BA Philosophy and Sociology
About this course
BA in Philosophy and Sociology, a sociology and philosophy degree centred on examining the human condition through philosophical inquiry and sociological investigation. Core topics include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Statistics. Students can tailor their studies by choosing from a broad range of optional modules across their second and third years. The first year introduces foundational subjects through compulsory modules such as Knowledge and Reality 1, Evidence and Argument 1, Philosophy of Morality, and Social Analysis, with options available in areas like Asian Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. The second year builds on this with compulsory studies in Philosophy of Mind 1, Metaphysics, Moral Agency in Social Context, and Theoretical Sociology. Optional choices span diverse areas including phenomenology, symbolic logic, digital society, and data analysis in social science. Final year options allow further specialisation across philosophical and sociological topics.
Modules
- Knowledge and Reality 1
- Knowledge and Reality 2
- Evidence and Argument 1
- Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
- Philosophy of Morality
- Contemporary Society: Themes, Perspectives and Case Studies
- Social Analysis
- Philosophical Problems 1
- Introduction to Asian Philosophy
- Philosophy of Film
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Media and Society
- Population and Society
- Introduction to Social Data
- Philosophy of Mind 1
- Body and Mind
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophical Research
- Moral Agency in Social Context
- Theoretical Sociology
- Knowing the Social World
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Symbolic Logic
- Philosophy of Science
- Aesthetics
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Philosophy of Law
- The Deep Past, History and Humanity
- Ethics of Emerging Technologies
- Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy
- Plato's Dialogues
- Philosophy of Music
- Philosophy of Games
- Digital Worlds and Social AI
- The Holocaust: Explanation, Understanding and Responsibility
- Cyborg Studies
- Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities
- Anthropology of the State
- Anthropology of Forced Migration
- Animals and Society
- Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice
- On Violence
- Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Power and Domination
- Pharmaceutical Cultures
- Sociology of Family and Gender
- Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance
- Deception
- Digital Society
- Data Science in Society
- Aging, Health and Society
- Science, Technology and Society
- Politics of Food and Farming
- Addiction
- Bodies and Society
- BioSocieties
- Data Justice and Surveillance Capitalism
- Social Networks
- Environments and Societies
- Data Analysis in Social Science 2
- Data Analysis in Social Science 3
- Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences