University of Wolverhampton, BA (Hons), Philosophy and Media and Cultural Studies

The philosophy course prepares students to reason rigorously, critically, creatively and autonomously about key concepts underlying most human enquiry concerning the nature of reality, value and experience; students investigate a range of concepts from the nature of goodness, duty and rights, through grasping the nature of free will, consciousness, relation of mind and body, the difference between belief, opinion and knowledge, to the importance of gender in understanding identity; students learn to apply philosophical skills and techniques to practical reasoning in an imaginative way; the media and cultural studies course investigates the role of the media in contemporary culture; in particular, it examines media and culture in terms of production (industries and text) and consumption (audiences and consumers); the course critically examines the role that media and cultural products play in our daily lives, drawing upon historical and contemporary case studies; it enables you to understand and contextualise your own cultural experiences and media consumption; various cultural styles are investigated, such as popular culture, mass culture, material culture, subculture, cyberculture and multiculturalism.