At Lancaster University, when you study English Literature and Philosophy you have an exciting opportunity to engage with a wide range of literary texts while considering the fundamental philosophical questions about human existence - truth and knowledge, right and wrong, politics and justice, art, faith and reason.

In English Literature, you’ll read the greats as well as the voices that history has overlooked. From ancient myth to the contemporary graphic novel, you’ll read widely, closely, and deeply, experiencing literature in a host of new and immersive ways. Alongside this, you’ll apply philosophy in real-world scenarios examining philosophy’s role in addressing global, social and political challenges.

Why study English Literature and Philosophy at Lancaster?

Study a wide range of genres from both ancient and modern literatures

Develop your own critical (and even creative-critical) voice

Be part of Literary Lancaster - a vibrant community of critics and writers

Take the opportunity to engage in philosophy as an active practice, learning from philosophers who are involved in developing the research, ideas, and theory you will study

Study a distinctive course that draws upon multiple philosophical traditions including, Western, Chinese, Continental and Feminist thought

Gain valuable work experience with internship opportunities through the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, known for its cutting-edge research

As you progress though the course, you can choose modules from either subject, depending on your own interests.

What will I study In English Literature?

Literary study at Lancaster offers a rich engagement with the very best of literature from classical and medieval to the modern and contemporary. You will have the chance to study all the great names, as well as voices that have been forgotten or overlooked.

We are pioneers in experimental or creative forms of literary criticism, as well as encouraging established forms of literary scholarship, such as archival work, historicism, close reading, and literary theory. We believe that reading is not passive but active. It is something that acts upon both the texts that we read and the world in which we live; and neither those texts nor the world are left the same.

At Lancaster, studying English Literature is not just an academic pursuit—it is also an opportunity to connect with history, culture, and the many ways literature shapes our world.

To enhance your experience, we run many special literary events, often in spectacular locations such as Lancaster’s medieval Castle, the awe-inspiring Priory, or the archive-rich Wordsworth Grasmere in the nearby Lake District. These events develop a sense of community and help you to establish friendships through your studies.

What will I study in Philosophy?

In your Philosophy studies at Lancaster, you will gain strong foundational knowledge, building confidence in key areas of the discipline, before going on to examine specialist topics of particular relevance to your degree in English Literature and Philosophy.

From ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and critical thinking in your first year, to the opportunity to undertake an independent project and study research-led cutting edge questions at the frontiers of philosophy in your final year, you will leave your degree with a deeper understanding of multiple philosophical traditions, themes and topics. And you will have developed the critical thinking, reasoning and communication skills essential to engaging in, understanding and influencing our complex and globally-connected world.

As an English Literature and Philosophy student, you will study philosophy that will particularly enrich and draw on your literary studies. Examining philosophical debates in Language and Communication in your second year, and questions in Philosophy and Popular Culture in your final year, you will gain a deeper appreciation of the connections between the two subjects of your degree and of how philosophical questions can inform our interpretation of literature and media. Meanwhile, your skills in interpretative analysis, honed in your study of literature, will help inform your approach to Applied Philosophy in your second year, and be invaluable in undertaking close Textual Explorations in Philosophy in your final year.

As a final year student, you will also have the opportunity to carry out independent research to produce a portfolio of work in an area of philosophy that interests you, or to write a short dissertation, working with expert philosophers at Lancaster on a topic of your choosing from among the wide range of specialisms available.

Through this, and through participation in a broad range of assessments, including podcasts, policy briefings, public philosophy and more traditional essay-based coursework and exams, you will develop and showcase your reasoning and critical thinking skills, your communicative abilities and your experience of deploying all of these skills and abilities – invaluable attributes that will open up a wide range of career prospects.

How can I enhance my career prospects on this course?

There are many opportunities to develop experience and enhance your employability on our BA English Literature and Philosophy.

If you are interested in writing, publishing, and editing you could choose to get involved in one of our four student-run literary journals: Cake, Flash, Lux and Errant. You might get involved in organising, marketing and hosting some of our literary events. You could also volunteer to help at Litfest, Lancaster’s annual literature festival which attracts well-known authors from around the world (including some of our own author-tutors).

In Philosophy you may further enhance your employability skills through a live research project. You are also invited to apply for one of our paid research internships, where you will work alongside an academic member of staff on an active research project. You’ll join a thriving community and take part in events organised by our Philosophical Society, including debates, essay competitions, and visits by guest speakers.

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Sometimes known as a year in industry, your placement year will take place between your second and final year of study and this will extend your degree to four years.

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in a graduate-level position, where you’ll work for between nine and twelve months in the type of role that you might be considering for after you graduate. A very wide range of companies and organisations offer placements across all sectors.

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If you are unsuccessful in securing a suitable placement for your third year, you will be able to transfer to the equivalent non-placement degree scheme and continue with your studies at Lancaster, finishing your degree after your third year.

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What careers can I pursue with a degree in English Literature and Philosophy?

You will graduate with a set of skills that will help open doors to a wide range of career destinations.Throughout your study you will be developing skills that are vital to employers, such as mental agility, clarity of writing, persuasive argumentation, and critical thinking. This course will equip you with the ability to tackle and solve complex and novel challenges.

With your English Literature and Philosophy background your skills will be valued by a range of sectors from the public to the private: in the creative and cultural industries such as museums, heritage and the arts; in literary tourism, podcasting, game-writing, blogging, film, television, and social media and in large multinationals and small local enterprises.

Our graduates go on to a variety of roles such as:

Journalist

Project manager

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Librarian

Arts Managers

Teachers

Game writers

Copywriters

Marketing executive

Social researcher

Local government officer

Policy analyst

Civil servant

Entrepreneur

This course also provides a strong foundation for further study, with some students going on to take a Master’s degree.

What careers and employability support does Lancaster offer?

Our degrees open up an extremely wide array of career pathways in businesses and organisations, large and small, in the UK and overseas.

We run a paid internship scheme specifically for our arts, humanities and social sciences students, supported by a specialist Employability Team. The team offer individual consultations and tailored application guidance, as well as careers events, development opportunities, and resources.

Whether you have a clear idea of your potential career path or need some help considering the options, our friendly team is on hand.

Lancaster is unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which recognises activities such as work experience, community engagement or volunteering and social development. A valuable addition to your CV!

Find out more about Lancaster’s careers events, extensive resources and personal support for Careers and Employability.

Entry requirements

These are the typical grades that you will need to study this course. This section will tell you whether you need qualifications in specific subjects, what our English language requirements are, and if there are any extra requirements such as attending an interview or submitting a portfolio.

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Access to HE Diploma

30 Level 3 credits at Distinction plus 15 Level 3 credits at Merit

Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales

We accept the Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales in place of one A level, or equivalent qualification, as long as any subject requirements are met.

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BTEC in combination with A levels

A level at grade B plus BTEC(s) at DD, or A levels at grade BB plus BTEC at D

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects

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We are happy to admit applicants on the basis of five Highers, but where we require a specific subject at A level, we will typically require an Advanced Higher in that subject. If you do not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone, we will consider a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers in separate subjects. Please contact the Admissions team for more information.

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English Language grade 4/C.

We will also look at your overall GCSE profile when considering your application as a whole.

We do have flexibility when considering GCSE requirements. Go to our GCSE information for more details.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, we require an IELTS score of 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component for this programme. English language qualifications for undergraduate study.

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International foundation programmes

Delivered in partnership with Lancaster University International Study Centre, our one-year tailored foundation pathways are designed to improve your subject knowledge and English language skills to the level required by a range of Lancaster University degrees. Visit the Lancaster University International Study Centre for more details and a list of eligible degrees you can progress onto.

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We continually review and enhance our curriculum to ensure we are delivering the best possible learning experience, and to make sure that the subject knowledge and transferable skills you develop will prepare you for your future. The University will make every reasonable effort to offer programmes and modules as advertised. In some cases, changes may be necessary and may result in new modules or some modules and combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research. Where the course offers optional modules, they may not all be available every year.

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Literature in Time

Tracing the evolution of literature over time and in time, you will engage with an array of literary genres including plays, films, short stories, novels, poetry, essays and the graphic novel. You will encounter a wide range of literature - from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, moving from Chaucer, through Shakespeare and Milton, to Virginia Woolf. You’ll also study contemporary writers such as Alison Bechdel and Paul Muldoon, and many others.

Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World

What is real, how can we know, and how can we check our reasoning? In this module you will study philosophical tools for reasoning and arguing (critical thinking) and discover fundamental philosophical questions about knowledge (epistemology) and the nature of reality (metaphysics).

In studying critical thinking, you will learn methods of constructing and analysing arguments and acquire basic logical terminology.

In exploring epistemology, you’ll discuss questions such as: what exactly is it to ‘know’ something? Can we know anything at all? Are there alternative knowledges?

In metaphysics, you will consider questions such as: what is the fundamental nature of reality? How are we to understand cause and effect, necessity and contingency, time and space, personal identity?

You will gain the means to think about some of the deepest and broadest philosophical questions we can ask. And you will be equipped with critical thinking tools to face the contemporary challenges of a globally connected world.

Ethics: How Should I Live?

How should you live? Who should you be? What should you value? What is value? And on what basis can anyone make such claims?

This module introduces you to philosophical ethics, the systematic theoretical study of these questions. You will develop both your philosophical skills, and a map of the landscape of philosophical ethics by practicing critical reading and discussion and writing about questions relating to a range of topics.

Topics may include:

Major ethical theories such as utilitarianism, deontology, contractarianism, or virtue ethics

Global moral dilemmas relating to areas such as the environment, medicine, poverty, or technology

Goodness and rightness

Personhood and selfhood

Practical reasoning and moral psychology

The best kind of life to live

The objectivity or subjectivity of morality

By studying philosophical ethics, you will gain an invaluable set of philosophical skills and ideas while reflecting on how ethical choices – both small and large – affect our relationships, our societies, and our shared futures.

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History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West

From questions about truth, justice, and knowledge to debates over freedom, power, and human purpose - how has philosophical inquiry shaped cultural, political, and scientific life across centuries?

In this module you will explore the major ideas and traditions that have guided the development of Western thought. Specific thinkers examined will vary from year to year, but they will include philosophers whose ideas have helped shape philosophical viewpoints, categories and boundaries in the western philosophical tradition. You will be encouraged to think about the problems and limitations of different thinkers’ approaches, and their impact on the way we practice and understand the boundaries and scope of philosophy today, asking questions of them such as:

How did these thinkers conceive of philosophy and its task?

How did they conceive of being and reality?

How did they understand truth and how did they think it could be discovered?

How did they set the agenda for philosophical debates in the West from the past to the present?

By the end of this module, you will have learnt to think with, rather than about some of these influential thinkers, while reflecting on how the concepts that forged the past continue to frame the challenges of our present and the possibilities of our future.

History of Philosophy: Resistance and Inclusion

Explore philosophical traditions not usually studied in standard histories of philosophy, and understand what we gain by including them in our interpretation of the history of philosophy.

By engaging with understudied texts and contexts in this module, you will learn to question familiar narratives about philosophical history and to reconstruct alternative lineages and conceptual resources. And by comparing various traditions, you will develop tools to think across boundaries and to put diverse voices into conversation, comparison, and contrast.

You will study at least two philosophical traditions in depth, in dialogue, and in their historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts. The specific traditions covered in the module will vary each year, but may include:

Chinese philosophy

African philosophy

Feminist thought

Women philosophers from specific time periods and locales, such as the Victorian era

Continental European philosophy

Any other tradition that has been historically marginalised in traditional histories of philosophy

You will look at how these different traditions approach a variety of topics, which may include personhood, knowledge and truth, value, morality, and politics, and you will consider how these traditions resist exclusion and broaden our understanding of philosophy and its possibilities past, present, and future.

By the end of this module you will have knowledge of a broader philosophical landscape, and be able to think critically about practices of inclusion and exclusion within philosophical thinking – both as it has been practised in the past, and how it might be practised in the future.

Literature and Place

Study literature through the frame of space, exploring a wide range of major ancient, modern and contemporary texts, all of which relate to particular places.

These places may include:

Archives

The stage

Mountains

Plantations

Glaciers

The womb

Some of the spaces may relate directly to the historic city of Lancaster itself and to its wonderful location near to both the Lake District and the coast, and some of the spaces will relate to places far away.

Texts studied may include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Ali Smith’s How to Be Both.

Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

The medieval and early modern periods witnessed immense change. This module will introduce you to the key themes, sources, and methods you need to understand the patterns of change and continuity around the world over a period of more than a thousand years. The shift from a warm climate in the medieval period to a colder one in the early modern period may help us explain patterns of life in a world where most people depended on subsistence agriculture.

Huge transformations were also wrought by the movement of people, diseases, animals, and goods, with events such as the Black Death in Europe and smallpox epidemics in the Americas decisively changing how people lived, and how they related to each other. At the same time, political and religious ideas can help us to understand how and why people organised their societies in the ways they did, and how they understood their relationships to the other societies around them.

To reckon with these changes - and many more - you will study a wide range of themes, from environment to health and disease, gender, culture, media, politics, religion, and science. Meanwhile, you will master some of the key approaches and methodologies that historians now use to interpret the fascinating patterns of continuity and change in early modern life. Moreover, discover a wealth of primary sources, ranging from: chronicles and letters; poetry and literature; codes of law; burials and material culture; along with printed pamphlets, books, and newspapers.

Political Philosophy: How Should we Live Together?

Political philosophy explores how best to arrange our collective life - through our political institutions, social practices and shared values, and through the economic, private and public structures that support them.

In this module you will consider critical debates that both historical and contemporary communities have faced about the boundaries, rights and duties of the state, community and individual citizens, through consideration of core concepts and values in political philosophy, such as justice, freedom, and equality.

You will examine central questions about the justification of power and the rights and duties of people within political communities. And you will apply these foundational positions to critical contemporary debates, looking at topics such as:

Global and local inequality and poverty

Migration and control of state borders

Political protest and resistance

Gender and racial justice

You will leave this module with a deeper understanding of some of the normative questions raised by our collective life, and with tools and ideas to help you reason and act as a global and local citizen, in shaping the outcomes and outlook of our social world.

The Arts and Identity (Discovery module)

This module explores the role of the arts in building community, identity and confidence. You will engage with a variety of different art forms (such as painting, theatre, fiction, designed artefacts and film) and develop your own voice via collaborative projects such as a podcasts, video essay or presentation. You will also engage in individual critical reflection for example via a blog, journal or research project.

This module fosters co-operation, intellectual experimentation and self-assurance.

Thinking Globally (Discovery module)

What does it mean to think in and about the world? This module will draw on disciplines from across the School of Global Affairs to think about the very different ways in which the world can be imagined.

What are the ideas that have framed or limited our understanding of the world and others in it? How can we challenge existing narratives and explore alternative perspectives?

Critical Theory

Explore literary criticism as it is now and what it may yet become. You will have the opportunity to consider a whole range of major theoretical and philosophical concepts, such as:

The body

Violence

The animal

You will study a range of fascinating modern thinkers, ranging from Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, through to more recent figures such as Simone Weil, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Fred Moten, Cornel West and Sara Ahmed.

Language, Communication and Knowledge

Critically engage with questions and debates about our socially connected lives and the ways in which we interact and act on the world through language and communication, individually and as a society, to shape knowledge and reality. In this module you will gain the skills and insight to ask questions which change each year but may include:

How does communication work in our individual and collective lives?

How might certain kinds of communication bring about ethical and political change (for example, by making something permissible or changing the boundaries of acceptable political discourse)?

Are lying and other kinds of deception permissible, and if so, when and for whom?

What does freedom of speech really mean, and how might duties and rights differ in this space for citizens, for the press, for politicians, for academics, and on social media?

How can collective knowledge practices exclude or harm, do we have duties to address these problems, and what might work to do so?

What is the nature and appropriate regulation of propaganda and hate speech?

What are the ways in which patterns of attention and exclusion or inclusion in who we listen to and develop knowledge with may have ethical and political implications?

What communicative protest and speech acts are legitimate in a democratic state?

You will leave this module with a better understanding of how practices of knowledge creation and participation, and of language and communication, may actively shape and determine the boundaries of our world, and with the skills to critically examine these forces in action across the media, social media, politics and society.

Critical Practice

Reflect on what it means to do criticism in a post-theoretical age. This module asks what happens to literary interpretation after all its many theoretical upheavals – from Marxism and feminism to postcolonialism and queer theory. Is it time to get back to the close reading of literature? Is there still room for pleasure, appreciation and creativity in the practice of criticism? We might question whether literature, in the traditional sense, even exists anymore.

You will pose these questions in relation to a range of traditional and non-traditional texts.

Applied Philosophy: Decisions that Change the World

Explore how philosophical thinking can tackle real-world problems, from personal dilemmas to global challenges, by linking abstract ideas to concrete decisions.

In this module you will engage with an applied philosophical challenge, using your philosophical skills to provide compelling reasons in favour of your solution. Through production of a short podcast or in-person presentation, you will also develop your ability to engage in philosophical argumentation beyond the written word. And along the way, you’ll gain the tools to think clearly, act responsibly, and engage thoughtfully with the complex world around you.

Specific topics studied each year draw on Lancaster’s wide range of applied expertise and may include:

Ethics and regulation in traditional and social media, in the era of mass global communication and impact

Bioethical topics such as euthanasia, rationing, ageism, research ethics and public health ethics

Health and illness, the concept of mental health, and the role of lay or patient knowledge versus medical expertise

Ethics in professional and organisational life, including divisions of roles, decent work, unpaid and care work, the rights and duties of corporations and employers and codes of ethics

Study of different scientific methods and their limitations

Throughout this module you will learn about topics in applied philosophy, while developing and practicing some of the many transferable skills that Philosophy graduates bring to a wide range of professional roles, such as critical problem solving, political and ethical reasoning, the clear identification of problems, and the art of communicating potential solutions to diverse audiences.

American Literature

What we call ‘American Literature’ and how we define America and ‘the American experience’ depends on who is writing and to whom. In this module you will encounter many different voices, many conflicting and contrasting views, a diversity of complex experience and a great range of writing in form and style.

You will explore such questions as: What role do different literary forms play in narrating the self? How does American writing seek to establish a new way of looking at the world? And how and why does literature help shape forms of protest and new critiques of modernity?

Continental Philosophy

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a new approach to philosophy began to emerge that questioned and interrogated the inherited western philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant. This new approach was later described as ‘continental’ philosophy.

In this module, you will discover some of the key thinkers from this continental tradition of philosophy. The particular philosophers will vary from year to year, but will include pioneering thinkers who have been particularly influential on later continental philosophers (for example, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein) as well as more recent continental thinkers themselves (for example, Lyotard, Derrida, Levinas, Badiou, Žižek, Foucault, Arendt and Beauvoir). While engaging with their thoughts, we will consider difficult and enduring questions such as:

What is the relationship between history and truth?

How does subjective experience relate to universal truth?

What is the significance of gender and embodiment in philosophical reflection?

What is the role of language and discourse in philosophical claims?

How might we conceive of the relationship between power and freedom?

On completion of this module, you will be able to understand and interpret the central arguments made by these thinkers and to assess their distinctive claims, methods and approaches and their continuing significance for philosophy and for how we ought to structure our societies and lives.

Literary Adaptation

Exploring the adaption of literature to film and other media, this module focuses on the adaptation of literary texts to such forms as theatre, graphic novel, film, television, song, and game.

You will be invited to reflect on adaptation as a powerful and complex cultural process, one that interprets literature as well as adapts it.

Throughout the module you will normally complete either a critical essay on adaptation OR a creative project (plus short essay) that enables you to produce your own work of adaptation. This may take many forms -- written, (audio) visual, musical, digital, or three-dimensional and/or take the form of a game, production or performance, etc.

Medieval to Early Modern Literature

Explore a wide range of literature and drama from the medieval and early modern periods. The module situates medieval and early modern literature in its relevant historical and cultural contexts.

You will develop skills in the close reading of medieval and early modern texts.

Authors studied may include Chaucer, the Gawain poet, Margery Kempe, Mary Wroth, Sir Philip Sidney and Christopher Marlowe.

Mind, World and Science

What does it take to have a mind? How does science work? Does human reason equip us to understand the external world? In this module we explore the nature of consciousness and reality, and the methods by which we understand them, focussing on key debates in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of science.

In the first part of the module, you will explore what it takes to have a mind, examining and critiquing some of the wide range of answers philosophers have offered to this intractable problem. Questions you will investigate include:

What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?

How do animal minds or artificial intelligence fit into our understanding of thought and consciousness?

Can science ever provide us with a full understanding of how consciousness is possible?

The second part of the module turns to the nature of science itself. Modern science is often regarded as our most reliable guide to reality, but what justifies this status? In investigating the nature of science, you will learn about some of the most influential twentieth-century accounts of scientific method and theory-testing. Questions you will address include:

How does science differ from non-science?

Is there a scientific method?

Should we believe in unobservable entities posited by scientific theories, such as quarks or superstrings?

What are limits of scientific and rational inquiry?

Through wrestling with debates about the nature of consciousness, science, and the extent to which we can understand reality you will leave this module equipped with a greater understanding of some of the most difficult and enduring challenges in philosophy: what it is to be human, to have sentience, and how should we understand the vast body of scientific knowledge that shapes our collective world?

Philosophy Guided Project

Create a portfolio of investigative and critical writing which explores a particular philosophical topic in depth.

In this module you will be guided with expert support from Lancaster philosophers to develop your philosophical and independent study skills. Through deep engagement with a specific topic you will develop your ability to assess philosophical arguments and make independent judgements, informed by reasoning and evidence. You will engage with a text, problem, figure or body of work chosen by an academic within the philosophy team at Lancaster who is a specialist on the topic and work with their expert support, in groups and independently.

Project topics offered each year will be drawn from one or more of Lancaster’s many areas of expertise, such as:

Global philosophy

Comparative philosophy

Metaphysics

Political philosophy

Applied philosophy

Social ontology and epistemology

Philosophy of science

Philosophy of mind

The history of philosophy

Feminist philosophy

Continental philosophy

Aesthetics

Completion of this module will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need for further independent writing in your final year of study.

Postcolonial Literature

Explore postcolonial literature across a wide historical span. Your study will move from the explosion of new national literatures in the era of decolonisation through to contemporary writing that interrogates the legacies of racism and imperialism in our globalised world.

You’ll read exciting major writers who defined the emergence of African, South Asian and Caribbean literature in English in the middle of the twentieth century. You’ll also encounter today’s new voices, grappling with the afterlives of empire.

Cutting through all our thinking will be the question of how literature serves, in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s phrase, as a means of 'decolonising the mind'.

Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)

Explore how ideas can be developed into real-world projects with lasting value. Through hands-on collaboration and problem-solving, you will develop innovative projects, learn how to bring ideas to life and explore ways to sustain them.

Whether you are working in a team or individually, you will be encouraged to experiment with different approaches to making a difference in artistic, cultural, social and community spaces.

Victorian Literature

The years of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837-1901) saw great social, political and cultural transformation. Changing social conditions, extraordinary scientific breakthroughs and the emergence of new technologies all altered the ways in which Victorians thought about themselves and their environment. The literature of the period responded resourcefully to the turbulent circumstances from which it emerged.

In this module, you will examine a wide range of Victorian writing, including novels, short fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose and will explore and interrogate all the complexities of the Victorian age.

Work Based Learning Year

This module will allow you to spend the year working in a graduate-level placement role in the industry or sector that interests you most. Throughout the year, you will build an awareness of what is required in the professional workplace whilst developing a range of transferable skills.

During the module you will reflect on and critically analyse: your own career readiness, the ongoing development of your self-awareness in terms of skills and professional knowledge, and your understanding of current workplace practices and professional etiquette.

Our Careers and Placements Team will support you during your placement with online contact and learning resources.

Philosophy and Popular Culture

From music, film, and television to sports, fashion, and digital media, explore how cultural texts raise philosophical questions about identity, morality, power, and meaning, and examine how popular culture both reflects and shapes the way we understand ourselves and the world around us. In this module you will look at how philosophers have understood the production, circulation and reception of popular culture, and how it bears on our own autonomy, agency, power, and identity.

You will study themes which may include:

Philosophical approaches to mass culture, cultural value, art, and aesthetic judgement

Authorship, mass production, genre, kitsch, remix, and the ontology of reproducible artworks

Identities, stereotypes, cultural appropriation, objectification, and other political issues in regard to popular culture and mainstream media

The Frankfurt School on the culture industry and the critique of popular music

Pragmatist, analytic and continental arguments for the aesthetic and social value of popular music, film, television and other forms

Philosophical analysis of selected cultural artefacts as case studies – songs, films, novels, and visual art

In studying this module, you will gain an understanding of how philosophy provides tools for interpreting the stories we collectively tell and consume – and how those stories, in turn, influence our sense of self and the very fabric of the societies and world we inhabit.

Textual Explorations in Philosophy

Engage with a significant philosophical text or collection of texts, working with an academic philosopher on the topic of their live philosophical project and expertise. In this module you will:

Read deeply

Develop interpretations

Make reasoned assessments

Find and engage with secondary literature

Contribute to contemporary understanding and critique of your text(s)

In student-led and discussion-based workshops, you will present your own philosophical interpretations and arguments, take part in guided debates, and work on a portfolio of critical readings. In doing so you will be joining the practice, shared by all professional philosophers, of contributing to the understanding and development of the field itself.

The specific text(s) you will work on will vary year by year, but will be drawn from the interests and expertises of Lancaster philosophy staff. They might include, for example:

Work by philosophers whose work had, and continues to have, major impact, such as Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Hannah Arendt, J. L. Austin, or Iris Marion Young

Work by significant contemporary philosophers such as Miranda Fricker, Peter Railton, Martha Nussbaum, or David Lewis

Work from within a specific philosophical tradition, such as classical or modern Chinese philosophy, or work by nineteenth-century women philosophers.

One or more options will be offered each year.

In studying this module, you will deploy the skills you have developed in your first two years of study, gain in-depth knowledge of an important area of philosophy, and further sharpen your skills in reading, interpretation, and thoughtful response – critical skills for both postgraduate study and a range of post-study careers.

English Literature Dissertation

The final-year Dissertation is your opportunity to devise, research and explore a topic of your own choice through a programme of directed independent study. You will be helped to begin your thinking at the end of your second year and then, through your final year, you will develop your research, thinking and writing, as you build toward a substantial, self-directed project.

Almost anything is possible; for example, you could choose to explore famous literary names or themes, or research obscure figures and unusual topics. You might draw on the University Library’s special collections, or venture way beyond Lancaster to develop your research. Perhaps you will be inspired by the medievalism of historic Lancaster or the Romanticism of nearby Lake District or be drawn to the far textual shores of the digital world.

You can focus your work towards a professional career or build towards postgraduate study at master’s level. Finally, you can opt to write in classic literary critical styles or push the boundaries of literary study in new and startling ways.

Austen and the Brontës

Study the work of four giants of nineteenth-century British fiction: Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë.

Focusing on questions of class, gender, power, environment and artistic technique, you will explore the tensions between Austen and the Brontes (south vs north, Regency vs Victorian, realism vs Gothic) and trace the imaginative continuities between them.

Contemporary Literature

What is the contemporary? When did the present cultural moment start and how might it end. How do writers respond to the challenge, excitement, pressure and novelty of the ‘now’? And how is imaginative writing faring in the digital age?

You will consider these questions in relation to the work of such major authors as Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Colson Whitehead

Gothic and Science Fiction

Both the Gothic and science fiction emerged in response to the 18th century ‘age of reason’ and the Western world’s investment in logic and progress. The Gothic explores the terrors of the past and its return while science fiction imagines alternative futures; in doing so, both voice the concerns of the present.

You will study both classic literary texts and contemporary film and other media. Exploring what the Gothic and science fiction each do, rather than what they each are, you will consider how these genres address some of the most pressing questions facing contemporary Western culture.

Literature and Environment

Examining a wide range of texts and authors from early periods to the age of the climate crisis, this module will explore the many and various ways in which the non-human world is celebrated, championed and exploited by the literary imagination.

You will explore questions such as:

What do we mean by the ‘the environment’?

What experiences, meanings and values do we take from, or discover in our surroundings?

How have writers characterised the environment and in what ways might the literary imagination be significant for contemporary environmental concerns?

Modernism

The early 20th century explosion of literary experimentation known as Modernism was a movement informed by the catastrophe of the First World War, the convulsion that was the Russian Revolution and a host of dramatic developments in art, music, cinema, philosophy, theology, politics and science.

Alongside reading the literature of the time you will also consider various related artistic movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism and Vorticism. Authors covered typically include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and W. B. Yeats.

Philosophy For Times of Global Crisis

Interconnected global crises and states of ‘polycrises’ or ‘wicked problems’ impact upon the daily lives of millions of people across the globe. Environmental, financial, security, diplomatic, political and military concerns all pose acute problems of knowledge and understanding, require individual and collective action, and raise questions around duties and rights for addressing multi-faceted complex problems.

Philosophical reasoning can play a key role in helping individuals, politicians, states and societies navigate these challenges, and in shaping and critiquing the principles for taking action. In this module you will actively work on developing your own philosophical contributions to addressing global crises, studying topics which may include:

Themes from social epistemology, including the difficulty of creating shared knowledge in the face of societal challenges; institutions for scrutinising as well as disseminating knowledge claims; the need for diverse perspectives on so-called wicked problems, and also the challenges of combining and reconciling these.

Themes from the philosophy of collective action and metaphysics, including the ways in which human beings can cooperate outside of formal institutions and create new institutions to address societal and international problems, as well as problems of diffuse responsibility amid complex or changing social structures.

Themes from political philosophy, such as the difficulties and strengths of democratic institutions and the compromises they require; the challenges of reconciliation and institution-building after war and conflict; the challenges democracies face in light of populism, authoritarianism, corruption in the democratic process, and problems of disinformation.

Over the course of this module you will learn how different philosophical approaches can help us to think our way through our own responsibilities in these times, offering different perspectives on the various roles we can play in surviving, and even flourishing, in times of global crisis.

Philosophy Independent Project

In this module you will develop either a single extended piece or a portfolio of independent philosophical work. This may take the form of either (1) a philosophical dissertation or (2) a communication and engagement portfolio of outward-facing philosophical work targeting a diverse range of audiences.

1) Dissertation

Independent research and sustained long-form writing making up the core of professional academic philosophical study. With the Dissertation option, you have the opportunity to demonstrate your research and writing ability via completion of an independent dissertation project.

You will identify a specific philosophical topic from the wide range of research specialisms within Philosophy at Lancaster and, together with your allocated dissertation supervisor, develop a clear research question. you'll then engage with relevant primary and secondary texts to construct a compelling philosophical argument over a sustained piece of writing.

2) Communication and Engagement Portfolio

From public philosophy articles and podcasts to social media posts, science communications and policy advisory notes, academic philosophers regularly engage with, inform and persuade audiences beyond academia. This requires clear, compelling arguments and an understanding of the target audience.

With the Portfolio option, you will apply the philosophical skills and knowledge gained during your degree to communicate ideas to wider audiences. Working with your supervisor, and choosing from among the wide range of philosophical specialisms at Lancaster, you will develop a philosophical claim or perspective on a topic, engage in structured workshops to practice writing and presenting for diverse platforms, discuss your work with peers, and complete a portfolio of public-facing philosophy pieces across multiple media.

Whichever option you choose, this module is an opportunity for you to complete your undergraduate student journey by demonstrating that you can expand on the knowledge base you have developed through your degree, and use the philosophical skills your programme has helped you develop, to produce your own independent work in philosophy. In doing so, this module will help you demonstrate, and further develop, your advanced research and communication skills, preparing you for both further academic study in philosophy and for professional roles that require skills in research, critical thinking and independent thought.

Questions at the Frontiers of Philosophy

Engage with cutting-edge philosophical research, working with an academic philosopher on the topic of their live philosophical project and expertise. In this module you may be:

Reviewing and critically commenting on the chapters of a manuscript

Reading an academic’s recent publications and coming up with further questions and challenges to build on their ideas

Discussing your module supervisor's new research and it's relevancy to contemporary philosophical debates

In student-led and discussion-based workshops you will present your own summaries and arguments, take part in guided debates, and work on the challenge of your final written piece: a paper which is not only informed by, but may itself eventually inform, current debates within the discipline. In doing so you will be joining the practice, shared by all professional philosophers, of contributing to the understanding and development of the field itself.

The specific question/s you will work on will vary year by year, but will be drawn from the interests and expertise of Lancaster's philosophy staff. They might include, for example:

What is the best life for a human being

What do psychiatric diagnoses mean

What is personhood and what entities can be persons

How can we respect human autonomy while making public policy

What can combatant experience teach us about the ethics of war

In studying this module, you will deploy the skills you have developed in the first two years of your degree, gain in-depth knowledge of an important area of contemporary philosophical inquiry, and further sharpen skills in argument and critique – critical skills for both postgraduate study and a range of post-study careers.

Romanticism

Study key texts and contexts from a short but remarkably intense period of literary history. Encompassing the work of writers such as Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and Shelley, you will explore the role of nature, the imagination and the sublime. You will also consider the emergence of the Gothic tradition and examine the interactions between literary and politics in a turbulent era of revolution and change.

Shakespeare

Ben Jonson claimed of Shakespeare ‘he was not of an age but for all time.’ This module, however, examines Shakespearean drama and poetry in its own time and as a platform in which early modern debates about agency and government, family and national identity, were put into play. The stage was and is a place in which questions of gender, class and race, gain immediacy through the bodies and voices of actors.

By examining texts from across Shakespeare’s career, you will explore their power to shape thoughts and feelings in both their own age and in ours. You will consider how, in the past and in the present, Shakespeare’s texts exploit the emotional and political possibilities of poetry and drama.

The assessment of this module normally concludes with either an essay OR a creative engagement (e.g. reading, performance, artwork) plus critical reflection.

Special Topics in Theory

What is critical theory? Why is it one of the most controversial areas of contemporary culture today? And to what extent do theoretical ideas about power, race, gender and identity change the way we think about the world?

On this module you will explore a range of classic and contemporary themes, trends and topics in critical theory from the 1960s to the present. You’ll take a deep dive into key thinkers like Foucault, Deleuze and Agamben and key concepts like biopolitics, globalisation and animal studies.

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The University provides limited financial support to assist students who do not have the required IT equipment or broadband support in place.

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Placement and industry year courses

In addition to possible commuting costs during your placement, you may need to buy clothing that is suitable for your workplace and you may have accommodation costs. Depending on the employer and your job, you may have other costs such as copies of personal documents required by your employer for example.

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We will charge tuition fees to Home undergraduate students on full-year study abroad/work placements in line with the maximum amounts permitted by the Department for Education. The current maximum levels are:

Students studying abroad for a year: 15% of the standard tuition fee

Students taking a work placement for a year: 20% of the standard tuition fee

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Students studying abroad for a year: 15% of the standard international tuition fee during the Study Abroad year

Students taking a work placement for a year: 20% of the standard international tuition fee during the Placement year

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