Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Whether your first degree was in philosophy or you are transitioning from another discipline, this degree will develop your philosophical understanding and enhance your research skills.
Our Philosophy MA is designed to offer a coherent but flexible programme of study, with modules and topics complementing each other to support specialisation - all while ensuring a strong foundation for career success.
You’ll get to grips with philosophy at its most forward looking, and immerse yourself in one or more methodological traditions. Optional modules cover both theoretical and practical philosophy, giving you the opportunity to specialise in political theory.
You’ll sharpen your arguments and critical thinking skills as you engage in debates over pressing real world issues, and on deep conceptual questions relating to thought, language, knowledge and the ultimate nature of reality.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject.
Our Philosophy MA is designed equally to prepare you to continue to a PhD in philosophy (as many students do) or to enhance your career prospects outside of academia.
We offer support and advice for students who decide to apply for a PhD and our postgraduate training seminars include sessions on PhD funding and on non-academic jobs for philosophers.
If you're interested in non-academic career routes, this course will help you develop and enhance a range of crucial transferable skills (for example, research writing, project organisation, critical thinking) while developing a deeper understanding of the many fascinating and important questions at the heart of philosophical inquiry. These skills will put you in a strong position when it comes to finding employment.
Our graduates work in teaching, law, social work, computing, the civil service, journalism, paid charity work, business, insurance and accountancy.
In the Philosophy MA, you will deepen your understanding of philosophy in core modules that explore different philosophical traditions and approaches, and engage with new directions in philosophical research.
You will have the opportunity to choose from a range of optional modules that may cover thought, language and the world, ethics and practical philosophy, and political theory.
You will also work on a dissertation where you will develop your own research project with the support of a dedicated supervisor, culminating in a major piece of independent research.
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