Philosophy, Literature and Classics

Philosophy, literature, and classics is a degree that brings together three disciplines with deep historical connections and shared intellectual concerns. Philosophy asks the most fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, ethics, and human existence, providing the conceptual tools that have shaped western thought since ancient Greece. Classics gives you direct access to the ancient Greek and Roman worlds that generated many of those questions and much of the western literary tradition, while also developing linguistic competence in Greek and Latin.

Literature examines how language has been used across cultures and periods to articulate human experience, engaging with both the ancient texts that classics provides and the broader range of literary traditions that English encompasses.

At the University of Warwick, this full-time, three-year programme gives you access to a huge range of modules that link historical and contemporary scholarship across all three disciplines. You will explore the relationships between ancient and modern thought, between philosophical argument and literary expression, and between the classical tradition and its reception in later periods. The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, providing substantial professional and international experience alongside your academic study.

The interdisciplinary breadth of the degree develops a genuinely distinctive combination of analytical, linguistic, and interpretive skills. The typical entry tariff is 168 UCAS points.

Graduates from philosophy, literature, and classics programmes are well placed across a range of careers. Law, journalism, the civil service, academia, publishing, education, arts administration, and international organisations all value the analytical depth, linguistic competence, and cultural breadth that the combination develops. The classical languages and the philosophical training are particularly distinctive assets.

Postgraduate study in philosophy, classics, ancient history, literature, or law provides natural routes for those who wish to specialise or pursue research.