement.pdf
Philosophy:
The Philosophy department webpage and the undergraduate handbook.
Politics:
Contact the Departmental Secretary for information and referral.
Tel: (0117) 928 7898
Email: poli-admiss@bristol.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Politics
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Introduction to Philosophy A | PHIL10005 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Introduction to Philosophy B | PHIL10006 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Introduction to Formal Logic | PHIL10014 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Political Concepts | POLI11101 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Approaches to the study of Political Science | POLI11104 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Up to 10 credit points from: | ||||
Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Philosophical Text 3: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | PHIL10008 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science | PHIL10015 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Texts in Early Modern Philosophy: Empiricism | PHIL10031 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Texts in Modern Political Philosophy | PHIL10027 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Paradoxes | PHIL10028 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Critical Reasoning | PHIL10030 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Marx's Political Writings | PHIL10018 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Realism and Normativity | PHIL20046 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Theories of International Relations | POLI10003 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
40 credit points from: | ||||
Rational Choice | POLI21203 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Development Studies | POLI21213 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Co-operation and Integration In Europe | POLI21214 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Politics and Policy-Making in the UK | POLI21222 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Democracy and US Government | POLI21226 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa | POLI21231 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
International Organisations and Global Governance | POLI20003 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Principles of Quantitative Social Science | SOCI20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data | POLI20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Contemporary Political Theory | POLI22202 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Contemporary International Relations | POLI20002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia | POLI29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
NGO Development & Practice | POLI20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Russian Politics | POLI20006 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Apocalypse or Ecotopia? Green Political Thought | POLI20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia | POLI20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Global Justice | POLI20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Human Rights | POLI20011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
40 credit points from: | ||||
Epistemology | PHIL20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosophy of Mind | PHIL20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Ethics | PHIL20011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Political Philosophy | PHIL20012 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science | PHIL20037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosophy of Mathematics | PHIL20039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Logic 2 | PHIL20036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Ancient Philosophy | PHIL20040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Death, dying and disease | PHIL20049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 1 | PHIL20050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Space, Time and Matter | PHIL20053 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The following units are for students spending Teaching Block 2 abroad studying at one of our international partner universities: | ||||
Study Abroad A | PHIL20056 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Study Abroad B | PHIL20054 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Study Abroad C | PHIL20055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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60 credit points should be chosen from the following list with no more than 40 credits from (a), (b) or (c) | ||||
20 credit points may be chosen from: | ||||
First Extended Essay | PHIL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Second Extended Essay | PHIL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
(a) Philosophy of Science, Mathematics and Logic. Choose no more than 40 credits from: | ||||
Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences | PHIL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Probability and Rationality | PHIL30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
(b) Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind, Language, History of Philosophy. Choose no more than 40 credits from: | ||||
Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Death, dying and disease | PHIL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Themes in Modern European Philosophy 2 | PHIL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Space, Time and Matter | PHIL30125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Classical Chinese Philosophy | PHIL30128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Black Philosophical Thought | PHIL30129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
(c) Value Theory (Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics). Choose no more than 40 credits from: | ||||
Ethics and Literature | PHIL30094 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Philosophy and the Environment | PHIL30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship | PHIL30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Feminist Philosophy | PHIL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Philosophy of Economics | PHIL30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Virtue and Well-Being | PHIL30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
What is democracy, and how should it work? | PHIL30131 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Students must choose 60 credit points from the following units: | ||||
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues | POLI30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Justice between generations | POLI30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Political Violence | POLI30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Political Economy of China | POLI30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
European Foreign Policy | POLI30014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Europe in Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives | POLI30015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Holocaust - History and Legacy | POLI30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
US Foreign Policy | POLI30017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Secrecy, The State and Me | POLI30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Ethnic Politics | POLI30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Feminisms, Gender and International Relations | POLI30021 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Contemporary British Parliament | POLI31336 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Gender | POLI31351 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Post-Modern Political Theories | POLI31367 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Popular Culture and World Politics | POLI31378 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa | POLI31381 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Critical Security Studies | POLI31384 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Dissertation | POLI31555 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Peacebuilding: Theory and Practice | POLI31557 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
States and Markets | POLI31559 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Politics of Contemporary India | POLI31563 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Public Opinion and Democracy | SOCI30072 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Religion and Politics in the West | SOCI30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Risk, Danger and Disaster | SOCI30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Political Corruption | POLI30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy | POLI30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of the Contemporary Labour Party | POLI30024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Human Rights | POLI30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Power, Politics and Food | POLI30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa | POLI30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosophy and Politics (BSc) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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