Course Content
Year 1
- Evidence and Methods
- Group Research Project
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Beginning Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Reason and Argument
- Ethics
Year 2
- Historical Thinking
Year 3
History Dissertation plus two Philosophy option modules (from list below)
or
Third Year Project or Philosophy Dissertation plus either:
- Two Philosophy option modules
- One Philosophy option module and one History option module
- Elective module
In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
- Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
- Inquisitors and Heretics in the High Middle Ages
- Ireland in the Age of Revolution
- Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
- Rebellion and Revolution: The British Civil Wars, 1637-51
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
- The French Wars of Religion, 1559-94
- The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
- The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Philosophy of Christianity
- Idolatry and Tradition: The Philosophy of Maimonides and Crescas
- Happiness, Utility and Wellbeing
- Mind and Morality
- Cognitive Anomalies, Decision-Making and Democracy
- Philosophy of Grief
- Property and Self-ownership
- Philosophy of Recognition
- Consciousness
- From Marx to Critical Theory
- Philosophy of Law
- Philosophy of Psychology
- German Idealism: Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Foundations of Maths
- Philosophy of Physics
- Short dissertation
- Philosophy of Literature
- Buddhism as Philosophy
