Philosophy and Literature (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad) BA (Hons)

Our five-year BA Philosophy and Literature (including foundation year and year abroad), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the four-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance. This five-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study, plus a study abroad year. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module. Many employers seek graduates with the critical thinking skills to solve practical problems, both logically and creatively. Our BA Philosophy and Literature trains you to do this and provides you with a rigorous training in both philosophy and literature. Our wide-ranging and flexible curriculum embraces different traditions of philosophical thought, and explores English literature through several genres and periods. Our philosophical strengths lie in the areas of ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and European philosophy (including critical theory, phenomenology, and existentialism). Meanwhile our academics from our Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies are award-winning poets, novelists, playwrights and writers. We're proud of our literary legacy and over the years we've been home to Nobel Prize winners, Booker Prize winners and Pulitzer Prize winners.You spend your third year studying abroad allowing you to experience other cultures and languages, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable, and organised.