Philosophy
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI1001 | History of Philosophy: (a) Ancient Philosophy and (b) Medieval Philosophy | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| PHI1014 | Political Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI1028 | Philosophical Practice | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI1090 | Philosophy: Tools and Problems | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI1006 | History of Philosophy: (a) Modern Philosophy and (b) Contemporary Philosophy | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| PHI1017 | Ethics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI1024 | Epistemology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:26 ECTS credits in Philosophy26 ECTS credits in the other area8 ECTS credits in optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 28 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI2044 | Theories of Consciousness | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2120 | Metaphysics 1: Ontology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| PHI2005 | Philosophy of Religion | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2029* | Early Modern Ideas: Science, Politics and Religion | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2034 | Phenomenology and Existentialism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2047 | Aristotle's Ethics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2051 | Aesthetics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2101 | Life, Death, and Passion | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3043 | Frege: Conceptual Notation (Begriffsschrift) | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3045 | Contemporary Analytic Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3054 | The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3067 | A Critical Reading of Descartes Meditations | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| * Study-unit PHI2029 is offered on alternate years. | |||||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI2001 | Logic | 6 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2121 | Philosophy of Language | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| PHI2036 | Set Text in Analytic Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2039 | Doing Philosophy in the Islamic World | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2123 | Metaphysics 2: Natural Theology and Atheism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3026 | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3028 | Philosophy of the Media | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3031 | Philosophy of Mathematics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3046 | Contemporary Continental Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3047 | Philosophy and Technology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3052 | Philosophy of the Animal | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3072 | Pascal's Pensees - A Critical Study | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:46 ECTS credits in Philosophy10 ECTS credits in the subsidiary area4 ECTS credits optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 36 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI3099 | Dissertation | 12 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| PHI2005 | Philosophy of Religion | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2034 | Phenomenology and Existentialism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2047 | Aristotle's Ethics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2051 | Aesthetics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2053* | Women in Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2101 | Life, Death, and Passion | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3039* | Thematic Readings in Political Thought | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3043 | Frege: Conceptual Notation (Begriffsschrift) | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3045 | Contemporary Analytic Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3054 | The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3067 | A Critical Reading of Descartes Meditations | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| * Study-units PHI2053 and PHI3039 are offered on alterante years. | |||||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| PHI3010 | Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Philosophy | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| PHI3011 | Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Philosophy | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| PHI2036 | Set Text in Analytic Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2039 | Doing Philosophy in the Islamic World | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI2123 | Metaphysics 2: Natural Theology and Atheism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3023** | Philosophy of Science | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3026 | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3028 | Philosophy of the Media | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3031 | Philosophy of Mathematics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3046 | Contemporary Continental Philosophy | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3047 | Philosophy and Technology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3052 | Philosophy of the Animal | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| PHI3072 | Pascal's Pensees - A Critical Study | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ** Study-unit PHI3023 is offered on alternate years. | |||||||||||
Requirement for successful completion to Year 3:60 ECTS credits in PhilosophyRequirement for award of B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy: 180 ECTS credits, of which:132 ECTS credits in Philosophy36 ECTS credits in the Subsidiary area 12 ECTS credits in optional units
English
In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1077 | Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ENG1082 | Shakespeare and Tudor Drama | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1076 | Genre: Prose | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1083 | Introduction to English Syntax and Phonetics | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ENG1173 | Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1174 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1078 | Writing Seminars 1 | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1274 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1071 | Chaucer: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1080 | English in Society 1 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1273 | Romantic Poets 2: Byron, Keats, Shelley | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1278 | The Art of the Essay | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:26 ECTS credits in English26 ECTS credits in the other area8 ECTS credits in optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
Students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG2033 | Maltese Literature in English | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2077 | Practical Criticism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2081 | The Modern Novel | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2099 | From Plato to Pater | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG2031 | Studying English Language at Undergraduate Level | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2049 | Topics in English Pragmatics | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2053 | The Postcolonial Novel (Australian) | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2054 | Metaphysical Poetry and Baroque Writing in England | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2068 | Medieval Literature into Film | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2071 | Shakespeare into Film | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2078 | Writing Seminars 2 | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2096 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2118 | Aspects of English Phonology | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2133 | Maltese Literature in English: Prose | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2177 | Practical Criticism: Narrative | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2180 | Nineteenth Century American Poetry: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2199 | From Plato to Pater (Part 1) | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2255 | Eighteenth-Century Prose 2: Further Studies | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2480 | English in Society 2 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG3091 | Linguistics Seminar 1 and 2 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1372 | Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2007 | Milton and the Epic Voice | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2030 | Second Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2042 | The English Novel in the Later Nineteenth Century: Henry James | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2052 | The Postcolonial Novel 1: African | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2057 | Stylistics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2063 | Theories of Literature 3: Gender and Power | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2064 | Theories of Literature 4: Postcolonialism | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2067 | Chaucer and Medieval Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2092 | Travel Writing | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2097 | Children's Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2173 | Modern Drama | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2176 | Victorian Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2276 | Modern Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2277 | Practical Criticism: Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2299 | English Language Studies IV | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2333 | Maltese Literature in English: Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2380 | Nineteenth Century American Short Story | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - B.A. (Hons) - under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.