Course Content
Year 1
English
- Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
- Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
- Key Concepts: An Introduction to Genre, Theory, and Writing
Philosophy
Core modules
Your modules in Philosophy will cover topics such as:
- Beginning Philosophy
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Reason and Argument B
- Ethics
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy B
Year 2
English
Option modules
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
You'll also be able to choose from subjects included in our World Literature modules. Recent offerings have included:
- An Introduction to Greek and Latin Literatures
- European New Cinema
- French Poetry 1844-1898
- The Literature of Hispanic America
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- Muslim Translations of Britain
- Old Norse Literature
- The World of Beowulf
Philosophy
Theoretical Philosophy
- Intermediate Logic
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Science
Value in Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Applied Ethics
- Ethical Theory
- Feminist Philosophy
- Religious Ethics
History of Philosophy
- Aristotle
- Hume
- Kant
- Nietzsche
- Spinoza and Leibniz
Year 3
English
Option modules
In English, you will choose from the department’s Advanced Option Modules. These reflect the wide-ranging and cutting-edge research expertise of the Department, and our options cover literature from the classical period to the twenty-first century, as well as film and creative writing. Students can typically choose from around 25 options. Recent offerings include:
- American Independent Film
- The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture
- Charles Dickens
- Fashion in the 18th Century
- Found in Translation
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages & Modern Literature from 1843 - 1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Poetry Boot Camp
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction
- Researching the Renaissance
- So Funny it Hurts: Irish Comic Fiction
- Villains of the Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
Philosophy
- Consciousness
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Foundations of Maths
- From Marx to Critical Theory
- German Idealism: Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy
- Phenomenology and Psychiatry
- Philosophy of Art: Hume to Tolstoy
- Philosophy of Christianity
- Philosophy of Islam
- Philosophy of Law (York Law School)
- Philosophy of Physics
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Theories of Social Justice
- The Value and Meaning of Life
- Wittgenstein and Philosophy
