BA Philosophy with Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB/A*BB/A*AC IB: 35 points BTEC: DDD We consider a range of BTEC qualifications equivalent to 3 A Levels, or in combination with A Levels or other qualifications. For example: Distinction, Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Diploma plus A at A Level Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate plus AA at A level Distinction, Distinction in 2 BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificates plus A at A level
About this course
BA (Hons) in Philosophy with Sociology, a sociology and philosophy degree focused on human behaviour, social norms, morality, and social structures. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can undertake a short dissertation or long dissertation in the final year. The first year covers foundational ideas through compulsory modules such as Power and Consent, Philosophical Analysis, Cultivating a Sociological Imagination, Logic, and Theorising the Social World, alongside optional choices like Ethics and Metaphysics and Humans. The second year progresses with compulsory study in Philosophy and Society and Inequality, Intersectionality, and Resistance, while offering various optional subjects including Aesthetics, Applied Ethics, and Body and Society. Final-year options span topics such as Creating Sociological Alternatives, Action and Agency, Buddhism as Philosophy, and Causation and Laws.
Modules
- Power and Consent
- Philosophical Analysis
- Cultivating a Sociological Imagination
- Logic
- Theorising the Social World
- Ethics
- Metaphysics and Humans
- Philosophy and Society
- Inequality, Intersectionality, and Resistance
- Aesthetics
- Applied Ethics
- Being and Reason: Spinoza's Metaphysics
- Logic and Paradox
- Love, Law, and Solidarity: Recognition from Rousseau to Honneth
- Knowledge and the Social Sciences
- Metaphysics
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism and Conservatism
- Religious Ethics
- The Limits of Reason: Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
- Body and Society
- Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities
- Societies and the Climate Crisis
- Working in the Criminal Justice System
- Short Dissertation
- Long Dissertation
- Creating Sociological Alternatives
- Action and Agency
- Buddhism as Philosophy
- Causation and Laws
- Cognitive Anomalies, Decision-Making and Democracy
- Consciousness
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Experimental Philosophy: The Psychology of Philosophy
- Foundations of Maths
- German Idealism: Moral, Legal & Political Philosophy
- Happiness, Utility and Wellbeing
- Nine Artworks, Nine Philosophical Problems
- Philosophy of Christianity
- Philosophy of Physics
- Property and Self-Ownership
- The Nature of Time
- Theories of Social Justice: Rawls and Beyond
- Topics in Feminist Philosophy
- World and Mind
- Crime, Gender and Sexuality
- Morbidity, Culture and Corpses
- Spiritual Realities
- Talk at Work