BA English and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33; 32, with B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in English and Philosophy, a joint honours degree in English and Philosophy spanning literature, language, and philosophical inquiry. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking and Research Methods. Students can also choose modules from outside these subjects during the first year. The first year introduces foundational study through Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature, Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism, Sounds and Structures of English, Linguistic Theory, Writing Philosophy, and Reason and Argument. The second year progresses through Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a), Phonetics, First Language Acquisition, Ethics: From Theory to Practice, and Philosophy of the Arts. The final year centres on group research through Project Module 1 alongside optional study in areas such as early modern drama, historical pragmatics, and advanced syntax.
Modules
- Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature
- Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism
- Contemporary Literature
- Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre
- Wonders, Warriors, and Werewolves: Intro to Medieval Literature and Language
- Reading Theatre and Film
- Myth, Scripture and Story: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature
- Climate Crisis: Culture, Politics, Activism
- Darwin, Marx, Freud
- Sounds and Structures of English
- Linguistic Theory
- History of English
- Early Englishes
- Language and Creativity
- Living Englishes
- Writing Philosophy
- Reason and Argument
- Mind and World
- History of Philosophy
- Death and Killing
- Religion, Reason and Reality
- Ethics and Society
- Science, Medicine and Society
- Bodies, Sex and Desires
- Try a new subject: The flexible structure of your first year at Sheffield means that you also have the chance to experie
- Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a)
- English Works: Foundations
- Creative Writing Experiments
- Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Screen
- Hollywood Cinema
- English Works: Enhanced
- Chaucer
- Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible
- The Art and Politics of Hip Hop
- Phonetics
- First Language Acquisition
- Historical Linguistics
- Syntax
- Phonology
- The History of Persuasion
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and Cognition
- Exiles and Monsters: Reading Old English
- Narrative Experiments
- Ethics: From Theory to Practice
- Philosophy of the Arts
- Mind and Language
- Formal Logic
- Feminism
- Science and the Search for Reality
- The Philosophy of AI and Robotics
- Life Worth Living
- Social Justice Today
- Religion and the Good Life
- Global History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Education
- Knowing and Being
- Political Philosophy
- Project Module 1
- The Invention of Romanticism
- Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis
- Research Topics in Theatre and Film
- Mod Cons: Exploring the Long 20th Century
- Middlemarch
- The Idea of America
- Creative Writing: The Experimental Text
- Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature
- Fin de siècle Gothic
- Chaucer
- Life After Death? Romantic Poets and Writing the Afterlife
- Reading Animals
- Privilege and Subversion in Early Modern Drama, 1580-1700
- Advanced Syntax
- Historical Pragmatics
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Constructed Languages
- Second Language Acquisition
- Psychology of Language
- Project Module 2
- Language and Social Justice
- Communicating Philosophy
- Ethics and Belief
- Global Justice
- Memory and the Self
- The Science of Consciousness
- Pain, Pleasure, and Emotions
- Phenomenology
- Bodies and Souls
- Plato's Symposium
- Language, Speakers and the World