Our courses are divided into three levels and four groups. The three levels correspond to the three years of study for an undergraduate degree. But it is open to students in any Faculty to take, for instance, a first level philosophy course in any year of study (provided that the regulations of their own degree programme permit it). The four groups are rough indications of courses related to each other in subject-matter, though not necessarily in approach. The four first-level courses correspond to the four groupings of higher-level courses.
Students wishing to take the second/third level courses should normally have taken at least one first-level course, except where otherwise indicated. Apart from PHIL3610 SEMINAR ON TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, PHIL3810 SENIOR SEMINAR and PHIL3910 SENIOR THESIS, they are all second or third level courses. Some of these courses are also available to students of other faculties as ``broadening courses''.
Most of these courses consist of 18 lectures in one semester, together with tutorials. Many but not all of them involve three individual tutorials.
Of all the second and third level courses listed, twelve to sixteen will normally be given each year. This means that not every course will be available in any two-year period. Therefore, student preferences will play a part in determining which courses are given. Some courses, however, are likely to be given every year (because of our commitments to curricula outside the B.A., and for other reasons), and some we prefer to give at least once every two years to make sure that every student has an opportunity to take them.