The third year
Going deeper into the subjectBy this point in your studies, you will have received a thorough grounding in a host of important areas of philosophy. You will therefore be ready to encounter philosophical ideas from the forefront of the subject. The third year of your Philosophy degree marks the point when everything comes together: your increased knowledge of the subject combines with your increased aptitude for independent critical thought, yielding the ability sharply to assess philosophical - and non-philosophical - forms of reasoning. By the end of your Philosophy degree, you will have acquired powerful intellectual skills which you will exercise for the rest of your life. |
Research-led modulesOur third year modules are characteristically shaped by the research interests of the person teaching the module. The unusually wide research expertise present in our department means that our third year modules - which generally include between 15 and 20 different choices - range very widely indeed. They include modules focusing on traditional general areas of importance, such as metaphysics, epistemology, the mind, moral philosophy and political philosophy, and ones concentrating on major philosophers and philosophical movements, such as Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and Pragmatism. But they also include modules concentrating on more recent areas of concern, such as feminism and the philosophy of film. |
AssessmentStudents may be assessed in a couple of ways for our third year modules: they may submit a coursework essay during the relevant semester and then take an exam during the exam period at the end of the semester; or they may submit a single long essay for the module. (Single honours Philosophy students may choose to submit up to three long essays, while Dual honours Philosophy students may choose to submit up to two long essays.) We find that the flexibility provided by the long essay option is welcomed by a lot of third year students; by the third year of your studies in Philosophy you may well feel ready to make your own contribution to the subject. |
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