What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Realism and Normativity | PHIL20046 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Choose from the following | |||||
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 Mathematics | PHIL20039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Logic 2 | PHIL20036 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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-1 | |
What is democracy, and how should it work? | PHIL20057 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Space, Time and Matter | PHIL20053 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Up to 40 credit points of Open Units of at least level I/5 | OPEN | 40 | Optional | ||
Students can normally take up to 40cp of open units during the course of the BA Philosophy programme | |||||
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 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).
Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.