12 monthsProgramme duration
24,700 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Philosophy
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Our MA in Philosophy enables you to achieve a deep understanding of contemporary philosophical debates and gain advanced research and communication skills. You’ll explore a range of topics related to current ethical and social concerns and learn how to connect philosophical research to professional roles outside the university. This puts you in a strong position to enter a range of exciting careers, including research-based careers, or to apply for further study through a PhD.
You’ll join a supportive research community with diverse interests and expertise. This means you can choose from modules ranging across aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy, with a particular focus on contemporary research at the intersections of these areas.
To prepare you for the dissertation, you’ll learn how to plan and manage large research projects before developing your dissertation proposal. You’ll then have regular one-to-one meetings with your supervisor to help you develop and complete your dissertation project.
Throughout the programme you’ll develop a range of highly valued professional skills, including collaboration, effective communication and problem solving, and make meaningful connections between academic work and professional practice outside universities.
The programme will support your development of advanced skills in analysing problems, ideas, and arguments, and in writing clearly, precisely, and persuasively. It builds on your existing skills in these areas, whether you have developed these by studying philosophy or another discipline at undergraduate level.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Philosophy
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Our MA in Philosophy enables you to achieve a deep understanding of contemporary philosophical debates and gain advanced research and communication skills. You’ll explore a range of topics related to current ethical and social concerns and learn how to connect philosophical research to professional roles outside the university. This puts you in a strong position to enter a range of exciting careers, including research-based careers, or to apply for further study through a PhD.
You’ll join a supportive research community with diverse interests and expertise. This means you can choose from modules ranging across aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy, with a particular focus on contemporary research at the intersections of these areas.
To prepare you for the dissertation, you’ll learn how to plan and manage large research projects before developing your dissertation proposal. You’ll then have regular one-to-one meetings with your supervisor to help you develop and complete your dissertation project.
Throughout the programme you’ll develop a range of highly valued professional skills, including collaboration, effective communication and problem solving, and make meaningful connections between academic work and professional practice outside universities.
The programme will support your development of advanced skills in analysing problems, ideas, and arguments, and in writing clearly, precisely, and persuasively. It builds on your existing skills in these areas, whether you have developed these by studying philosophy or another discipline at undergraduate level.
Admission Requirements
In order to be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.
With your online application you will need to provide:
- A copy of your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:2 honours degree in a relevant subject area such as philosophy or a related discipline such as communication, English literature, history, language, law, modern languages, politics, psychology, religious studies, or social sciences or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
- A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 7.0 with 6.5 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
- If your degree is not in philosophy, you also need to provide an essay of 2000 words (maximum) that demonstrates skills in explanation, argumentation and critical analysis, on a topic of your choice.
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