University of York
Bachelor of Arts Honours in English and Philosophy
The Bachelor of Arts Honours in English and Philosophy in Language and Culture Studies is offered by University of York.
Program Length: 3 YEARS.
Bachelor of Arts Honours in English and Philosophy offered by the University of York
Every day is a new intellectual adventure.Combining English and Philosophy offers you one of the most wide-ranging and stimulating degrees.Encompassing almost every aspect of human thought and culture, this course will expose you to an array of ideas and ways of thinking about the world. Staff in both departments at York are world-renowned for their research, which covers every period, every major literary and philosophical genre, and all areas of the world.
Course contentThe English/Philosophy degree has a distinctly international perspective. You’ll cover an exciting range of literary and philosophical topics, from the classical era to the modern world.All combined course students take 120 credits each year, adding up to 360 credits across the course of your degree. In first and second year, you will split your studies equally between the English and Philosophy components of your degree. In your third year, it’s possible to vary the balance and devote more time to either subject, depending on your intellectual interests.Study abroadThere are opprtunities to study abroad during your course:Explore global opportunitiesYear 1In the first year of your degree, we’ll introduce you to the undergraduate study of English and Philosophy. The modules will give you the skills you need to start undertaking literary and philosophical research, and advice on how to combine the two disciplines.EnglishCore modulesYou'll take the following three modules in English, worth 20 credits each. These modules are designed to lay the foundation of literary study for your whole degree.Get a feel for the shape of literary history by studying works from the medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, and modern periods.Approaches to Literature I: Writing ModernityApproaches to Literature II: Other WorldsKey concepts is a year-long foundation module that provides you with important critical and methodological contexts for the study of literature, as well as an introduction to rhetoric and writing. In addition, you will be introduced to strategies for developing essay-writing skills, engaging with criticism and critical theory, and revising work to improve its fluency and persuasiveness, as part of the English department’s innovative Writing at York provision.Key Concepts: An Introduction to Genre, Theory, and Writing
PhilosophyCore modulesYou'll take a further 60 credits in Philosophy:Beginning Philosophy (10 credits) introduces a wide range of philosophical topics and the skills required to study at university level.Early Modern Philosophy (10 credits) guides you through work by philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries, addressing issues that are still actively debated.Reason and Argument B (10 credits) introduces you to the language of logic and how it can be used to clarify philosophical problems.Ethics (20 credits) explores the three main branches of moral philosophy: the nature of morality, ethical systems, and specific moral dilemmas.Introduction to Ancient Philosophy B (10 credits) examines the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
Academic integrity moduleIn addition to the above you will also need to complete the online Academic Integrity module.Year 2In the second year of your degree, you’ll choose from a range of intermediate modules across the English and Philosophy departments, taking 60 credits in each subject.EnglishOption modulesYou will choose from the same breathtaking range of English options as our single subject students. These include Critical Practice (20 credits) and our Intermediate Option Modules:Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature (20 credits)American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire (20 credits)Inventing Britain, 1700-1830 (20 credits)The Renaissance (20 credits)The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature (20 credits)Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901 (20 credits)These also include our World Literature offerings (30 credits each) and our Topic Modules (10 credits each).PhilosophyOption modulesIn Philosophy, you will choose from a range of Key Ideas modules. These modules look in more depth at topics in theoretical, value and the history of philosophy.Theoretical PhilosophyIntermediate Logic (20 credits)Metaphysics (20 credits)Philosophy of Language (20 credits)Philosophy of Mind (20 credits)Philosophy of Science (20 credits)
Value in PhilosophyAesthetics (20 credits)Applied Ethics (20 credits)Ethical Theory (20 credits)Feminist Philosophy (20 credits)Religious Ethics (20 credits)
History of PhilosophyAristotle (20 credits)Hume (20 credits)Kant (20 credits)Nietzsche (20 credits)Spinoza and Leibniz (20 credits)Year 3In your third year, you will take Philosophy and Literature (20 credits), a module designed specifically for this degree pathway and taught by a member of staff from each department. One of the distinctive features of the English/Philosophy degree at York, this advanced module is the culmination of your combined course programme; it explicitly draws together the range of critical and analytical skills you will have developed by studying both disciplines.EnglishOption modulesYou'll choose from our Advanced Option Modules (20 credits each) in English. These reflect the wide-ranging and cutting-edge research expertise of the Departmentand you can typically expect to choose from around 25 options on varied topics such as:American Independent Film (20 credits)Creative Writing: Contemporary Practice (20 credits)Modernism's Queer Spaces (20 credits)Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction (20 credits)The Villains of the Romantic Gothic (20 credits)
PhilosophyOption modulesYou’ll choose from a wide range of Philosophy’s current specialised modules. They include the following, among others:Consciousness (20 credits)Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (20 credits)Foundations of Maths (20 credits)From Marx to Critical Theory (20 credits)German Idealism: Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy (20 credits)Phenomenology and Psychiatry (20 credits)Philosophy of Art: Hume to Tolstoy (20 credits)Philosophy of Christianity (20 credits)Philosophy of Islam (20 credits)Philosophy of Law (York Law School) (20 credits)Philosophy of Physics (20 credits)Philosophy of Psychology (20 credits)Theories of Social Justice (20 credits)The Value and Meaning of Life (20 credits)Wittgenstein and Philosophy (20 credits)