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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026

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Degree Programme Table: Philosophy and Theology (MA Hons) (UTPHITH)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students who do not pass Logic before progressing to Honours may apply to transfer to the MA Theology.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Morality and Value

Must be passed

PHIL08015 20 credits
Logic 1

Must be passed

PHIL08004 20 credits
Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

Must be passed

PHIL08019 20 credits
Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar
DIVI08028 20 credits

Course options

Optional Level 8 Divinity courses excluding Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding
DIVI08001 20 credits
The Bible in Literature
DIVI08003 20 credits
Buddhism in Global Contexts
DIVI08004 20 credits
Introducing Biblical Hebrew
DIVI08005 20 credits
Introducing New Testament Greek
DIVI08006 20 credits
Paul and His Letters
DIVI08010 20 credits
Jesus and the Gospels
DIVI08012 20 credits
Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
DIVI08013 20 credits
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A
DIVI08014 20 credits
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B
DIVI08015 20 credits
Studying Religions
DIVI08018 20 credits
Global Indigenous Religions
DIVI08021 20 credits
Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories
DIVI08022 20 credits
Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes
DIVI08023 20 credits
Ethics and Society
DIVI08024 20 credits
Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates
DIVI08025 20 credits
The God(s) of the Philosophers: Proposals and Problems
DIVI08026 20 credits
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
DIVI08027 20 credits
Intermediate New Testament Greek
DIVI08030 20 credits
Introducing Sanskrit
DIVI08032 20 credits
Intermediate Sanskrit
DIVI08033 20 credits
Patriarchs, Prophets and Poets: History, Theology and Literature of the Hebrew Bible
DIVI08034 20 credits
Morality through the Social Sciences
DIVI08035 20 credits
Introducing Classical Tibetan
DIVI08036 20 credits
AND

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

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to T, W and Y
Notes:
Students can take further courses from the School of Divinity, or choose courses from other Schools.

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Notes:
In order to progress into Year 3 of this programme, you must:

- Pass both Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R) with a mark of 40% or above and;
- Achieve an average of 50% across both MML and K&R.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed

PHIL08014 20 credits
Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed

PHIL08017 20 credits

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 to T, W and Y

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to T, W and Y
Notes:
An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Notes:
During Year 3 students must prepare for their dissertation. Further information about this will be provided.

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

Course options

Group B

Select between 40 and 80 credits in this group.

Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

Select between 40 and 80 credits from Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity
AND

Philosophy Year 3 courses - Theoretical Philosophy

Select between 0 and 80 credits of the following courses
Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10007 20 credits
Metaphysics
PHIL10155 20 credits
Logic 2: Modal Logics
PHIL10162 20 credits
Topics in Mind and Cognition
PHIL10174 20 credits
Late Modern Philosophy
PHIL10175 20 credits
Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10181 20 credits
Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10182 20 credits
Philosophy of Time
PHIL10225 20 credits
Philosophy of Technology
PHIL10231 20 credits
AND

Group C

Select between 40 and 80 credits in this group.

Philosophy Year 3 courses - Practical Philosophy

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Applied Ethics
PHIL10017 20 credits
Normative theory
PHIL10078 20 credits
Political Philosophy
PHIL10093 20 credits
Aesthetics
PHIL10117 20 credits
Social Philosophy
PHIL10204 20 credits
Moral Philosophy
PHIL10213 20 credits
Feminist Philosophy
PHIL10214 20 credits
Philosophy of Technology
PHIL10231 20 credits
AND

Group D

Select exactly credits in this group.

Philosophy Year 3 courses - History of Philosophy

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Political Philosophy
PHIL10093 20 credits
Late Modern Philosophy
PHIL10175 20 credits
Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10181 20 credits
Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10182 20 credits
Japanese Philosophy
PHIL10222 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

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

Please be aware that, unlike single honours Philosophy students, all joint honours Philosophy and Theology students must take the full-length Dissertation in either Philosophy or Theology and Religious Studies.

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

Course options

Philosophy and Theology (MA) Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Theology and Religious Studies: Final Dissertation
DIVI10001 40 credits
Dissertation in Philosophy
PHIL10026 40 credits
AND

Level 10 courses in the School of Divinity

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

Philosophy Year 4 courses

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Meta-Ethics
PHIL10019 20 credits
Moral Psychology
PHIL10023 20 credits
Philosophy and the Environment
PHIL10064 20 credits
Self, Agency and the Will
PHIL10082 20 credits
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHIL10090 20 credits
Ancient Theories of Mind
PHIL10103 20 credits
Philosophy of Time Travel
PHIL10125 20 credits
Philosophy: Fun and Games
PHIL10143 20 credits
Puzzles and Paradoxes
PHIL10156 20 credits
Belief, Desire and Rational Choice
PHIL10159 20 credits
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL10167 20 credits
Epistemology and Evidence Law
PHIL10185 20 credits
Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others
PHIL10188 20 credits
Philosophy of Friendship
PHIL10195 20 credits
Islamic Philosophy
PHIL10197 20 credits
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
PHIL10200 20 credits
Meaning and Fulfilment
PHIL10212 20 credits
Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism
PHIL10216 20 credits
Philosophy of Risk
PHIL10219 20 credits
Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL10229 20 credits
Consciousness, Life and Mind
PHIL10238 20 credits
Epistemic Injustice
PHIL10249 20 credits
Work, Justice, and Freedom: Simone Weil
PHIL10250 20 credits
Mind, World, and Language: Wittgenstein
PHIL10251 20 credits
Anti-colonial approaches to Cognitive Science
PHIL10254 20 credits
God and gods in ancient philosophy
PHIL10255 20 credits
Philosophy of Music
PHIL10256 20 credits
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
PHIL10257 20 credits
Topics in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
PHIL10259 20 credits
The Birth of Modern Ethics
PHIL10260 20 credits
Topics in Aesthetics
PHIL10261 20 credits
Topics in Feminist Philosophy
PHIL10263 20 credits
Readings in Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10267 20 credits
Information, Control, Society
PHIL10268 20 credits
Imperial Feminisms: The Anti-Colonial Examination of Gender and white Womanhood from the 19th Century to Present
PHIL10269 20 credits
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