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1. Admissions/ Management Information
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Title of the new programme – including any lower awards
Please provide the titles used for all awards relating to this programme. Note: all programmes are required to have at least a Postgraduate Certificate exit award.

See guidance on programme titles in:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DQPWuKaK3J0LgM7SXyUCMemJ3PfysXPc/view
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Masters MA Philosophy
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Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma PhilosophyPlease indicate if the Postgraduate Diploma is available as an entry point, ie. is a programme on which a student can register or as an exit award, ie. that are only available to students exiting the masters programme early, or both.Exit
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Postgraduate Certificate Postgraduate Certificate PhilosophyPlease indicate if the Postgraduate Certificate is available as an entry points, ie. is a programme on which a student can register, or as an exit award, ie. that are only available to students exiting the masters programme early, or both.Exit
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Postgraduate Certificate - alternative award title
NB the Taught Postgraduate Framework (section F) allows for more than one PGCert title. Consult your AQ Team contact for advice and see sec 5.d 		n/aPlease indicate if the Postgraduate Certificate is available as an entry points, ie. is a programme on which a student can register, or as an exit award, ie. that are only available to students exiting the masters programme early, or both.Exit
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Level of qualificationLevel 7
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This document applies to students who commenced the programme(s) in:2022/23
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Awarding institutionTeaching institution
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University of York University of York
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Department(s):
Where more than one department is involved, indicate the lead department		Board of Studies
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Lead Department PhilosophyPhilosophy
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Other contributing Departments: n/a
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Length and status of the programme(s) and mode(s) of study
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ProgrammeLength (years/ months) Status (full-time/ part-time)
Please select		Start dates/months
(if applicable – for programmes that have multiple intakes or start dates that differ from the usual academic year)		Mode
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Face-to-face, campus-basedDistance learningOther
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MA in Philosophy1 YearFull-timen/aPlease select Y/NYesPlease select Y/NNon/a
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MA in Philosophy2 YearPart-timen/aPlease select Y/NYesPlease select Y/NNon/a
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Language(s) of study
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English
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Language(s) of assessment
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English
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2. Programme accreditation by Professional, Statutory or Regulatory Bodies (PSRB)
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2.a. Is the programme recognised or accredited by a PSRB
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Please Select Y/N: Noif No move to section 3
if Yes complete the following questions
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2.b. Name of PSRB
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n/a
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2.c. Please provide details of any approval / accreditation event needed, including: timescales, the nature of the event, central support / information required:

Please also specify whether any accreditation agreement will require renewal during the expected peroid of study of the cohort of students covered by this document and, if such an event will be required, what the implications are for students who are already enrolled should accreditation not be renewed
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n/a
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2.d Does/ will approval or recognition require exceptions to University rules/practices?
Please select Y/N		if Yes, provide details
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n/a
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2.e. Any additional information (e.g. student attainment required to achieve accreditation) that are required by the PSRB should be recorded here
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n/a
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3. Additional Professional or Vocational Standards
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Are there any additional requirements of accrediting bodies or PSRB or pre-requisite professional experience needed to study this programme?
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Please Select Y/N: Noif Yes, provide details
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4. Programme Design
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4.a. Statement of purpose for applicants to the masters programme
Please express succinctly the overall aims of the programme as an applicant facing statement for a prospectus or website. This should clarify to a prospective student why they should choose this programme, what it will provide to them and what benefits they will gain from completing it.
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Our MA is designed to give you a command of the central areas of philosophical inquiry, the space and support to pursue a research project of your own choosing, and transferable skills which will be of benefit to whatever career you pursue. Above all, however, the primary goal of our MA is to help you move from studying philosophical problems to investigating them as a researcher in your own right. During your study, you will engage in research-led enquiry, focussing on contemporary problems and scholarship. You will receive encouragement, support and guidance in selecting and independently studying ideas of personal interest to you, as well as studying what we take to be core areas of modern philosophical thought. You will develop transferable skills in presenting your own ideas, conference organization, and collaborative work. We have a lively postgraduate community, and you will be invited to participate in the broad and diverse research culture of our department. You will leave the MA programme with a firm, broad grounding in contemporary philosophy. You will have had support in developing your skills as a researcher, and as a thinker more generally. You will have explored the philosophical ideas of greatest interest to you in detail, with high-level supervision from professional philosophers. By the close of the MA you will have been prepared, in both skills and research, to take your study further, or to apply your knowledge and capabilities to a professional and persuasive standard in the world of work.
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4.a.i Statement of purpose for applicants registering for the postgraduate diploma programme (entry awards only)
Please express succinctly the overall aims of the programme as an applicant facing statement for a prospectus or website. This should clarify to a prospective student why they should choose this programme, what it will provide to them and what benefits they will gain from completing it. This is only necessary if the PG. Diploma is available as an entry award.
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4.a.ii Statement of purpose for applicants registering for the postgraduate certificate programme (entry awards only)
Please express succinctly the overall aims of the programme as an applicant facing statement for a prospectus or website. This should clarify to a prospective student why they should choose this programme, what it will provide to them and what benefits they will gain from completing it. This is only necessary if the PG. Cert. is available as an entry award.
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4.b.i. Programme Learning Outcomes - Masters
Please provide six to eight statements of what a graduate of the Masters programme can be expected to do.
If the document only covers a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma please specify four to six PLO statements for the PG Certificate and four-eight for the PG Diploma in the sections 5.b.ii and 5.b.iii as appropriate.
Taken together, these outcomes should capture the distinctive features of the programme. They should also be outcomes for which progressive achievement through the course of the programme can be articulated, and which will therefore be reflected in the design of the whole programme.
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PLOOn successful completion of the programme, graduates will be able to:
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1Critically review current scholarship and research on key problems, issues and debates across a wide range of areas of philosophy.
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2Apply critical perspectives to current research in their field in a technically proficient yet accessible and clear manner informed by current practice, scholarship and research.
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3Work effectively and collaboratively in the planning, organization, and delivery of significant research events and reports (in a manner continuous with best practice at a professional level).
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4Take full ownership of their own development as researchers and professionals, continually reflecting on their own practice, progress and received feedback, and seeking assistance where appropriate.
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5Give presentations of their ideas and arguments at a professional level (aligned with best practice) to varied audiences.
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6Create detailed and persuasive project proposals at a high level (continuous with best practice in professional research proposals), and initiate, develop and complete substantial independent projects.
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4.b.ii. Programme Learning Outcomes - Postgraduate Diploma (Entry Awards Only).
Please provide four to eight statements of what a graduate of the Postgraduate Diploma programme can be expected to do.
Taken together, these outcomes should capture the distinctive features of the programme. They should also be outcomes for which progressive achievement through the course of the programme can be articulated, and which will therefore be reflected in the design of the whole programme. Completion of this section is only necessary if the PG. Certificate is available as an entry award.
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PLOOn successful completion of the programme, graduates will be able to:
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4.b.iii. Programme Learning Outcomes - Postgraduate Certificate (Entry Awards only).
Please provide four to six statements of what a graduate of the Postgraduate Certificate programme can be expected to do.
Taken together, these outcomes should capture the distinctive features of the programme. They should also be outcomes for which progressive achievement through the course of the programme can be articulated, and which will therefore be reflected in the design of the whole programme. Completion of this section is only necessary if the PG. Certificate is available as an entry award.
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PLOOn successful completion of the programme, graduates will be able to:
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4.c. Exit Award Achievement
For taught postgraduate programmes which have exit awards, please summarise students’ progressive development towards the achievement of PLOs, in terms of the characteristics that you expect students to demonstrate at the end of the set of modules or part thereof, and provide appropriate detail of the module diet students will need to complete.

This summary may be particularly helpful to students and the programme team where there is a high proportion of option modules and in circumstances where students registered on a higher award will exit early with a lower one.

Note: it is not expected that a position statement is written for each masters PLO, but this can be done if preferred.
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i) If the Postgraduate Certificate is an exit award only please:
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Provide a global statement to explain what a student who exits with a PG Cert award will be able to do (this should capture the extent of the achievement of the programme learning outcomes).

NB: Where more than one PG Cert is available as an exit award a statement should be provided detailing what a student exiting with either award will be able to do		Detail the module diet that students will have to have completed to gain the PG Cert as an exit award.

NB: Where more than one PG Cert is available as an exit award the module diet required for each award should be given
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Students who exit with a PG Cert will have demonstrated an ability to engage critically and constructively with core areas of philosophy, and to apply their own perspective to current research in these fields. They will have made progress in toward fulfilling PLOs 1, 2, and 4.A postgraduate certificate can be attained as an exit award when a student has achieved at least 60 credits at or above a pass-mark level, from the completion of Reading Philosophy and any other combination of modules (totalling 40 further credits).
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ii) If the Postgraduate Diploma is an exit award only please:
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Provide a global statement to explain what a student who exits with a PG Dip award will be able to do (this should capture the extent of the achievement of the programme learning outcomes)Detail the module diet that students will have to have completed to gain the PG Dip as an exit award
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Students who exit with a PG Diploma will have demonstrated an ability to engage critically and constructively with core areas of philosophy, and to apply their own perspective to current research in these fields. They will have made progress in toward fulfilling PLOs 1–5.A postgraduate diploma can be attained as an exit award when a student has achieved at least 120 credits at or above a pass-mark level, from the completion of Reading Philosophy and any other combination of modules (totalling 100 further credits).
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4.d. Transition: Please detail how you would support students from diverse entry routes to transition into the programme? For example, disciplinary knowledge and conventions of the discipline, language skills, academic and writing skills, lab skills, academic integrity
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Philosophy offers a Graduate Diploma (GDip) in Philosophy for students without a first degree in Philosophy that can be used as a 'conversion course' and a route onto the MA in Philosophy. Candidates will be admitted onto the MA in Philosophy following successful completion of the GDip.
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4.e. Employability: Please give a broad idea of the sorts of fields that students of the programme may progress to after graduation and how this degree may help them to do that. This should be a short, applicant facing statement. Your Faculty Employability Manager can help reflection on this issue.
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http://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/support-and-admin/careers/staff/
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The MA is designed to visibly and effectively develop a number of transferable skills which are desirable to employers. The ‘Research Skills & Dissemination Practice’ module contributes to this development in several ways. The module trains students to effectively construct project proposals in a way designed to be continuous with best practice in applying to (academic and non-academic) funding bodies. Further, the module tasks students with collaboratively organizing a research conference and presenting their work to a varied audience. In addition, the module incorporates a number of bespoke skills sessions concerning writing quality, using research repositories, referencing, etc. A recent final score for positive destinations in Philosophy (2015/16) showed a 75% rate of positive destination (moving forward to either a professional job or further graduate-level study), against a sector average of 71% for Philosophy postgraduates across all institutions, and 72.4% across Philosophy postgraduates across the Russell Group.
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4f. Inclusivity
Please confirm below that the design, content and delivery of the programme will support students from all backgrounds to succeed. This refers to the University's duties under the Equality Act 2010. You may wish to refer to the optional Inclusive Learning self-assessment tools to support reflection on this issue.
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Please Confirm by Selecting YesYes
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4.g Involvement of Partner Organisations
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i) Involvement of partner organisations
Are any partner organisations involved in the delivery of the programme?
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Please Select Y/N: Noif Yes, outline the nature of their involvement (such as contributions to teaching, placement provision). Where appropriate, see also the:
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University guidance on collaborative provision
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n/a
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5. Reference points and programme regulations
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5.a. Relevant Quality Assurance Agency benchmark statement(s) and other relevant external reference points
Please state relevant reference points consulted (e.g. Framework for Higher Education Qualifications, National Occupational Standards, Subject Benchmark Statements or the requirements of PSRBs): See also Taught Postgraduate Modular Scheme: Framework for Programme Design:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DQPWuKaK3J0LgM7SXyUCMemJ3PfysXPc/view
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QAA Master's Degree Characteristics Statement (2020)
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http://www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements#
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https://www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/qualifications-and-credit-frameworks
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The University's Taught Postgraduate Modular Scheme was consulted along with the QAA benchmark statements.
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5.b. University award regulations
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The University’s award and assessment regulations apply to all programmes: any exceptions that relate to this programme are approved by University Teaching Committee and are recorded at the end of this document.
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6. Programme Structure
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6.a. Module Structure
Please complete the summary table below which shows the module structure through the programme.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
If the structure of your programme does not fit the usual academic year (for instance students start at the beginning of September or in January) please contact your Academic Quality Team contact in the Academic Support Office for guidance on how to represent the structure in an alternative format.

To clearly present the overall programme structure, include the name and details of each invidual CORE module in the rows below. For OPTION modules, ‘Option module’ or 'Option from list x' should be used in place of specifically including all named options. If the programme requires students to select option modules from specific lists by term of delivery or subject theme these lists should be provided in the next section (6.b).

From the drop-down select 'S' to indicate the start of the module and 'E' to indicate the end of the module, noting that this is when the final assessment falls rather than the end of teaching delivery.
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http://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/support-and-admin/registry-services/guide/
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Full time structure
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CreditsModuleAutumn TermSpring Term Summer Term Summer Vacation
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CodeTitle12345678910123456789101234567891012345678910111213
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20PHI00074MReading PhilosophySE
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20PHI00065MResearch Skills & Dissemination PracticeSE
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60PHI00017MDissertationSE
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20Option ASE
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20[Either] Option ASE
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20[Or] Option BSE