Course Content
Year 1
- Beginning Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Reason and Argument
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Ethics
- Cultivating a Sociological Imagination
- Introduction to Sociological Theory
Year 2
Option modules
Philosophy
- Lived Experiences: Introduction to Phenomenology
- Feminist Philosophy
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism and Conservatism
- Aesthetics
- Religious Ethics
- Ethical Theory
- Applied Ethics
- Hume’s Empiricism
- Nietzsche and Existentialism
Sociology
- Contemporary Political Sociology
- Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Popular Culture, Media and Society
- Divisions and Inequality: Race and Ethnicity, Class and Religion
- Nature, Culture and Technology
- Sociology at Work
- Social Interaction and Conversation Analysis
- Doing Research
Year 3
Option modules
You will take a selection of option modules, examples of which may include:
Sociology
- Body and Society
- Advanced Social Theory
- Humans and Other Animals
- The Racial State
- Imagining Sociological Alternatives
- Sociology of the Future
- Cinema, Cities, and Historical Sociology
- Emotions in the Social World
- Morbidity, Culture, and Corpses
- The Global Transformation of Health
- Crime, Media and Culture
Philosophy
- 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
Dissertation
- Sociology Dissertation
or a combination of:
- further modules in Philosophy or Sociology
- electives from another department
- a language module
