Year 2
Compulsory module:
The Human Condition (20 credits)
The module will address issues and questions that occur at the ‘borderlands’ between Philosophy and Theology/Religion. The module will focus on: a) the human predicament as described in a number of selected religious and philosophical traditions; and b) the meaning and goal of human life, again, as understood in a number of selected religious or philosophical traditions.
Example optional modules may include (choose at least 40 credits in each group):
Group A (Theology and Religion)
- Dissertation Preparation (20 credits)
- Placement (20)
- Auschwitz in History and Memory (20)
- Life after Death (20)
- Sikhism (20)
- Global Islam (20)
- Science, Belief and Society (20)
- Religion and the Public Sphere (20)
Group B (Philosophy and Ethics)
- Elements of Logic and Metaphysics (20)
- Experience and Reason: Early Modern Philosophy (20)
- Feminist Philosophy (20)
- History of Analytic Philosophy (20)
- Sex, Ethics and Philosophy (20)
- Speaking of Things (20)
- The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change (20)
- The Ethics of Killing (20)
- The Mind-Body Problem (20)