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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022

Information in the Degree Programme Tables may still be subject to change in response to Covid-19

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Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Notes:

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

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Level 8 courses in the School of Divinity

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 8 courses in the School of Divinity
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y


Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Notes:
For entry to honours, students much achieve (1) an *average* of 50% at the first sitting across the mandatory Philosophy courses taken in the second year, ie Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R); and (2) a minimum of 40% in each of these courses (MML and K&R) achieved at the first sitting.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Level 8 courses in the School of Divinity

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 8 courses in the School of Divinity
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y


Year 3 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students are required to pass the dissertation component in their final year in order to be awarded an honours degree.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students who plan to undertake a Philosophy dissertation must complete this dissertation preparation course in year 3.
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 3 only _ Including History

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
It is strongly recommended by Philosophy that students in year 3 select courses that are 'usually taken in year 3'
AND

Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Philosophy Honours Year 3 only _ Including History

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
It is strongly recommended by Philosophy that students in year 3 select courses that are 'usually taken in year 3'
AND

Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students are required to pass DIVI10001 Theology & Religious Studies: Final Dissertation or PHIL10026 Dissertation in Philosophy in order to be awarded an honours degree.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
It is strongly recommended by Philosophy that students in year 4 select courses that are 'usually taken in year 4'
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School of Divinity- Philosophy and Theology (MA) - Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Where the dissertation is taken in Philosophy, students must register for the dissertation completion course and write one 8000 word essay on a topic to be arranged with the department. All students who take the dissertation in Philosophy, must complete the Philosophy Dissertation course in year 3

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