Overview

Within this Philosophy part 2 module from The Open University UK, your tutor will help you build on your capacity for independent research, and you will have ample opportunity to liaise with fellow-students online. The tutorial strategy, which involves both tutors and module team authors, will encourage independent thought using the huge range of online books and articles available via the OU Library. Finally, you will be able to complete a dissertation on a topic of your choice, provided it is linked to at least one of the topics studied on the MA.

Career opportunities:

Philosophy is greatly valued by employers. Amongst the transferrable skills you will acquire (or improve) will be the ability to understand and assimilate complex material; the ability to formulate arguments; the ability to express yourself in a clear and convincing manner; the ability to communicate your ideas clearly in written and other forms.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Block 1: The emotions
Block 2: Nietzsche
Block 3: Foucault and Arendt
Block 4: Dirty Hands

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-17 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

To register for this module, you are required to have successfully completed the MA Philosophy part 1 (A853).

Preparatory work

We recommend that reading the following five books would be useful preparation for this module :

Carolyn Price, Emotion (Polity, 2015)
Sue Mendus, Politics and Morality (Polity, 2009).

These are also set books for this module (see 'Study materials'):

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Paul Rabinow (ed.) The Foucault Reader:An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin, 1991).
Hannah Arendt, On Violence (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1970).

Tuition Fees

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12290 GBP / year

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7900 GBP / year

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