Course summary
Philosophy and the Arts is an interdisciplinary degree, allowing you to combine philosophy with any or all of the three arts disciplines. This MA is designed for students to take advantage of Warwick's strengths across Philosophy, English, History of Art and Film and Television Studies. Course overview This course allows you to combine the study of philosophy with any/all of three arts disciplines. Warwick has been a home for interdisciplinary work in philosophy and literature since the early days of the university. This degree is designed to take advantage of our strengths across Philosophy, English and Comparative Literary Studies, History of Art, and Film and Television Studies. Warwick has excellent research strength in all of these areas, and it also has considerable scholarly interaction across these fields, especially through the programming of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts.
Modules
Core modules
- Topics in Philosophy and the Arts
- Kant’s Aesthetics
- Hegel's Aesthetics
- Revolutionary Aesthetics
- Origins of Mind
- Husserl on Knowledge
- World Literature and the Anthropocene
- Critical Theory, Culture, Resistance
- Feminist Literary Theory
- Queer Theory and Praxis
- Ecopoetics
- Screen Cultures and Methods
- Film Criticism, Film Style
- Issues in Documentary
- Irony in Film
- Post-Colonial Cinemas
- Colour and its Meaning
- Visual Art and Poetry
- Reality after Film
- Latin American Modernism
Assessment method
You will submit assessed essays during the academic terms. If you take the dissertation route, you will also begin planning your dissertation and generally you will undertake your supervision sessions for this with your agreed supervisor during the summer term. As long as you pass your taught components, you will then focus on completion of your MA dissertation in the summer months of July and August.
Entry requirements
**Minimum requirements** 2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject; a writing sample of around 2,500 words on a philosophical topic. See our departmental guidance. **English language requirements** You can find out more about our English language requirements. This course requires the following: - Band B - IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above. **International qualifications** We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications. For more information, please visit the international entry requirements page. **Additional requirements** There are no additional entry requirements for this course.
Fees and funding
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Provider information
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL