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You will also engage in independent reading and research, with specially designed worksheets and assignments to help you to do this most effectively. All Level 1 and 2 students have a tutor who leads the weekly tutorial discussion and who is there to help you if you need advice.
For single Honours students the dissertation in Level 4 is the high point, where you put forward and defend a thesis in an area of philosophy of your choice. Recent dissertation topics have involved music, film, the environment, gender, law, evolutionary theory, artificial intelligence, photography, literature and theatre.
Level 1 begins with modules in the history of philosophy and political philosophy. You will also take a module in critical thinking, which will develop your skills of argument and analysis. These modules are followed in Level 2 by courses in the history of philosophy, ethics and aesthetics. You can then specialise in Levels 3 and 4 through different options including modules on film, literature, politics, ethics, and philosophy of mind.
You will have the opportunity to study with experts in these fields and to work with them on major philosophers such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Bergson, Badiou and Deleuze.
Assessment in philosophy is by coursework essays, tutorial performance, exams and dissertations. We take full advantage of the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, MyDundee: on some modules students write online journals, post minutes of tutorials, or take part in online discussions.
what our students say The critical skills you gain can be applied to everything from music to neuroscience. I chose Dundee because the programme is innovative and strongly interdisciplinary; while small enough to give you time to regularly discuss topics with lecturers and fellow students.
3rd year student, MA (Hons) Philosophy
programme content • typical degree programme example Please refer to the MA degree structure and overview on page 135.
MA Honours degree Advanced entry MA Honours degree Level 1
A total of 6 modules, including at least one of: > Plato and the Good Life
> Descartes, Thought and Reality
Level 2
A total of 6 modules, including at least one of:
> Hume and Recent European Philosophy, Problems of the Self*
> Aesthetics and Kant Level 3
A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours)
A selection of the following modules will be available in any one year:
> Aesthetics of the Sublime*
> Foucault, Power and Violence*
> Gender, Feminism and Political Theory
> Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason*
> Knowledge and Mind > Logic and Paradox > Philosophies of History* > Philosophy and Antigone
> Question of Vision in Art and Philosophy*
> Spinoza and Free Will* Note: For details of Film Studies modules (for MA Philosophy and Film) please see English/Film Studies on page 88.
Students on the European Philosophy programme must take ‘Hume and Recent European Philosophy’ at Level 2 and specialise in European Philosophy at Levels 3 and 4. European Philosophy modules are marked with an asterisk*.
Level 4
A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours)
A selection of the following modules will be available in any one year:
> Dissertation (compulsory for single Honours students)
> Deleuze* > Marx’s Capital
> Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil*
> Philosophy of Peace & War > Philosophy of Time > Thinking Film*
> Understanding, Dialogue and Interpretation*
> Wittgenstein
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