BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton

Introduces you to ideas about how politics is practiced by state and non-state actors at local, national and international levels. Includes field trips, Q+As with political actors and engagement with political communications. Introduction to methods of data collection and forms of qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Gives a broad overview of the academic study of politics. Focus on core concepts of political science and political theory and application to political processes, institutions, ideologies and the nature of political change. Cover core conceptual material for advanced study in politics and introduction to ideas and approaches applicable in other social sciences.

Examines key areas of philosophical inquiry through close reading, critical discussion and analysis. Explores what philosophy is and engages with major debates on knowledge, mind, freedom, ethics, gender, 'race', justice and war. Develops skills in critical thinking, interpretation and ethical reflection.

Examines questions in global ethics using frameworks of thinking from around the world, such as Islamic traditions, Confucianism and Jainism as well as Indigenous perspectives from Latin America, Africa and the South Pacific. Explores ethical perspectives and applies them to real-world moral dilemmas.

Examines the contemporary crisis of freedom and truth. From 'post-truth' politics to global apartheid, and from the resurgence of authoritarianism to climate catastrophe. Explores what freedom and truth mean, whose freedom has counted, and whose truths have been recognised. Considers how attacks on truth and freedom are a key feature of a wider backlash against progressive gains made by liberation movements.

Focuses on identifying poor reasoning, weak arguments, and the misuse or misrepresentation of evidence and data. Essential for writing and speaking well, particularly in philosophy where sound reasoning and clear arguments are central.

Explore some of the key debates and concepts in history, culture, politics and philosophy since the Enlightenment.

Examines the roots of genocide and natural selection in Darwin's evolutionary theory and the advances offered by Freudian psychoanalysis. Considers the way the 'respectable' self is constituted through resistance to negative concepts such as madness, criminality and sexual perversion in the work of Foucault and policed by the war on terror, torture and bioethics.

Begins by considering how Plato mapped out an ethical worldview in The Republic and asks what social justice requires of us in a contemporary global context. Explores the moral and philosophical aspects of pressing social and political issues relating to the human body.

Examines the dominant role and effects of ideology in modern world history. Begins with a close study of the rise and fall of European global hegemony from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Explores the multifaceted history of the Cold War.

Focuses on racism, what it is, how it works and how it can be contested. Studies the evolving conceptualisation of 'race', racism and strategies of resistance. Examines the diverse histories of racism and resistance through case studies and the post-imperial experience of 'race' in France and Britain.

Critically explores how literary texts – fiction, drama and poetry – 'do' philosophy and how philosophical works engage with literature. Focusing on the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century in relation to shifting concepts of the individual and ideas of reason, faith and freedom, liberty, transgression and expression.

A 50-hour professional work placement at a not-for-profit organisation such as a local charity, non-governmental organisation or community organisation. Includes fortnightly academic seminars where students reflect on the links between academic theory and practice.

Students complete and submit a dissertation, developing specialist knowledge on their chosen subject and learning valuable research method skills.

Assessment: Includes an oral exam: drawing from a theme in the dissertation, students prepare and deliver a presentation and take questions.