Bachelor of Arts - Politics and Philosophy (LV25)

Combining Philosophy with Politics enhances students ability to explore and test the basic beliefs and values that underpin their ideas about politics, and gives them sophisticated intellectual tools with which to do it.

Students first year they will concentrate on core modules. In their second and final years they can choose from a wide range of optional modules.

Politics as an area of study develops the knowledge and understanding of governments, governance and societies. Politics is central to everyday lives. It explores people and power and involves drama and events of great significance both today and historically. Think of the electoral struggle between Left and Right, the power play of the Cold War, and the great enterprise of European integration.

Studying for a politics degree means investigating how politics works and delves into how parliaments and governments function while also allowing students to evaluate political ideas such as power, freedom, democracy, conflict, legitimacy and accountability.

Philosophy at Cardiff covers the full range of philosophical concerns, with a particular emphasis on ethics and aesthetics. Modules cover both the analytic and Continental styles of Western philosophy, which is unusual in the UK.