BA Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Entry requirements
A level: BCC IB: IB Diploma with minimum 26 points overall or 104 UCAS Tariff points from three Higher Level subjects. If you plan to meet the Level 2 course requirements through your IB Diploma you will need to achieve Higher Level 4 or Standard Level 5 in English
About this course
BA (Hons) in Philosophy, exploring questions across ethics, metaphysics, and the history of Western thought. Core topics include Research Methods and Ethics & Professional Practice. The two pathways share a common first year, with a placement or study abroad option available in the third year. Final-year students complete an independent project taking the form of a dissertation, podcast series, or video essay.
Modules
- Changing Nature: Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Politics
- Interactive Learning Skills and Communication
- Existentialism and the Fate of Philosophy
- Visions of the Good Life
- A Critical Introduction to the History of Philosophy
- Fit for the Future
- Gender, Race and Sexuality
- Metaphysics: In Search of the Real
- From Making It To Faking It: The Philosophy Of Technology
- Nietzsche and Sartre
- Ethics and its Critics
- Political and Revolutionary Philosophy
- Independent Project
- Alternative Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion
- Ethics and the Anthropocene
- Beyond Beauty, Beyond the Body: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of the Body
- Philosophy of Education
- The Art of Dying Well