Philosophy and Ethics: Learning and Teaching

The Department teaching Philosophy and Ethics has an excellent reputation for the quality of teaching and learning. We are also known to students as being friendly and helpful, with staff who make time to help individual students. Teaching and learning takes a variety of forms including lectures, small group seminars, on-line discussions, individual tutorials and individual research.

Virtual Learning

The University's virtual learning environment, Minerva, provides a range of useful online resources for teaching Philosophy and Ethics, including links to valuable websites, seminar and lecture materials, and a number of discussion boards that allow debates and conversations to be developed at a distance from the seminar room.

Personal Tutors

You will be allocated a personal tutor who will assist with both academic progress and personal issues throughout the course.

Assessment

Several forms of assessment are used, featuring coursework assessments in Years 1 and 2, including essays, individual projects, presentations and discussion board participation, and with the addition of a timed critical analysis in Year 3.

Research and Scholarship

Current ideas of staff expertise and research include war and peace, feminist philosophy of religion, philosophy and education, and Indian philosophies, with staff regularly publishing books and articles and delivering conference papers in this country and abroad.

Employment

Popular Philosophy graduate career destinations include: law, civil service, local government, journalism, financial institutions, management, IT and education - especially teaching citizenship. As this is part of a Combined Degree, other career opportunities depend on subject combination. For example, as Philosophy and Ethics feature increasingly in A-level Religious Studies, a combination with Study of Religions would be excellent preparation for a PGCE in Religious Education, Moral Education and Citizenship Education.