BA Honours Degree in Philosophy

Overview

Our four-year BA Hons degree at Arrupe Jesuit University situates philosophy firmly among the other humanities. Philosophy, in other words, is only one of the ways in which human beings have reflected on questions such as, ‘What is it to be human?’ ‘What kind of things are we?’ ‘What kind of things should we be?’ ‘How ought we to live?’ – questions also addressed, in their own ways, by other important disciplines.

This is a philosophy honours degree, but as well as philosophy, you will be exposed to other ways of thinking about our humanity: through history, for example, both African and world history; through novels, poems, and plays of both African and other literatures; through the social and human sciences such as sociology, anthropology and psychology; through religions both African and others, through ICT, statistics, and even some theology. And depending on the year, there care also elective courses you can choose on topics like Women in African Literature, Disaster Management, Psychological Disorders & Treatments, Achebe: the Artist as Thinker, Ecology and Environmentalism, Artificial Intelligence, Christianity in Africa, and many more.

The programme is structured to help students think philosophically, beginning in our own African context and understanding it as much as possible in all its complexity, but then broadening out towards a global perspective. This is a degree with a wide horizon but a sharp focus in philosophy.

Entry Requirements

1. Normal admission for those who completed their high school in Zimbabwe: five ordinary level passes, including English Language and Mathematics; and two Advanced level passes or four Ordinary level passes, at least three at the Advanced level.

2. Mature entry is for males 30 years and females 25 years and older and requires at least five passes at the Ordinary level and experience in virtue of which the University considers them ready for a degree programme.