选修基础年，选修国外。教育应该是一生，而不仅仅是工作。高等教育不仅涉及扩展我们的知识和发展技能，而且涉及追求更多的搜索问题，即关于真正值得追求的东西，关于我们应该如何行事，关于成功的人的思想和推理的位置的问题。生活，以及我们知识的性质和局限性。哲学家对这些问题有着长期的独特关注，这使得哲学成为高等教育学科的佼佼者。这些问题挑战我们学习如何真正思考。解决这些问题需要一种不同于自然科学和社会科学的方法：不是观察和实验，而是概念的分析和自主理性的运用。对哲学的研究还有助于培养更广泛的可转移技能，例如构造分析能力
Interrogate what it means to be human and develop the personal and intellectual skills you need for any career that involves thinking, talking or writing about your ideas on this truly fascinating academic programme. Join us on a journey through traditional areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, moral theory, and the philosophy of mind and language, as well as modern European philosophy and applied ethics. Our academics are all active researchers, and their work in areas such as bioethics, professional ethics, philosophy of mind and mental health, and philosophy and popular culture feeds directly into the modules they teach.Education should be for life, not just for work. Higher education is not only about extending our knowledge and developing skills, but also about pursuing more searching questions – questions about what is really worth striving for, about how we should conduct ourselves, about the place of thought and reasoning in a successful human life, and about the nature and limits of our knowledge.You'll have an opportunity to build a work placement into your studies, via modules offered through our Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership. These modules offer placements with a wide range of community groups and voluntary organisations in areas such as music and the arts, environment and conservation, crime prevention, health and social welfare, sports, youth work, culture and heritage, ICT, PR and fundraising.<br><br>The UCLan BA(Hons) Philosophy programme is an academic rather than a vocational programme, designed to help our students develop the personal and intellectual qualities that will enable them to work effectively in a range of graduate careers. The majority of graduate employers are not seeking graduates of specific vocational courses, but graduates who have the broad range of skills and attributes that are characteristically developed through academic study at degree level in traditional disciplines. In this respect, Philosophy graduates compare favourably with graduates of cognate Humanities disciplines such as History and English Literature.<br><br>A philosophy degree is particularly suited to careers in advertising, the civil service, education, film and television, information technology, journalism, law, marketing, and management. However, the emphasis we place on transferrable skills means that philosophy graduates are able to apply these skills in differing contexts and have confidence and ability to work effectively in a varied range of occupations.