Are you a current student? For the programme of this academic year, check the course guide.
Study Programme Year 1 - Ethics and Political Philosophy
In the first year of the research master, you:
- follow a two-semester seminar on research methodologies (20 ec);
- follow three seminars (3 × 10 ec). These can be seminars of your own choice. A seminar in your area of specialisation (10 ec) can be one of these seminars or has to be taken in year 2;
- follow an elective master course of your own choice (10 ec).
About this study curriculum
Specialisation seminar
All students have to take at least one seminar of their own specialisation. Most specialisations offer two seminars every year, the content of which changes every year.
The seminar subjects of 2022-2023 are: Environmental ethics (semester 1) and [undecided] (semester 2).
Elective research seminars
Students are free to choose any related master’s course that is specifically constructed as a research course. This can be a course offered at Radboud University or any other university in the Netherlands or abroad. As an elective research seminar, students often choose the seminars from the other specialisations within our research master’s in Philosophy. For an overview of these electives, please visit the [course guide].
Elective courses
Students are free to choose any related master’s course at Radboud University or any other university in the Netherlands or abroad. Research master’s students are encouraged to join the activities organised by the OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy), such as study groups, workshops, or the Autumn School for research master’s students.
- P1
- P2
- P3
- P4
Elective courses are courses that you choose to take as part of a predetermined list of courses within your degree programme.
Free electives are courses taken in addition to required and elective courses but that do not need to relate to your degree programme.