DPT: Philosophy and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTPHIET)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Morality and Value

Logic 1

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

Philosophy of Science 1

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed 1st time

Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed 1st time

Literary Studies 2A: English Literature in the World, 1380-1788

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Literary Studies 2B: English Literature in the World, post-1789

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Philosophy of Science 1

AND

Students CANNOT take Introduction to the History of Philosophy A (PHIL08019) if they have already taken Introduction to the History of Philosophy (PHIL08018).

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

AND

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Entry into honours requires (1) an *average* of 50% across both the mandatory Philosophy courses standardly taken in the second year, Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R) achieved at the first attempt and (2) a minimum of 40% in each course (MML and K&R) achieved at the first attempt; also required, a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 2A and Literary Studies 2B.

Compulsory courses

Philosophy Dissertation Information Course

Course options

This must be an English Literature Honours option course

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Ideology and Literature

Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America

Body in Literature

Novel and the Collapse of Humanism

Mystery and Horror

Working Class Representations

Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion

Edinburgh in Fiction/Fiction in Edinburgh

George Orwell and the Politics of Literature

Black American Fiction

Writing for Theatre: An Introduction

Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940

AND

This must be an English Literature Honours option course

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Creative Writing Part 2: Prose

Shakespeare: Modes and Genres

The Black Atlantic

Poetry, Politics and Place

Contemporary British Drama

'We are [not] Amused': Victorian Comic Literature

American Innocence

Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'

The Making of Modern Fantasy

Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature

Reading Science Fiction

Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century

AND

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Religion

Themes in Epistemology

Metaphysics

Logic 2: Modal Logics

Topics in Mind and Cognition

Philosophy, Science and Policy

Philosophy of Time

AND

Applied Ethics

Normative theory

Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Philosophy of Well-Being

Social Philosophy

Moral Philosophy

Feminist Philosophy

Philosophy of Technology

AND

Normative theory

Late Modern Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Japanese Philosophy

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Honours degrees must include at least 40 credits of dissertation work.

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

Course options

A dissertation MUST be taken in Final Year in either Philosophy or English Literature. Where the dissertation is taken in Philosophy, students can either do a single long 8000 word dissertation, or two 5000 word essays ( short dissertations). If the two 5000 word essays are selected students should choose two courses from Philosophy Honours Programme Collection, ROU_I_UTPHIECY4_10, as available.

English Literature Dissertation

Dissertation in Philosophy