DPT: Philosophy and Greek (MA Hons) (UTPHIGR)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory Philosophy courses, totalling 60 credits.

You will then need to take:

- Ancient Greek 1A and 1B; OR Ancient Greek 1C and 1D (40 Credits, Group A)
- 20 credits from: Greek World courses, an 'outside' course from across the University, or a 'Challenge' course (20 credits, Group B)

Compulsory courses

Morality and Value

Logic 1

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

Course options

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

AND

Either of these Classics courses are suitable for someone taking this degree programme.

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

You can take 20 'outside' credits (usually 1 course), which can be a course from subject areas across the University. You need to select this course to be enroled on it. Some courses have prerequisites that you will need to meet to take the course.

You can only select a Level 7 and 8 course from Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y. Only 40 credits of level 7 courses are permitted across Years 1 and 2.

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory Philosophy and Greek courses, totalling 60 credits.

Progression to Honours (Year 3) requires:

- An average of 50% across both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt
- A pass of 40% or above in both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt.
- An pass of 50% or above in Greek 2B, and Greek 2A OR Greek 2a Ex-Beginners, achieved at first attempt

You will then need to take:

- Ancient Greek 2A or Ancient Greek 2A: Ex-Beginners (20 credits)
- 40 credits in any combination from a choice between: Philosophy of Science 1, Introduction to the History of Philosophy A, an 'outside' courses from across the University, or a 'Challenge' course (40 credits, Group A)

Compulsory courses

Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed 1st time

Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed 1st time

Greek 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

AND

You may optionally take Philosophy of Science 1.

Philosophy of Science 1

AND

You may optionally take Introduction to the History of Philosophy A.

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

AND

You can to take 0-40 credits (0-2 courses) of 'outside' courses, which can be from subject areas across the University. You need to select these courses to be enroled on them. Some courses have prerequisites that you will need to meet to take the course.

You can only select Level 7 and 8 courses from Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y. Only 40 credits of level 7 courses are permitted across Years 1 and 2.

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

You will automatically be enroled on:
- Philosophy Dissertation Information Course (0 credits). This is required to take a dissertation in Philosophy in Year 4, but does not preclude taking a Classics dissertation.
-Greek Language (A) (20 credits)

You will then need to take:

- 40-80 credits (2-3 courses) of Year 3 Philosophy courses (from any category).
- 40-60 credits (2-3 courses) of Year 3 Ancient Greek courses

You can either split your overall credits evenly - 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 in Greek (including Greek Language), or opt for an 80-40 split, with 2 courses in one subject and 4 in the other. In both cases, you must take 120 credits in total.

Compulsory courses

Philosophy Dissertation Information Course

Greek Language (A)

Course options

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

AND

Normative theory

Late Modern Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

AND

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Religion

Metaphysics

Logic 2: Modal Logics

Science, Nature, and Social Values

Topics in Mind and Cognition

Philosophy of Time

AND

Normative theory

Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Social Philosophy

Philosophy of Economics

Moral Philosophy

Philosophy of Technology

Venturing into Black Philosophy: From the American Negro Academy to the Edinburgh School

Philosophy and the Emotions

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

You will need to take:

- a 40-credit Classics dissertation, an independent Philosophy dissertation, or two Philosophy coursework dissertations (2x 20 credit courses) (Group A)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 4 Philosophy courses (Group B)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 4 Ancient Greek courses (Group B)

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

Course options

You must select a dissertation in Philosophy or Classics.

There are two options in Philosophy - either an independent dissertation or two coursework dissertations.

An independent Philosophy dissertation is a a single 8,000-word dissertation. You should select Philosophy Dissertation (PHIL10026) for this option.

The Philosophy coursework dissertation option involves submitting 2x 5,000-word essays in place of the standard assessment for two additional Year 4 Philosophy Honours courses. To take the coursework dissertation, you must select two courses from the Year 4 course options listed below (within Group A). These courses are attended as normal but will not count towards your optional credit total.

Classics Dissertation

Dissertation in Philosophy

If you are taking the Philosophy coursework dissertation, you must select two courses from this group (see advice above). These must be in addition to the courses selected in Group B.

Philosophy and the Environment

Self, Agency and the Will

Free Will and Moral Responsibility

The Nature of Moral Understanding

Ancient Theories of Mind

Philosophy of Time Travel

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness

The Computational Mind

Environmental Ethics

The Philosophy of Fiction

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation

Advanced Topics in Metaphysics

Philosophy of Information

Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others

Ethics of Work and Labour

Philosophy of Death and Dying

Indian Philosophies of Mind and Language

Islamic Philosophy

Philosophy of Action

Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Meaning and Fulfilment

Advanced Topics in Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy of Risk

Philosophical Naturalism

Science and Realism, a Historical Look

Advanced Topics in Aesthetics

Buddhist Philosophy

Philosophy of Animals

Knowledge in a Multicultural World

Algorithmic Bias

Gender and Beauty

Consciousness, Life and Mind

Measurement

Time and the Mind

Philosophy of Language Models and Virtual Worlds

Philosophy of Science (Honours)

Representation and Reality

AND

-Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.

-Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (B)

AND

Meta-Ethics

Ancient Theories of Mind

Philosophy of Time Travel

Aristotle

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness

The Computational Mind