Programme Specification for the 2020/1 academic year
BA (Hons) Philosophy and History with Study Abroad
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) Philosophy and History with Study Abroad | Programme code | UFA4HPSHPS33 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time |
Academic year | 2020/1 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
Programme start date | 09/2014 |
| NQF Level | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
This degree combines the study of Philosophy and History, enabling you to develop analytical and reasoning skills while deepening your knowledge of history across different time periods and countries. You will also spend the third year of this four-year degree studying overseas, either through the Erasmus scheme in Europe or with a partner institution elsewhere in the world.
Studying Philosophy will give you the opportunity to discuss long-standing questions about the nature of knowledge (how do we know what we know?), science (does science provide us with a special kind of knowledge?), reality (does the world out there really exist?), ethics (how should we act?), art and beauty (who decides what counts as beautiful?), the mind-body relationship (how can the brain produce the mind?), the meaning of life (why is there something rather than nothing?) and more.
From the beginning you will be encouraged to develop your own views on all these topics, and to assess other philosophers’ take on them. Studying philosophy will teach you to think rigorously, to defend your views in a clear and consistent way, to understand the why and what-for of different points of view, and ultimately to develop a sharp, analytical and open mind.
History will take you on a fascinating journey of the human race by exploring its activities, institutions and ideas. You will have the opportunity to tailor your studies to your own interests by choosing from a diverse range of options. These may range in time from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the Cold War, in place from Latin America to Asia and Africa, and in content from modern political movements and parties to women’s history and material culture.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
1. To offer you an excellent Honours-level education in Philosophy and History.
2. To ensure that graduates from the programme are useful, productive and questioning members of society.
3. To produce graduates who are grounded in the main themes of Philosophy through a combination of modules which develop a deep understanding of some pervasive and problematic features of the world and of ourselves.
4. To produce graduates who are grounded in the main themes of History through a combination of both broad and detailed focuses on particular aspects of the past, study of a range of time periods, and study of different geographical areas; who understand the methods which historians use to study the past; and who can analyse the development of past societies.
5. To develop your competence in the specific skills required in History and in Philosophy, and in core academic and personal and key skills.
6. To offer you a wide range of choice within the programme of study, insofar as this choice is consistent with the coherence and intellectual rigour of the degree.
7. To offer students the opportunity to develop their skills and capabilities (including linguistic skills, where appropriate) through the pursuit of study in another University in a different geographical and cultural setting.
The programme aims:
4. Programme Structure
The programme is studied over four years. The first two years, and the final year, are university-based; the third is spent at a university abroad. Study is undertaken in four stages, one for each year of study. The programme is divided into units called modules. Modules have a credit rating of either 15 or 30 credits; 15-credit modules last for one term and 30-credit ones usually for two, although the Varieties of History are intensive 30-credit modules taken over one term. Each stage comprises 120 credits.
The full list of modules is available (with module descriptions) for Philosophy at http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/moduledescriptions/
and for History at https://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
If students wish to undertake their study abroad in a University which does not teach in English, they must normally take 30 credits from the Foreign Language Centre at stages 1 and 2 in the appropriate language. In doing this they would be deemed to have exercised their rights under the University’s modularity provisions.
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
The full list of modules is available (with module descriptions) for Philosophy at
https://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/taught/mods_by_cat.php
Under the University’s rules on modularity, students may take up to 30 credits per year in another department.
Stage 1
For Philosophy - at least 3 of these core modules (PHL1002A, PHL1002B, PHL1005A and PHL1006) must be taken
Optional modules: You may choose up to 1 module from PHL1007, PHL1008, PHL1013, PHL1036 and PHL1112
For History - you will study throughout the year EITHER Understanding the Medieval and Early Modern World (30 credits), OR Understanding the Modern World (30 credits) and Making History (15 credits). You will also study ONE Sources and Skills Module (15 credits).
Compulsory Modules
For Philosophy - 3 of the 4 core modules must be chosen
For History - HIH1410 or HIH1420 and HIH1400 must be chosen
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL1002A | Knowledge and Reality 1 at least 45 credits of core modules | 15 | No |
| PHL1002B | Knowledge and Reality 2 | 15 | No |
| PHL1005A | Evidence and Argument 1 | 15 | No |
| PHL1006 | Introduction to Philosophical Analysis | 15 | No |
| HISS HIH1410 or HIH1420 | |||
| HIH1410 | Understanding the Medieval and Early-Modern World | 30 | Yes |
| HIH1420 | Understanding the Modern World | 30 | Yes |
| HIH1400 | Making History | 15 | No |
Optional Modules
You will also study one of the History Sources and Skills modules (15 credits). These modules are designed to give you grounding in some of the main themes and methodologies of History as a subject. They also offer an overview across a broad span of time so that you can decide whether you wish to pursue particular subjects or periods in greater depth in Year 2 or maintain a broader perspective.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HISS S1 BA CH opt 2020-1 | |||
| HIH1057 | The Opium War: the British Empire encounters the Middle Kingdom | 15 | No |
| HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 15 | No |
| HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | No |
| HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | No |
| HIH1402 | Britain, America, and the Global Order, 1846-1946 | 15 | No |
| HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | No |
| HIH1600 | Images of Stalinism | 15 | No |
| HIH1053 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
| HIH1136 | 'Dangerous woman'? The lives and afterlives of Emma Goldman | 15 | No |
| PHL S1 BA Philosophy SH opt 2019-0 | |||
| PHL1003 | Philosophical Readings 5 | 15 | No |
| PHL1004 | Philosophical Problems 1 | 15 | No |
| PHL1007 | Philosophical Reading 1 | 15 | No |
| PHL1008 | Philosophical Reading 2 | 15 | No |
| PHL1009 | Philosophies of Art | 15 | No |
| PHL1013 | Philosophy of Morality | 15 | No |
| PHL1112 | Philosophy of Film | 15 | No |
| PHL1010 | Introduction to Asian Philosophy | 15 | No |
| Total Credits for Stage 1 | 120 |
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Stage 2
You will study 60 credits from each discipline.
For Philosophy, 45 credits must be chosen from PHL2XXX "core"modules, plus an additional 15 credits from available options.
For the History modules, you need to choose one of four pathways:
PATHWAY A:- 2 x History Options modules (one from each term)
PATHWAY B:- 1 x History Options module (Term 1), HIH2001 (Term 2)
PATHWAY C:- HIH2002 (Term 1), 1x History Option module (Term 2).
PATHWAY D:- HIH2002 (Term 1), HIH2001 (Term 2)
If you are planning to do a History dissertation at Stage 3, you MUST take either Pathway B or D, which includes the pre-requisite module HIH2001.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIH2001 | Doing History: Perspectives on Sources For the History dissertation | 30 | No |
| PHL S2 BA Philosophy SH comp 2019-0 at least 45 credits of core modules | |||
| PHL2010A | Philosophy of Mind 1 | 15 | No |
| PHL2011A | The Philosophy of Nature 1 | 15 | No |
| PHL2012 | Social Philosophy | 15 | No |
| PHL2015 | Body and Mind | 15 | No |
| PHL2016 | Metaphysics | 15 | No |
| PHL2018 | Philosophy of Language | 15 | No |
Optional Modules
Optional History modules can be found at the following link: https://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HISS S2 BA CH opt 2020-1 | |||
| HIH2001 | Doing History: Perspectives on Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
| HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
| HIH2016A | Living Through the Global: Colonial Migrants and the British Empire from the Eighteenth Century to the Present | 30 | No |
| HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | No |
| HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
| HIH2092A | Europe in the Tenth Century: Continuity and Change | 30 | No |
| HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body, and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
| HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| HIH2200A | Islam and the Making of Medieval Europe, c.600-1300 | 30 | No |
| HIH2209A | African American History | 30 | No |
| HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | No |
| HIH2030A | Peoples and Empires in Latin America, 1492-1820s | 30 | No |
| HIH2034A | Anarchism: Theory, Practice, History | 30 | No |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
| HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
| HIH2181A | The Witchcraze in Europe and its Colonies c.1300-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2203A | Crime and Society in England, 1500-1800 | 30 | No |
| PHL S2 BA Philosophy SH opt 2019-0 up to 15 credits of optional modules | |||
| PHL2001 | Phenomenology | 15 | No |
| PHL2002 | Existentialism | 15 | No |
| PHL2021 | Symbolic Logic | 15 | No |
| PHL2022 | Sex and Death: Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology | 15 | No |
| PHL2024A | Philosophical Readings 3 | 15 | No |
| PHL2025A | Philosophical Readings 4 | 15 | No |
| PHL2026 | Philosophy of Science | 15 | No |
| PHL2027 | Feminist Philosophy | 15 | No |
| PHL2035 | Critical Bioethics | 15 | No |
| PHL2038 | The Self | 15 | No |
| PHL2045 | Aesthetics | 15 | No |
| PHL2046 | The Holocaust and Society | 15 | No |
| PHL2051 | The Human Condition: Classic Readings in Anthropology | 15 | No |
| PHL2052 | Epistemology | 15 | No |
| PHL2053 | History of Philosophy | 15 | No |
| PHL2054 | Philosophy of Psychiatry | 15 | No |
| PHL2060 | Philosophy of Emotion | 15 | No |
| PHL2061 | Philosophy of Law | 15 | No |
| PHL2096 | Cyborg Studies | 15 | No |
| PHL2100 | Knowledge and History: Theories of Scientific Change | 15 | No |
| PHL2105 | Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance | 15 | No |
| PHL2108 | Fundamental Ontology | 15 | No |
| PHL2109 | Philosophy with Children | 15 | No |
| PHL2111 | The Deep Past, History and Humanity | 15 | No |
| PHL2112 | Practical Ethics | 15 | No |
| PHL2055 | Ecology, Environment and Conservation | 15 | No |
| Total Credits for Stage 2 | 120 |
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Stage 3
Students spend this stage in a partner University on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange or other approved programme of study. The year abroad comprises 120 credits. Assessment is normally based on the credits gained at the partner institution abroad.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSI3999 | Year Abroad | 120 | No |
| Total Credits for Stage 3 | 120 |
|---|
Stage 4
Students must take one of three pathways. See below for details
Students may only opt for Pathway C if they have taken Pathway B HIH2001 Doing History at level 2.
Compulsory Modules
Students may only write a maximum of ONE dissertation: EITHER a Philosophy dissertation OR a History dissertation.
Pathway A
Two co-requisite History Special Subject modules (2 x 30) 60 Credits
PHL3040
Pathway B
History Comparative module 30 Credits
HIH3005 History Dissertation 30 Credits
Plus Philosophy Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL3040 | Philosophy Dissertation Pathway A | 30 | No |
| HIH3005 | General Third-Year Dissertation Pathway B | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
Optional History modules can be found at the following link: https://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL SF BA Philosophy SH opt 2019-0 30 credits of optional modules | |||
| PHL3002 | Existentialism | 15 | No |
| PHL3014 | Symbolic Logic | 15 | No |
| PHL3018 | Sex and Death: Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology | 15 | No |
| PHL3024A | Philosophical Readings 3 | 15 | No |
| PHL3025A | Philosophical Readings 4 | 15 | No |
| PHL3026 | Philosophy of Science | 15 | No |
| PHL3035 | Critical Bioethics | 15 | No |
| PHL3038 | The Self | 15 | No |
| PHL3041 | Feminist Philosophy | 15 | No |
| PHL3045 | Aesthetics | 15 | No |
| PHL3051 | The Human Condition: Classic Readings in Anthropology | 15 | No |
| PHL3052 | Epistemology | 15 | No |
| PHL3053 | History of Philosophy | 15 | No |
| PHL3054 | Philosophy of Psychiatry | 15 | No |
| PHL3060 | Philosophy of Emotion | 15 | No |
| PHL3061 | Philosophy of Law | 15 | No |
| PHL3096 | Cyborg Studies | 15 | No |
| PHL3100 | Knowledge and History: Theories of Scientific Change | 15 | No |
| PHL3108 | Fundamental Ontology | 15 | No |
| PHL3111 | The Deep Past, History and Humanity | 15 | No |
| PHL3113 | Practical Ethics | 15 | No |
| PHL3056 | The Nature of Normativity | 15 | No |
| PHL3112 | Ecology, Environment and Conservation | 15 | No |
| POL3247 | Politics of Biology | 15 | No |
| PHL3013 | Virtues and Vices | 15 | No |
| PHL3042 | Philosophical Anthropology | 15 | No |
| PHL3075 | Philosophical Readings 6 | 15 | No |
| PHL3110 | Philosophy of Emotion | 30 | No |
| PHL3114 | Aristotle's Ethics | 15 | No |
| PHL3115 | Introduction to Critical Theory | 15 | No |
| POL2050 | Political Philosophy | 15 | No |
| POL2059 | Political Thought of Modernity | 15 | No |
| THE3185 | Incarnation: Topics in Philosophical Theology | 30 | No |
| SPA3001 | Debates, Issues and Practices | 15 | No |
| HISS SF BA Comparative modules 2020-1 | |||
| HIH3617 | News, Media and Communication | 30 | No |
| HIH3618 | Power Elites: Ruling Groups across Space and Time | 30 | No |
| HIH3619 | Sexualities | 30 | No |
| HIH3626 | Heroes: Conceptions, Constructions and Representations | 30 | No |
| HIH3629 | Disease | 30 | No |
| HIH3632 | Violence | 30 | No |
| HIH3633 | Revolutions | 30 | No |
| HIH3634 | Race, Resistance, and Decolonisation | 30 | No |
| HISS SF BA Sources and Contexts 2020-1 | |||
| HIH3038 | The Invisible Empires: American Society and the Ku Klux Klan since 1866: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3039 | The Invisible Empires: American Society and the Ku Klux Klan since 1866: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3042 | Britain and the Age of Revolution, 1775-1832 (Sources) | 30 | No |
| HIH3043 | Britain and the Age of Revolution, 1775-1832 (Context) | 30 | No |
| HIH3110 | The Celtic Frontier: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3111 | The Celtic Frontier: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3117 | The Age of AEthelred 'the Unready': Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3118 | The Age of AEthelred 'the Unready': Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3157 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3158 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3182 | Critics of Empire: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3183 | Critics of Empire: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3187 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3188 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3206 | A New Jerusalem? Being Protestant in Post-Reformation England: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3207 | A New Jerusalem? Being Protestant in Post-Reformation England: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3216 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3217 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3257 | The Russian Revolution: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3258 | The Russian Revolution: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3266 | Magic in the Middle Ages: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3267 | Magic in the Middle Ages: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3314 | Governing the World: A History of Internationalism from WW1 to the Present: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3315 | Governing the World: A History of Internationalism from WW1 to the Present: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3316 | The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3317 | The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3318 | Health and its Politics in the 20th Century: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3319 | Health and its Politics in the 20th Century: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3320 | Making A New China: Ideas, Networks, and the Intelligentsia: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3321 | Making A New China: Ideas, Networks, and the Intelligentsia: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3322 | Crusades in Christendom, 1179-1588: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3323 | Crusades in Christendom, 1179-1588: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3325 | Britain and Slavery: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3624 | Literature, Culture, and Politics in Early Modern England: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3625 | Literature, Culture, and Politics in Early Modern England: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3324 | Britain and Slavery: Sources | 30 | No |
| Total Credits for Stage 4 | 120 |
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6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. PHILOSOPHY: Show familiarity with philosophical ideas about the nature of society and the social sciences | In explicit terms, 1 and 2 are developed through lectures, seminars and essay work on PHL1002A and PHL1005A; 3 and 4 through similar methods and strategies on Knowledge and Reality, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Nature; 5 and 6 through similar methods on Ethics; and 7 through similar methods on PHL2010A, PHL2012. However, depending on the student’s chosen portfolio of modules, they will be developed, with increasing intensity as s/he progresses through the Stages, on the elective modules as well. 8 is developed through the optional modules taken. The level of competence expected of students intensifies at each stage of the programme. 9, 10 and 11 are developed at stage 1 in the Making History, though lectures, seminars, and written work. 10 and 11 form the backbone of all History modules taken at all stages, but the level of complexity and nuance develops according to stage. The choice of essays that they are given in all modules develops 12 in students from the outset of their programme. Where applicable, students are encouraged to use the stage 2 'Doing History' as a way of addressing 12, and concentrate on doing so in the History Dissertation at stage 3; it is also developed throughout the programme through essay work. 13 is a requirement of all History modules, but there is particular primary source emphasis developing in complexity as the student progresses through the stages of the programme at stage 1 in History Sources and Skills, at stage 2 in History Options (and 'Doing History', where applicable) and at stage 3 in whichever are opted for among History Options, Special Subject and Dissertation. Students are given clear guidelines about 14 in the Philosophy and History Undergraduate Handbook, are instructed in such matters in Making History, and are expected to demonstrate it in all modules. 15 is developed through the Sources and Skills modules and may be developed in other modules, particularly, but not solely, some of the elective modules in History, Economy and Culture, which are open to Philosophy and History students. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of the following: The criteria of assessment pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined. |
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
16. Draw thematic comparisons between material from different sources. Examine critically any form of discourse arising from the close reading and analysis of texts. (LRS 4.5.1) | These skills are developed throughout the degree programme, but the emphasis becomes more complex as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both presentation and class discussion). | These skills are assessed through the following: |
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
34. Undertake independent study and ability to work to deadlines. | 34 is an essential part of the successful completion of the programme. 35 is developed through the requirement that all written work be word-processed, and through the requirement on students to use the WWW for bibliographical searches. 36 is developed through essay and presentation work throughout the programme. 37 is developed through the self-assessment of work in the stage 1 History Sources and Skills module, and through the qualitative self-assessment involved in completing cover sheets for all essays and presentations. 38 is developed through practice: at all stages, students are partly assessed by timed, unseen examinations. 39 is developed through seminars, which form the whole (History Sources and Skills, and, where applicable, Special Subjects) or part basis of all modules. 40 is developed throughout the Philosophy side of the programme, but most explicitly in PHL1002A and PHL1005A. The skills in 41 and 42 are developed to some extent in all modules, through interaction in seminars and in discussion with tutors about essay work, and in response to criticism both collective and individual. However, there is particular emphasis on 41 (and 43) in stage 1 Sources and Skills, where students work as part of a team to present and respond to the presentations of others, and in the group presentations in Special Subjects, where applicable, at stage 3. 44 is developed through the through the Stage 3 Dissertation, which has a single end of year deadline, and, where applicable, 'Doing History' at stage 2 (3 formal deadlines over the year). Peer assessment (45) (where applicable) forms the basis of Uses of the Past. | The skills in 34, 35 and 36 are assessed in all History modules. 36 is covered by the fact that students write essays which are summatively assessed of differing lengths, viz 1,500 words in Understanding the Medieval and Early Modern World and Understanding the Modern World, 2,500-3,000 in Specials, 3,000 in Options, and 9-10,000 in the Dissertation: sources work for Specials varies from 500 or 1,000 words to 2,000 words in length. 40 is assessed explicitly on PHL1005A and forms a basic tenet of examination elsewhere in the Philosophy side of the programme. 44 is covered by the Dissertation (in either subject) and, (where applicable), to a lesser extent, 'Doing History'. Where applicable, team work skills are formally assessed in Uses of the Past by peer assessment of group presentations (41-43, 45). |
7. Programme Regulations
University Regulations on the number of credits to be taken and at what level for each stage of the programme can be found in the Credit and Qualifications Framework.
Progression
Condonement is the process that allows you to be awarded credit (and so progress to the next stage or, in the final stage, receive an award), despite failing to achieve a pass mark at a first attempt. You are not entitled to reassessment in condoned credit. Regulations on condonement can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
Assessment and Awards
For undergraduate degrees assessment at stage one does not contribute to the summative classification of the award. Details of the weightings for each year of all programme lengths can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes and the classification of awards can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
You can also read details of Generic Marking Criteria.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
Personal and Academic Tutoring
It is University policy that all Colleges should have in place a system of academic and personal tutors. The role of academic tutors is to support you with individual modules; the role of personal tutors is to provide you with advice and support fo the duration of your programme, and this support extends to providing you with details of how to obtain support and guidance on personal difficulties such as accommodation, financial difficulties and sickness. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
Information on the College Personal Tutoring system, library provision, ELE resources and access to College support services can be found on the College webpages for current students.
Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC)
SSLCs enable students and staff to jointly participate in the management and review of the teaching and learning provision.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Learning Resources
The University Library maintains its principal collections in the main library buildings on the Streatham and St Luke's campuses, together with a number of specialist collections in certain Colleges. The total Library collection comprises over a million volumes and 3000 current periodical subscriptions.
IT Services
A wide range of IT services are provided throughout the Exeter campuses, including open-access computer rooms, some of which are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Helpdesks are maintained on the Streatham and St Luke's campuses, while most study bedrooms in halls and flats are linked to the University's campus network.
Student Support Services
The University provides many support services including health and wellbeing, multifaith chaplaincy, family support, the Students' Guild and international student support.
10. Admissions Criteria
All applications are considered individually on merit. The University is committed to an equal opportunities policy with respect to gender, age, race, sexual orientation and/or disability when dealing with applications. It is also committed to widening access to higher education to students from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience.
Candidates for undergraduate programmes must satisfy the undergraduate admissions requirements of the University of Exeter.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
Certain programmes are subject to accreditation and/or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
The University and its constituent Colleges draw on a range of data to review the quality of education provision. The College documents the performance in each of its tuaght programmes, against a range of criteria on an annual basis through the Annual Student Experience Review (ASER).
Subject areas are reviewed every five years through a College Academic Audit scheme that includes external contributions.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Social Sciences and International Studies (CSSIS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
College of Humanities (CHUM)Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) Philosophy and History with Study Abroad
19. UCAS Code
VV5C
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] History
[Honours] Philosophy
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 01/10/2000 |
Date of last revision | 29/08/2018 |
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