BA English and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6 (English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English and Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. In philosophy, students engage with historical thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Marx, while studying formal logic and critical thinking.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Philosophy and The Good Life
- Introductory Logic
- Philosophy and Human Nature
- Perspectives on Politics
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Knowledge and Reality
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Modern Political Thought
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Moral Theories
- History of Philosophy
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- America's Aftermaths
- Philosophy of Race
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Contemporary Political Philoso
- Philosophy of Religion
- Televising the Victorians
- Language in the Media
- Dissertation
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Applied Ethics
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Philosophy for Children
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Philosophy of Technology and Environment
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now