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Philosophy and Theology BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Religion and philosophy are two of the most profound influences on individuals and society. By studying them together you'll get to understand:

  • the overlaps and differences
  • how they support and disagree with each other
  • their personal, historical, and cultural importance

You'll cover issues from the deeply personal to society-wide concerns, developing a greater understanding of different ways of living.

This degree will transform how you think and feel about fundamental issues of human existence.

Theology

  • Study biblical writings together with key thinkers, ideas, events and movements that shaped the course of Western Christian thought
  • Examine the key texts, thinkers, ideas and events in the history of Islam and Judaism

Philosophy

  • Study topics, figures, and themes from across the Western, Indian, Chinese and Africana traditions
  • Explore crime and justice, race and gender, politics and religion, the environment and society
  • Apply philosophical thinking to everyday issues

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Reasoning, Argument, and Logic

Mandatory

Year 1

Mind, Knowledge, and Ethics

Optional

Year 1

Metaphysics, Science, and Language

Optional

Year 1

Philosophy of Religions

Optional

Year 1

History of Philosophy: Ancient to Modern

Optional

Year 1

Gender, Justice, and Society

Optional

Year 1

Philosophy and the Contemporary World

Optional

Year 1

Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

Optional

Year 1

Interpreting the New Testament

Optional

Year 1

Christianity and the Challenge of Modernity

Optional

Year 1

Interpreting Islam

Optional

Year 1

Interpreting Judaism

Optional

Year 1

Philosophy for Theologians

Optional

Year 1

The Bible in Music, Art and Literature

Optional

Year 1

Atheism

Optional

Year 1

Religion, Media and Ethics

Optional

Year 1

Big Questions in Theology and Religious Studies

Optional

Year 1

Reading World Religions

Optional

Year 1

Biblical Hebrew

Mandatory

Year 2

Religion in Britain: Interfaith Encounters in a Secular Age

Optional

Year 2

Exile and Homeland: Jewish Culture, Thought and Politics in Modern Europe and Mandatory Palestine between 1890 and 1950

Optional

Year 2

Body and Soul: Christian Theological Anthropology

Optional

Year 2

The Theology of Paul

Optional

Year 2

Islamic Theology and Philosophy

Optional

Year 2

Africana Philosophies and Religions

Optional

Year 2

The Philosophy of Religion

Optional

Year 2

Jewish Theology and Philosophy from Philo to Kabbalah

Optional

Year 2

Beginners Greek for Second and Third Years

Optional

Year 2

Intermediate Biblical Hebrew

Optional

Year 2

Social Philosophy

Optional

Year 2

Topics in Asian Philosophy

Optional

Year 2

Freedom and Obligation

Optional

Year 2

Mind and Consciousness

Optional

Year 2

Normative Ethics

Optional

Year 2

Being, Becoming and Reality

Optional

Year 2

Philosophy of Art

Optional

Year 2

The Nature of Meaning

Optional

Year 2

Knowledge and Justification

Optional

Year 2

An Introduction to Metaethics

Optional

Year 2

Continental Philosophy

Optional

Year 2

Space, Time and Motion

Optional

Year 2

Employing the Arts

Optional

Year 2

Arts Work Placement Module

Optional

Year 3

Dissertation in Philosophy

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Logic

Optional

Year 3

Marx

Optional

Year 3

Buddhist Philosophy

Optional

Year 3

Communicating Philosophy

Optional

Year 3

Environmental Ethics

Optional

Year 3

Philosophy and Mortality

Optional

Year 3

Knowledge, Ignorance and Democracy

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Topics in Aesthetics

Optional

Year 3

Play, Games and Recreation

Optional

Year 3

Mind, Psychology and Mental Health

Optional

Year 3

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Optional

Year 3

Authenticity, Freedom and Ethics

Optional

Year 3

Equality

Optional

Year 3

Dirty Talk: Feminist Philosophy of Language

Optional

Year 3

Dissertation in Theology

Optional

Year 3

Islamic Theology and Philosophy

Optional

Year 3

Jewish Theology and Philosophy from Philo to Kabbalah

Optional

Year 3

The Theology of Paul

Optional

Year 3

The Philosophy of Religion

Optional

Year 3

Exile and Homeland: Jewish Culture, Thought and Politics in Modern Europe and Mandatory Palestine between 1890 and 1950

Optional

Year 3

Body and Soul: Christian Theological Anthropology

Optional

Year 3

Africana Philosophies and Religions

Optional

Year 3

Intermediate Biblical Hebrew

Optional

Year 3

Beginners Greek for Second and Third Years

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Thursday 23 January 2025. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

The department is a great learning atmosphere full of friendly professionals. The eclectic research of the tutors can bring you into contact with literature, history, archaeology, art history and continental philosophy – something for all students of the programme. 

Jack Murphy

BA Philosophy and Theology

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