Philosophy and Politics with Placement Experience

About this course

Philosophy and politics have been companions since antiquity, and the combination remains one of the most intellectually stimulating available at undergraduate level. At the University of Reading, the BA Philosophy and Politics with Placement Experience runs over four years of full-time study, with the additional year built around gaining professional experience in a workplace setting. This structure gives you the opportunity to test the ideas you are developing in the programme against the realities of organisational and public life, and to bring a more grounded perspective back into your final year of academic study. Philosophy trains you to examine the assumptions that underlie arguments and beliefs, and to think with unusual rigour about questions of knowledge, ethics, language, and metaphysics. Political study asks related questions at the level of collective life: how power should

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 60% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →

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