BA (Hons) Philosophy and Ethics

We offer a wide range of exciting modules exploring contemporary topics of fundamental importance to contemporary society. In your first year you will study: Ideas, Identities and Contemporary Culture (core), What is the good life?, The Quest for Truth, Faith and Reason, Religions, Ethics and Violence, Do the Right Things, and The Problem of Human Nature. In your second year you will study the following modules: Work/Schools Placement, Philosophy of Religion, Bio-ethics, Freedom and Justice, Race, Gender and Class, The Origins and Transformations of Western Thought and Critique, Suspicion and Revolution. Or you may select up to two modules per semester from the following: Major Ethical Thinkers, Islamic Identities, Hinduism, Salvation, Buddhism, Living Judaism, Contextual Theology, Contemporary Interpretations of the Bible, The Bible and it's Ancient Culture. In your third year you will study: Dissertation (A major research project in an area of your choice), Thinking through the Holocaust, Political Theology, Advanced Issues in Ethics, and Philosophy and the Future. Or you may select up to two modules per semester from the following: Revisioning Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Islam: It's Theology, Philosophy and Spirituality, Comparative Religious Ethics, Theology and Film, The Theology and Ethics of Paul the Apostle, Trinity and Church. Some modules are subject to approval.