European Philosophy

Description

UCAS Code: V501

Examine your own beliefs and put them to the test as you investigate the views of some of the most important thinkers in the history of Western thought.

Philosophy involves being open to new and different responses to familiar and unfamiliar questions. If you ever find yourself thinking about big questions beyond everyday experience - questions that may never have a single, final answer - then you would probably enjoy studying philosophy.

Dundee is unique in Scotland in offering a specialisation in Continental Philosophy through our degree in European Philosophy - where you'll encounter the most exciting thinkers over the last 100 years (such as Nietzsche, Sartre, Foucault, and Deleuze).

We explore how philosophy is important to real-world concerns and contemporary issues by:

- drawing on films and artworks in our lectures

- discussing important scientific developments

- debating controversial ethical issues

- looking at how texts written three hundred years ago can be relevant to political situations today

You will be encouraged to make links between philosophy and other disciplines, such as politics, literature, film, the environment, psychology, and computer science. Specialist modules and independent study options will help you to explore philosophically the topics of special interest to you.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 2060 Year (EEA)
• EUR 10420 Year (Non-EEA)

Tuition fees are approximate and dependent upon currency exchange rates.

• English

Course Content

Level 1

A total of 6 modules, including at least one of:

- Plato and the Good Life - This module introduces philosophy through the works of Plato.

- Descartes, Thought and Reality - Focusing on the key themes of thought and reality, this course will introduce students to some of the most important thinkers informing debates in contemporary philosophy.

Level 2

A total of 6 modules, including at least one of:

- Hume and Recent European Philosophy, Problems of the Self - In this unit, we investigate Hume's views on the mind, meaning, the sources and justification of knowledge, causation, free will, the self, God, and morality.

- Aesthetics and Kant

Level 3

A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours)

A selection of the following modules will be available in any one year:

- Aesthetics of the Sublime*

- Foucault, Power and Violence*

- Gender, Feminism and Political Theory

- Kant's Critique of Pure Reason*

- Knowledge and Mind

- Logic and Paradox

- Philosophies of History*

- Philosophy and Antigone

- Question of Vision in Art and Philosophy*

- Spinoza and Free Will*

Level 4

A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours)

A selection of the following modules will be available in any one year:

- Dissertation (compulsory for single Honours students)

- Deleuze*

- Marx's Capital

- Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil*

- Philosophy of Peace and War

- Philosophy of Time

- Thinking Film*

- Understanding, Dialogue and Interpretation*

- Wittgenstein

European Philosophy modules are marked with an asterisk*.

Requirements

- Minimum Requirements:

SQA Higher: ABBB

GCE A-Level: BCC

ILC Higher: ABBB

IB Diploma: 30 points with 5, 5, 5 at HL

- Advanced Entry (to level 2):

SQA Advanced Higher: BB+BB (H) in different subjects

GCE A-Level: ABB

IB Diploma: 34 points with 6, 6, 5 at HL

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Dundee.