- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 2 Years
Course details
The Diploma and the Higher Diploma in Philosophy are part-time postgraduate programmes in Philosophy and provide students who already possess a third level qualification with a qualification in Philosophy. The courses are open to any student who satisfies the entry requirements: a third-level qualification in any subject or combination. For the Diploma the programme of study will extend over one year and its modules are drawn from the first and second year of the BA Philosophy programme. For the HDip the programme of study will extend over a two-year period and students will be required to achieve a pass on the first year’s courses before being admitted to the second year. The modules for the second year of the Higher Diploma in Philosophy are drawn from the third year of the BA Philosophy programme and students will be required to write a 5000 word dissertation. The topic of the dissertation will be chosen by the student from any area of philosophy and must be approved by the by the BA dissertation co-ordinator.
Entry Requirements
A third level qualification in any subject or combination. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE (EPISTEMOLOGY)
- INTRODUCTION TO GREEK PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY OF GOD: REASON, SCIENCE AND RELIGION
- LOGICAL REASONING AND CRITICAL THINKING
- INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
- FROM POLIS TO POLITICS: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FROM PLATO TO HOBBES
- PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, MORALITY, PUNISHMENT AND RIGHTS
- PHENOMENOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Year 2
- POST-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
- DISSERTATION
- PLURALISM: ITS VALUES, CRITICS, AND CHALLENGES
- RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY. METHODS AND PRACTICES
- TOPICS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
- MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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