On this module, students will undertake a piece of original research in their chosen field. This can be in any area of Philosophy in accordance with departmental expertise. This ranges widely across historical and contemporary topics -from logic to aesthetics and literature, science and metaphysics to spirituality, ethics and politics to existentialism. With guidance from an academic supervisor (or supervisory team) students will produce a dissertation of between 30,000 and 35,000 words (or equivalent) based on their independent research.