Our joint honours course allows students to pursue their own areas of interest within Philosophy and Politics whilst also providing them with a solid foundation in the discipline and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for their future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable students to gradually develop their knowledge and skills and enable them to explore their own areas of interest and become autonomous, effective and independent learners.In Philosophy, our modules explore how the work of historical philosophers impacts upon debates that are central to contemporary philosophy. Politics modules will help you to develop your understanding and knowledge of power in social relations and how this manifests itself in our institutions, ideas and in the distribution of limited resources in society.Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.