奧塔哥大學

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree programme, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the programme are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an entry qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree.

Philosophy

The questions which philosophers discuss are so basic and so general that at some time or other most people have come across them. Philosophy is the attempt to assess the foundations of our beliefs and the principles we live by.

The basic questions of philosophy connect with almost every subject taught at university, so 100-level Philosophy papers are a useful part of any degree. Higher level Philosophy papers examine the foundations of many disciplines including the sciences, mind and language, religion, ethics, politics and logic.

Programme Requirements

100-level

Two 100-level PHIL papers

200-level

Two 200-level PHIL papers. One further PHIL paper at 200-level or above. One of GEND 201 Introduction to Feminist Theory, POLS 202 Theories of Justice, or PSYC 204 Justice, Race and Class, may be substituted for one 200-level PHIL paper

300-level

Four 300-level PHIL papers (or three 300-level PHIL papers and one 400-level PHIL paper)

One of BITC 301 Bioethics, CLAS 340 Love, Death and the Good Life: Socrates and Plato, or POLS 301 Power and Liberty, may be substituted for one 300-level PHIL paper

Plus

198 further points; must include 54 points at 200-level or above.

Up to 90 points may be taken from outside Arts