历史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

3 modules

• challenge and refine your ideas about what history is and why it matters
• develop effective learning strategies that help you track your progress and continually strengthen your skills

21 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
• the religious and cultural movements that shaped beliefs, identities and ways of life
• key questions around race, gender and minority experiences in medieval societies
• the rise of new empires and their global consequences
• religious conflict and the ways it redrew political and cultural boundaries
• warfare and its impact on rulers, elites and ordinary people
• social and economic change - and how it shaped daily life
• the lived experiences of marginalised groups often left out of traditional narratives
• new ideas and game-changing technologies that transformed how people lived, worked and communicated
• political upheaval, war and revolution, and their lasting impact on nations and societies
• the rise of powerful social movements campaigning for rights, equality and justice
• major economic changes and shifting cultural values in an increasingly industrial and consumer society
• see how your history degree fits together by making connections across topics, periods, and approaches
• build essential academic skills that will support you throughout your degree and beyond
• how your understanding of history has evolved from school or college to university-level study
• why history matters today and how it shapes contemporary debates, ideas and issues
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

2 modules

• the important and fundamental questions historians ask and the diverse methodological approaches they use
• how different theoretical understandings and sources shape historical research and interpretation

50 modules

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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?
• species history and the rewilding debate
• the rise of environmental protection groups
• the role of the state in environmental protection
• the history of pollution and pesticide use
• the National Park movement
• the Nature Reserve and the rise of outdoor leisure and recreation
• the emergence of modern environmentalism and campaigning
• the role of wildlife television and natural history film-making
• the nature of fascist ideology
• 使用暴力the use of violence
• fascism and masculinity and femininity
• 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 rise of trade relations with India
• the growth of territorial rule through war and negotiation with Indian rulers
• resistance to imperial rule through mutiny
• the debate over sati (widow immolation)
• changing gender roles and expectations
• the experience and impact of rationing, bombing, conscription, voluntary service and direction by central government
• historiographical debates about whether Britain was united against a common enemy
• propaganda, mass communication and the management of information
• 后战争重建城市post-war reconstruction of cities
• reactions to the Holocaust, atomic weaponry, returning service personnel, returning Prisoners of War
• post-war austerity
• representations of the period and the construction of memory
• The Victorians, An Overview
• Religion: Sin and Redemption
• 贫困Poverty
• 城市Cities
• 环境卫生Sanitation
• 性学Sexuality
• Consumerism and the Mass Market
• Entertainment
• 进化Evolution
• How did monarchs and local elites seek to justify their authority in this period?
• To what extent were ideas of hierarchy and obedience queried or accepted?
• What impact did such ideas have on daily life?
• government ideology
• popular beliefs and literacy
• the persecution and toleration of religious minorities
• the politics of the parish
• attitudes towards birth, marriage and death
• the structure of society
• constructions of gender and culture
• family life and marriage
• 城市世界the urban world
• consumerism and culture
• the press and the reading public
• 犯罪crime
• social protest & the rise of radical politics
• 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

模块1 module

• Culture, Society and Politics in 20th-Century Russia
• The British Civil Wars c.1639-1652
• Samurai Revolution: Reinventing Japan, 1853-1878
• Faith and Fire: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England
• The Reign of Richard II
• British Culture in the Age of Mass Production, 1920-1950
• Monsters, Animals and the Boundary of the Human in European Imperial Thought, 1700-1850
• Life During Wartime: Crisis, Decline and Transformation in 1970s America
• Overseas Exploration, European Diplomacy, and the Rise of Tudor England
• The African Atlantic and the British Slave Trade c. 1600-1897
• A Green and (un) Pleasant Land? Society, Culture and the Evolution of the British Countryside
• 欧洲政治与社会European Politics and Society, 1848-1914
• 'The Past That Won't Go Away': The Civil War and the Memory of Wars in Spain
• From Revelation to ISIS: Apocalyptic Thought from the 1st to 21st Century
• The Reimagining of the Capital 1600-1720: The Making of Modern London

30 modules

• Richard II, William Shakespeare and the Revolution of 1399
• The Image of the Male Witch in Early Modern Iceland
• Lord Salisbury and the Mediterranean Agreements: Revisiting Anglo-German Relations, 1886-1896
• Interwar British Fascist Movements and Race, 1922-1940
• Visions of Loathing and Desire: Representations of Masculinity in Late Soviet Posters
• Encounters and Exchanges in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds, 1450-1700
• The Venetian Republic c. 1450-1575
• Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation in the British Empire
• 法国与帝国c.France and its Empire(s), c. 1815-1914
• No Time to Rest: Work, Sleep and Time in Colonial India and the British Empire
• Remembering the Past in Late Medieval England
• Martin Luther and the Origins of Protestantism
• Pacifism in the Twentieth Century
• Atrocity and Humanitarianism in Twentieth Century Europe
• The Politics of Thatcherism, 1975-1992
• 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
• 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?
• 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
• 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
• Politics, Culture and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Rome, c. 1417- c .1721
• The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs for Pleasure and Pain in the History of Medicine
• Britain on Film
• Culture and Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
• Soviet Cultural History
• the causes, consequences and lasting memories of wars through different lenses
• individual and collective lived experiences of war
• societal rebuilding and remembrance
• The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
• Alternatives to War in the Twentieth Century
• Italy and the Second World War
• Federation to Liberation: Zimbabwe 1953-1980
• 国际关系中学东与北方非洲The International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa
• the forces that cause societies to break from the past and envision new futures
• the paradoxes of crisis moments, where despair can give way to hope and reconstruction
• how established orders, beliefs, and hierarchies crumble under pressure, making room for new possibilities
• Three Faces of Eve: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Women in Medieval Iberia
• Empire, Gender and Selfhood: Transgender History in Global Context
• Serfdom to Stalin: Rural Life in Russian Empire and Soviet Union
• Voices from North Africa: Resistance, Decolonisation and State-Building
• Windrush and the (re)Making of a Nation: Myth and Memory
• What sorts of acts should be criminalised, and why?
• Is criminal punishment justified? If so, why?
• Pantheism
• Substance monism
• Monadology
• Panpsychism
• Idealism
• Determinism
• Materialism
• what constitutes the proper demands of an egalitarian society
• 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?
• 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