BA History and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including an A in either History or Classical Civilisation IB: 35 points, including 6 in History at Higher Level BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
About this course
BA (Hons) BA (Hons) History and Philosophy is an undergraduate degree spanning History and Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods. The course culminates in a History Dissertation and a Philosophy Short Dissertation. The first year covers core foundations through Philosophical Analysis, Knowledge and Perception, Knowledge and Beliefs in World History, and Evidence and Methods. The second year focuses on Historical Thinking alongside various options in historical periods and philosophical traditions. The final year involves independent research through dissertations and a wide selection of optional modules covering topics such as Buddhism as Philosophy, Philosophy of Physics, Empires, and Violence.
Modules
- Philosophical Analysis
- Knowledge and Perception
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- Logic
- Ethics
- Metaphysics and Humans
- Historical Thinking
- Aesthetics
- Applied Ethics
- Being and Reason: Spinoza's Metaphysics
- Knowledge and the Social Sciences
- Religious Ethics
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism and Conservatism
- Metaphysics
- Logic and Paradox
- Love, Law, and Solidarity: Recognition from Rousseau to Honneth
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Science
- The Limits of Reason: Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
- Empire and Cultural Exchange in Asia 1500-1700
- Black Radicalism
- Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
- Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
- Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
- Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
- Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
- Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
- Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
- Catherine the Great
- Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
- Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
- Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
- Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
- Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
- Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
- Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
- History Dissertation
- Philosophy Short Dissertation
- Action and Agency
- Buddhism as Philosophy
- Causation and Laws
- Cognitive Anomalies, Decision-Making and Democracy
- Consciousness
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Experimental Philosophy: The Philosophy of Psychology
- Foundations of Mathematics
- German Idealism: Moral, Legal & Political Philosophy
- Mind and Morality
- Nine Art Works, Nine Philosophical Problems
- Philosophy of Christianity
- Philosophy of Physics
- Property and Self-ownership
- Theories of Social Justice: Rawls and Beyond
- The Nature of Time
- Topics in Feminist Philosophy
- World and Mind
- Empires
- Violence
- Animals
- Commemorations
- Travel
- Beauty
- Communisms
- The First Islamic Empire
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
- Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
- The French Wars of Religion
- Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
- Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
- Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
- Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
- Mao and Maoism
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England
- Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
- Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
- Joan of Arc
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, & Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
- Black British History and Decolonisation