英语与哲学文学学士联合荣誉学士

课程模块Modules

• 年一Year one
• 年二Year two
• Year three

24 modules

• philosophy of language – what is truth? Is truth relative? Does language create reality?
• the variety of conceptions of ultimate reality
• goals for the spiritual life
• 自然宗教实践the nature of religious experience
• the relations of religion and morality
• explanations of suffering and evil
• human nature and continuing existence after death
• atheists - Feuerbach, Nietzsche
• Buddhists - Śāntideva, Dōgen, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Christians - Augustine, Pascal, Weil
• Hindus - such as the writers of the Upanisads and Shankara
• Jews - Spinoza, Buber
• Muslims - Mulla Sadra, Nasr
• Taoists - Zhuangzi
• What is oppression?
• What is gender oppression?
• How does this intersect with race, disability, class, sexuality, and other axes of oppression?
• What is freedom?
• How does attention to gender affect the way we understand freedom?
• What is state violence and what functions does it serve?
• How can we make sense of gendered violence?
• What forms of violence are normalised and legitimised in dominant discourses?
• Should there be a distinction between the public and the private?
• Does it make sense to think of our personal lives as ‘political’?
• ancient Greek tragedy
• 中世纪英语戏剧medieval English drama
• Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• 修复阶段the Restoration stage
• 19th century naturalism
• political theatre of Brecht
• close reading
• constructing an argument
• handling critical material
• introducing you to key critical questions about literary form, production and reception
• Modern views of human nature, including the impact of evolutionary theory and psychology
• Human nature as an ideological construct
• The challenge of deriving human values from human facts
• Biological determinism and transcendence
• Religious and secular approaches to the meaning of life
• The difference between the meaning of life and meaning in life
• Nihilism and its implications
• Objective versus subjective approaches to meaning
• How a meaningful life relates to wellbeing, education, work, recreation, and authenticity
• 数字职场传播digital workplace communication
• 语言与法学language and the law
• 健康传播health communication
• 企业传播corporate communication
• political communication and intercultural communication across continents
• Kingship and authority
• Gender politics and marginalised voices
• Race and nation
• 战争与创伤War and trauma
• Class and power
• Explore topics such as privacy, surveillance, power and representation
• Learn how modern technology can replicate historical biases and ignore contemporary struggles
• Gain the background and context to contemporary issues on data and society
• Question the limits we place on technology in our world
• Explore how the arts and humanities shape, direct and protect against the way data is used
• Develop your skills and apply them to case studies
• See how your work can highlight issues and solve problems
• Understand how data analysis allows us to create narratives that inspire and drive change
• Virtual reality renditions of historical photographs
• 沉浸式博物馆体验Immersive museum experiences
• Audio installations to share stories about migration and sustainability
• Interactive events to inspire young people about languages and cultures past and present
• The variety of human responses to sickness
• How ideas about illness are expressed across the world
• Drug resistant bacteria and mutations of viruses
• Examine Western culture’s way of defining the ‘environment’ and our relationship with nature
• Look at the diverse ways in which different cultures imagine nature
• Learn about debates around the Anthropocene, the era of humanity’s marked impact on the environment
• Examine the controversies and disputes that have emerged about our relationship with nature
• Causality
• 统计学Statistics
• Bias
• 内容分析Content analysis
• 语言Language

39 modules

• Do we really perceive a world beyond our minds?
• What are the theories of perception and perceptual consciousness?
• How do we distinguish different senses – what makes seeing different from hearing?
• Can our perceptions be biased? Do our prejudices change the way we see things?
• Is dreaming perceiving, or does it belong to another category of mind like imagining?
• understand the main positions in the philosophy of perception
• analyse and evaluate rival views on these topics
• Objects: concrete vs. abstract; existence and nothingness
• Sets and mereology
• Properties, Property bearers, Relations
• States of affairs and non-mereological composition
• Modality (including counterfactuals) and possible worlds
• Time, persistence, change, and the non-present
• Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism the relationship between morality and religion
• etiquette, ethics and aesthetics
• the family and moral life
• social and political philoosophy
• animals, natural environments, and human flourishing
• the nature of ultimate reality and the good life
• the relation of Asian philosophies to the Western tradition
• What is art?
• Is there a relationship between art and ethics?
• What is the relationship between art and emotion?
• have a good awareness of many of the critical debates in the philosophy of art
• recognise and judge for yourself the strengths and weaknesses of arguments on the issues
• utopian literature (through Gulliver’s Travels)
• the developing novel (such as Moll Flanders and Pride and Prejudice)
• how irony works
• what is self-expression
• The way that language is used by people online to create communities
• How the mainstream media uses language to represent particular groups, such as immigrants or gay people
• The ways that language is used in particular contexts, such as the workplace
• How advertisers use language to persuade us that we need their products
• The relationship between language, gender and sexuality
• 如何语言can使用信号人士种族或族裔How language can be used to signal a person’s race or ethnicity
• Literature can feel rich, or pacy, or suspenseful, or beautiful
• Texts can make you laugh, cry, feel afraid, excited, or nostalgic
• Fictional people like characters can be imagined
• We can get inside the thoughts, feelings, and hear the speech of characters, narrators and authors
• Imagined worlds are built, and how their atmosphere is brought to life
• You as a reader are manipulated or connect actively with literary worlds and people
• How globalisation has increased bilingualism in the world
• How languages are learnt
• How students differ from each other in their mastery of languages
• How the psychology of the classroom environment impacts the effectiveness of learning
• How to motivate students and create good learner groups
• Konstantin Stanislavski
• Vsevolod Meyerhold
• Bertolt Brecht
• Antonin Artaud
• Jacques Lecoq
• Ensemble physical theatre makers such as DV8, Gecko & Frantic Assembly
• What makes a play worth watching?
• Why do audiences enjoy watching bad things happening?
• How are minority groups represented on the stage?
• How might the stage advance the cause of gender or sexual equality?
• What role does social class or nationality play in the workings of theatrical culture?
• consider their reception and afterlife
• focus on the textual and performance effects created
• place the texts alongside the work of relevant theorists and practitioners
• applying ethical reasoning to major practical themes
• debating contemporary and historical problem cases with appreciation for the perspectives of others
• 评估关键创意小学与中学文学evaluating key ideas in primary and secondary literature
• What makes certain actions right or wrong?
• What is the relation between right action and good character?
• What is it to hold someone morally responsible in the first place?
• How might African accounts of humanity radicalise concepts of gender?
• Are Africana cosmological narratives able to counter heteronormativity?
• Can the philosophy of ubuntu promote environmental justice?
• Can black humanity be affirmed in ways that refuse the social death of anti-black racism?
• contemporary views relating to the nature of aesthetics
• the relationship between artworks and other objects of aesthetic concern
• philosophical issues surrounding aesthetics
• critical discussion and evaluation of different philosophical views of aesthetics
• objectivity versus the subjectivity of aesthetic evaluations
• epistemology of aesthetic judgement
• 美学自然aesthetics of nature
• aesthetics of human beaut
• aesthetics of everyday life
• the physical environments of the first professional indoor and outdoor theatres
• the political and institutional contexts that shaped dramatic production
• an interrogation of the ‘post-consensus novel’
• an exploration of postcolonial texts which represent the transatlantic slave trade
• the cultural politics of late twentieth-century and twenty-first century Scottish literature
• formal analysis and literary innovations in Britain
• temporalities and the representation of time
• issues of gender, race and class
• histories of colonialism and slavery
• national traditions and politics of state
• 国家与城市the country and the city
• postmodernism
• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 媒体media
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills
• Discuss how activism and advocacy can become part of academic work
• 艺术art
• 电影film
• 文学literature
• archive materials and documents
• 音乐与表演music and performance

Arts Work Placement Module (Engaged Arts)

• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 媒体media
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills

36 modules

• How should human beings interact with the non-human natural world?
• Is nature intrinsically valuable, or does it possess value only by being valuable to us?
• the moral status of animals
• the ethics of zoos
• responsibility for climate change
• whether there is any connection between the twin oppressions of women and nature
• the environmental impact of having children
• the ethics of restoring nature after it has been damaged by human development
• experiences of being chronically ill
• 精神病学与心理健康psychiatry and mental health
• the oppression of ill persons · illness narratives
• the moral and spiritual significance of illness
• the experience of dying
• empathy, grief, and mourning
• death and the meaning of life
• the significance of human mortality to wider philosophical issues and concerns
• Should the existence of widespread disagreement in politics make us less confident in our own views?
• Are voters morally or epistemically obligated to vote responsibly?
• Should we have beliefs about complex policy questions about which we are not experts?
• Is democracy the best form of government for getting at the truth?
• accounts of what it is to lie
• accounts of the social effects of language (slurs, dog whistles and propaganda)
• the harms of speech and how to balance those with the right to speech
• the different ways in which people can be silenced
• the ethics of pornography
• the ethics of various sexual preferences (e.g. BDSM, racial preferences, gendered preferences)
• philosophy of mind and psychology (with a mental health angle)
• philosophy of mental health (with a philosophy of mind and psychology angle)
• What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
• Can人工智能创意Can artificial intelligence be creative?
• Can artificial intelligence understand, think or have phenomenal consciousness?
• What would a paradigm shift in the way we understand intelligence and artificial intelligence look like?
• What are the ethical constraints on the research and methods of artificial intelligence?
• What are the dangers associated with the wider use of AI in human society?
• What is it to be an authentic person and why think that authenticity is a virtue?
• How is acting freely, responsibly, or autonomously related to acting authentically, if at all?
• Does being authentic require a capacity for radical Libertarian freedom?
• Is the authentic agent someone who need adhere to moral norms, as those are commonly understood?
• Is acting authentically an antidote to nihilism?
• Is the authentic agent someone who need reject the existence of God?
• Kierkegaard
• Schopenhauer
• Nietzsche
• Heidegger
• Sartre
• Beauvoir
• Fanon
• W.B. Yeats
• T.S. Eliot
• W. H. Auden
• Dylan Thomas
• Ted Hughes
• Sylvia Plath
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Tony Harrison
• Seamus Heaney
• Derek Mahon
• Adrienne Rich
• Geoffrey Hill
• Jo Shapcott
• Patience Agbabi
• Alice Oswald
• poetry
• novels
• graphic novels
• films
• vocabulary
• grammar
• reading
• 写作writing
• speaking
• listening
• intercultural communicative skills
• gender and sexual identity construction in a range of interactive contexts
• sexist, misogynistic, homophobic and heteronormative representations in texts
• Is there a language gene?
• What makes human language different from animal communication?
• What is the relationship between thought and language?
• Does everyone talk to themselves? What purpose does our inner voice serve?
• How do we learn language? And does cognition underpin our ability to learn language?
• What do language deficits tell us about language and the brain?
• How do we understand and produce speech, words, and sentences?
• What is the best way to teach children to read?
• How is sign language similar to/different from spoken language?
• 'From Diamonds to Dust: An Ecocritical Comparison Between Modernist Literature and Contemporary Environmental Fiction'
• 'The Representation of Racial Injustices in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric'
• 'Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett in Relation to British Imperialism'
• 'Ethical Criticism and Zadie Smith'
• What sorts of acts should be criminalised, and why?
• Is criminal punishment justified? If so, why?
• Pantheism
• Substance monism
• Monadology
• Panpsychism
• Idealism
• Determinism
• Materialism
• Presocratic Philosophy
• Heraclitus
• Parmenides
• The Sophistic movement
• Plato and Platonism
• Socrates and the Socratic Schools
• Aristotle
• Epicurus and Epicureanism
• Stoicism
• Academic and Pyrrhonian Scepticism
• Plotinus and Neoplatonism
• Pythagoreanism
• moral psychology: what is it to be motivated to do something? What is a moral agent?
• moral anti-realism: if there are no objective moral facts, how should we understand our moral practice?
• metaethics and God: divine command and desire theories
• moral semantics: what is the distinctive meaning of ethical terms? Can ethical terms be defined?
• what constitutes the proper demands of an egalitarian society
• 哲学休闲与游戏philosophy of leisure and play
• 哲学教育philosophy of education
• 哲学家庭philosophy of family
• 哲学工作philosophy of work
• 哲学sexphilosophy of sex