2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BSc Mathematics and Philosophy
Programme code: | BS-MATH&PHIL | UCAS code: | GVC5 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Tasia Scrutton | Contact address: | t.scrutton@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
AAB including Grade A Mathematics at A-level, or equivalent alternative qualifications
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study up to three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- This programme also allows the opportunity to undertake a work placement year or study abroad year.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits.
Students must pass 100 credits in total, including all modules flagged as PFP (pass for progression modules) and a minimum of 40 credits in Maths and 40 credits in Philosophy.
Compulsory modules:
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:
MATH1050 | Calculus and Mathematical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1055 | Numbers and Vectors | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1060 | Introductory Linear Algebra | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH1400 | Modelling with Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH1710 | Probability and Statistics I | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1712 | Probability and Statistics II | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1250 | How to Think Clearly and Argue Well | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students who would like to take further Financial Mathematics modules in year 2 or 3 need to take LUBS1036.
LUBS1036 | Introduction to Finance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates must choose at least 20 credits from the following:
PHIL1080 | The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1090 | Knowledge, Self and Reality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1120 | Great Philosophical Thinkers | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may spend some or all of their discovery credits on the following optional modules:
HPSC1015 | Magic, Science and Religion | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC1030 | History of Psychology | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1046 | Introduction to the History of Science | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1050 | Darwin, Germs and the Bomb | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1070 | Living with Technology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC1080 | History of Modern Medicine | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH1225 | Introduction to Geometry | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL1005 | The Mind | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL1007 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL1109 | How Science Works | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Students may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:
- Mathematics: a minimum of 110 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
- Philosophy: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
- Plus 30 credits in the named subjects, used to ensure that credits at the appropriate level for award are taken.
- Plus 20 credits of Discovery Modules or further modules in the named subjects.
In order to progress to year 3 of the Honours programme, students must pass at least 40 credits of LeveL 2 Maths. To be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules designated to be passed for award/progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at Level 2 and all core modules to proceed to the next level of the programme.
Compulsory modules:
Students are required to study the following modules:
MATH2365 | Vector Calculus | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Student must take exactly one of the following two modules: (These are mutually exclusive)
MATH2022 | Groups and Vector Spaces | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2080 | Further Linear Algebra | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Student must take and pass exactly one of the following two modules: (These are mutually exclusive)
MATH2041 | Logic Pre-requisite for: PHIL3123 | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2122 | Formal Logic Pre-requisite for: PHIL3121, PHIL3123 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students must take additional modules from the following list of Mathematics options for an overall total of at least 50 credits of Maths modules (including those chosen from the option blocks above):
MATH2017 | Real Analysis | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2026 | Rings, Fields and Polynomials | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2042 | Logic with Computation Pre-requisite for: PHIL3123 | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2051 | Geometry of Curves and Surfaces | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2230 | Discrete Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2231 | Discrete Mathematics with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2340 | The Mathematics of Music | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2375 | Linear Differential Equations and Transforms | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2391 | Nonlinear Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2535 | Financial Mathematics: Risk | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2545 | Financial Mathematics: Markets | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2600 | Numerical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2601 | Numerical Analysis with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2620 | Fluid Dynamics 1 | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2640 | Introduction to Optimisation | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2650 | Calculus of Variations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2715 | Statistical Methods | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2735 | Statistical Modelling | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2740 | Environmental Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2750 | Introduction to Markov Processes | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2775 | Survival Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2920 | Computational Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
MATH2800 (Maths into Schools) may be taken; in order to enrol, you must contact the School of Mathematics by a specific deadline (check the Module Catalogue for more information). MATH2230 and MATH2231 are mutually exclusive. MATH2600 and MATH2601 are also mutually exclusive.
Candidates are required to study at least 40 credits in Philosophy at Level 2, which must include at least one of the following modules:
PHIL2121 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Pre-requisite for: PHIL3121, PHIL3123 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2405 | Introduction to Epistemology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2542 | Introduction to Metaphysics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may select further credits from the following modules:
CSER2207 | Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PHIL2212 | History of Modern Philosophy: Leibniz and Hume | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2221 | Ancient Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2232 | History of Modern Philosophy: Locke and Berkeley | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
PHIL2295 | Ethics of Life and Death | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2321 | Political Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2322 | Moral Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2532 | Philosophy of Religion | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2600 | Philosophical Issues in Biology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2611 | How Biology Works | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2999 | Philosophy Students into Schools | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
PRHS2333 | Thinking About Race | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PRHS2450 | A Key Thinker in Philosophy of Religion: In Dialogue | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
PRHS2451 | Augustine of Hippo: A Key Thinker in Philosophy and Theology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
PHIL2600 and PHIL2611 are mutually exclusive.
Discovery modules:
Students may take up to 20 credits of Discovery modules.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:
- Mathematics: a minimum of 110 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
- Philosophy: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
- Plus 30 credits in the named subjects and used to ensure that credits at the appropriate level for award are taken.
- Plus 20 credits of Discovery Modules or further modules in the named subjects.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at Level 3 and all core modules to proceed to gain the degree.
Optional modules:
Students are normally required to take 60 credits in Mathematics. If desired, one 10 or 15 credit module may be chosen from those offered in year 2 (but not including the level 1 modules). At most, 15 credits of MATH modules may be at Level 2.
Candidates are required to study at least 20cr and no more than 60cr from the following modules:
MATH3001 | Project in Mathematics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3000 | Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3001 | Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates are required to select at least sufficient credits from the following modules to fulfil the programme requirements. Please check the Module Catalogue for pre-requisites and mutually exclusive modules. At most 15 credits of MATH modules may be at Level 2. EDUC3060, COMP3940 and COMP3910 count towards the credit requirements for Mathematics modules.
COMP3910 | Combinatorial Optimisation | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMP3940 | Graph Algorithms and Complexity Theory | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EDUC3060 | Mathematics Education | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2017 | Real Analysis | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2026 | Rings, Fields and Polynomials | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2051 | Geometry of Curves and Surfaces | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2230 | Discrete Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2231 | Discrete Mathematics with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2340 | The Mathematics of Music | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2375 | Linear Differential Equations and Transforms | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2391 | Nonlinear Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2515 | Financial Mathematics 2 | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2525 | Financial Mathematics 3 | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2600 | Numerical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2601 | Numerical Analysis with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2620 | Fluid Dynamics 1 | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2640 | Introduction to Optimisation | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2650 | Calculus of Variations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2715 | Statistical Methods | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2735 | Statistical Modelling | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2740 | Environmental Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH2750 | Introduction to Markov Processes | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2775 | Survival Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2920 | Computational Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3015 | History of Mathematics | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3021 | Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3033 | Graph Theory | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3044 | Number Theory | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3071 | Groups and Symmetry | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3104 | Proof and Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3113 | Differential Geometry | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3120 | Models and Sets | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3143 | Combinatorics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3153 | Coding Theory | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3193 | Algebras and Representations | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3210 | Metric Spaces | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3215 | Hilbert Spaces and Fourier Analysis | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3225 | Topology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3232 | Transformation Geometry | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3355 | Hamiltonian Systems | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3365 | Mathematical Methods | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3374 | Linear and Non-Linear Waves | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3375 | Hydrodynamic Stability | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3385 | Quantum Mechanics | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3397 | Nonlinear Dynamics | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3414 | Analytic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3424 | Introduction to Entropy in the Physical World | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3458 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3474 | Numerical Methods | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3475 | Modern Numerical Methods | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3510 | Actuarial Mathematics 1 | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3520 | Actuarial Mathematics 2 | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3532 | Relativity and Cosmology | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3565 | Mathematical Biology | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3567 | Evolutionary Modelling | 15 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3620 | Fluid Dynamics 2 | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3714 | Linear Regression and Robustness | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3723 | Statistical Theory | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3734 | Stochastic Calculus for Finance | 15 credits | 1 Jan to 31 May | |
MATH3772 | Multivariate Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3802 | Time Series | 10 credits | 1 Sep to 31 Dec (adv yr), 1 Jan to 31 May | |
MATH3820 | Bayesian Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MATH3823 | Generalised Linear Models | 10 credits | 1 Jan to 31 May | |
PHYS3011 | Cosmology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHYS3511 | Advanced Mechanics | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), 1 Sep to 31 Jan (adv yr) |
MATH2230 and MATH2231 are mutually exclusive.
PHIL3112 | Kant | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3123 | Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3320 | Philosophy of Biology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3321 | Metaethics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3322 | Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3421 | Philosophy of Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3700 | Feminist Philosophy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3723 | War, Terror and Justice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3851 | Introduction to Philosophy of Modern Physics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3852 | Philosophy of Modern Physics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3855 | Philosophical Issues in Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3865 | Philosophy of the Social Sciences | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PRHS3100 | Existentialism and Phenomenology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PRHS3170 | Religion, Belief and Ethics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PRHS3200 | Moral, Rational Selves: Perspectives on Human Nature | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
PRHS3300 | Religion and Mental Health | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
THEO3390 | Philosophy and the Spiritual Life | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 |
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