University of Wolverhampton, BA (Hons), Politics and Philosophy

Politics Year 1: Introduction to the study of British politics and to the different methods used to study politics; there are also opportunities to study the relationship between the media and politics and the process of globalization. Year 2: Focuses on international politics, the dominant ideologies of contemporary politics and includes modules concerned with the economic, political and cultural changes in post war Britain; the theory and practice of terrorism; and the representation of the Vietnam war in America. Year 3: Key contributors to political ideas and theories and also allows the student to focus upon the development of the European Union and the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East; a dissertation may be undertaken on a topic of choice. Philosophy Year 1: Introduction to critical thinking and philosophy; explores ways of living that are thought to be immoral, dangerous or unhealthy, and asks why we often find certain kinds of bad behaviour exciting and attractive. Year 2: Key traditions in moral philosophy and students get the chance to assess their own moral intuitions and concepts; students acquaint themselves with classical epistemology - the theory of knowledge - and its problems and difficulties; they may also investigate the Enlightenment - widely regarded as the movement that formed the central institutions and structures of the modern western world. Year 3: Embraces the ethical issues arising from relations between the individual and the state and the law, and the means used to bring about legal and political change; students explore current understanding of conscious intelligence, or explore the traditional place of women within philosophy; they may also investigate what it is to be true to yourself, with the freedom to determine who you really want to be.