Admissions

UCAS code

Philosophy and:

Celtic VQ55
Beginners' Czech VR5R
Czech VR57
French VR51
German VR52
Beginners' Modern Greek VR59
Modern Greek VQ57
Beginners' Italian RV35
Italian VR53
Beginners' Portuguese VR5M
Portuguese VR55
Russian VRM7
Spanish VR54

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Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 4 years, including compulsory year abroad
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 18
Applications shortlisted for interview: 87.5%
Successful applications: 35.9%

Open days

See Modern Languages
Tutors from the Philosophy Faculty will be available on 27 April 2013 to discuss this joint course.

Contact details

Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street,
Oxford OX1 4JJ
+44 (0) 1865 276926
Please email us at enquiries@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
View Philosophy website

Modern Languages
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,
41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF
+44 (0) 1865 270750
Please email us at reception@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
View Modern Languages website

Philosophy and Modern Languages

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A typical weekly timetable

Your work is divided between tutorials (one or two weekly), lectures (typically about six hours weekly) and classes (first-year logic, language classes throughout the course, typically about two to three hours weekly). The rest of your week will be spent in private study to prepare essays for tutorials.

1st year

Courses

Philosophy:

Introduction to philosophy

General philosophy
Moral philosophy
Logic

Modern Languages:

Translation into and from a European language and other exercises in the foreign language; two papers on the literature of the relevant language

Assessment

First University examinations:
Six written papers: two in Philosophy, four in Modern Languages

2nd and 4th years

Compulsory core subjects:

Philosophy:

Either History of philosophy from Descartes to Kant
or Plato’s Republic
or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Modern Languages:

Three language papers
One period of literature paper
One further paper from a list of options

Further options:

Either four further papers in Philosophy (many options, including thesis)
or three further papers in Philosophy and one in Modern Languages (which may be an extended essay)
or two further papers in Philosophy and two in Modern Languages

Assessment

Final University examinations: Nine papers (with a minimum of three in Philosophy and four in Modern Languages). One Philosophy paper may be replaced by a thesis. Some Modern Languages papers may be replaced by a thesis or a portfolio of essays; Modern Languages oral