Skip to main content
Panoramic collage of university campus architecture

BA (Hons) Philosophy

University of Hull, United Kingdom
Save

Course Overview

Studying philosophy at Hull means doing philosophy: engaging with current issues and emerging philosophical challenges. That will help you to build and use the skills and methods that only training in philosophy can provide.

You'll grapple with fundamental questions about the nature of reality, consciousness, and what it is to be human. You'll debate the issues of the day, from cutting-edge genetics to artificial intelligence that will equip you to shape your future and the world around you.

And you can get involved with Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS), where our philosophy students hand down their enthusiasm and wisdom from one year group to the next.

General Eligibility

Points can be from any qualification on the UCAS tariff but must include at least 80 points from

  • A levels

  • BTEC Subsidiary Diploma, Diploma, or Extended Diploma

  • OCR Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma, Diploma, or Extended Diploma

  • CACHE Diploma or Extended Diploma

  • Irish Leaving Certificate

  • Scottish Highers

  • Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma

  • or a combination of appropriate Level 3 qualifications

Alternative qualifications

  • IB Diploma: 30 points

  • Pass Access to HE Diploma overall with a minimum of 118 UCAS tariff points.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY

  • Creation, Persistence and Destruction: Problems in Metaphysics

  • Science and Social Values

  • Ideas that Shaped the World (Philosophical Texts I)

  • Knowing Now: Problems in Epistemology

  • Reason, Logic and Argument

  • The Examined Life: Introduction to Philosophy

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY

  • Minds, Brains, and Machines

  • Doing Philosophy: Research Methods and Applications

  • History of Political Thought

  • Questioning Rights and Wrongs: Thinking About Ethics

  • Philosophical Revolutionaries (Philosophical Texts II)

  • Theorising Gender

3 Year 3

COMPULSORY

  • Philosophy Research Project

  • Challenging Perspectives (Philosophical Texts III)

  • Faking News: Difference, Disagreement and Dialectic

  • Our Digital Age: Philosophical Perspectives on Humanity, Technology and Nature

OPTIONAL

  • Gender, Science and Knowledge

  • State, Democracy and Globalization: Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy

  • States of Violence: Power, Protest and Terror

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill.

Ready to get started?

For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

Contact Us
Call
WhatsApp
Email