This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies.
This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of classes in the ST. Structured activities during the reading week in the MT and LT. Revision workshops and tutorals in the ST. This course has reading weeks in week 6 of Michaelmas and Lent terms.
Two essays per year; topically based research presentations.
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment &?The Grand Inquisitor; Kafka Metamorphosis & The Trial; Nabokov?Lolita &?Despair,?Celan Todesfuge and other poems;?St-Exupery The Little Prince; Solzhenitzyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Camus L'Etranger &?The Myth of Sisyphus; Kundera?The Unbearable Lightness of Being;?Stoppard Dogg's Hamlet Cahoot's Macbeth
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (30%, 2500 words) in the LT.