Undergraduate prospectus 2018–19

Liberal arts undergraduate programmes in London Alexandra Hewitt History BA with Psychology

Sofia Sabben Law LLB with English

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5 Curriculum 7 Teaching 45 History 60 PPH with a Politics major 13 Location 47 Law 61 PPH with a 19 Community 51 Philosophy History major 23 Accommodation 53 Politics & 63 Creative Writing International Relations 25 Social life 65 The NCH Diploma 55 PPE with a 27 Student Central Philosophy major 68 Graduates 33 Timetable 56 PPE with a 73 Qualifications 35 List of degree Politics major 75 Applying programmes 57 PPE with an 78 Fees 37 Art History Economics major 39 Economics 59 PPH with a Philosophy major 41 English 43 Geography

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1 Choose your major 2 Choose your minor subject. For PPE 3 Study the unique subject, or study the and PPH, you choose two minors. NCH Diploma. single honours Law LLB. For the single honours Law LLB, you do not choose a minor.

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Liberal arts undergraduate programmes

New College of the Humanities Economics, English, Geography, (NCH) is a world-class, History, Law, Philosophy, and university-level college in the Politics & International Relations. heart of London. The College We also offer Philosophy, combines a unique liberal Politics & Economics (PPE) and arts curriculum with highly Philosophy, Politics & History personalised teaching in an (PPH) combinations, Creative international community, Writing as a minor option, and ensuring that every student a single honours Law LLB.* who is prepared to work hard will achieve their full potential All undergraduates at NCH and leave fully equipped to combine their degree studies face the challenges of our with the College’s enriching increasingly complex world. diploma, which is designed to give you the insights that will At NCH, you choose a combined enable you to lead a rewarding honours degree comprising and fulfilling life, and offers a ‘major’ subject and a exceptional professional complementary ‘minor’ subject, development opportunities. from any two of Art History,

* We hope to launch Law major and minor options and a new single honours Law LLB in September 2017, as well as Geography major and minor options in September 2018, subject to completion of the validation process. 5 Matthew Walker Philosophy BA with Law (Lond/NCH, 2016)

Dr Christoph Schuringa BA (Cantab), PhD (Lond) Lecturer in Philosophy

of NCH students receive feedback on their assignments in person, versus 31% of their peers at 97% Russell Group universities.*

* Youthsight, the award-winning youth research agency, recently analysed the results of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) Student Academic Experience Survey 2016 to compare the NCH academic experience to that of undergraduates studying the humanities and social sciences at Russell 6 Group universities. NCH outperformed the Russell Group in an overwhelming majority of areas. TEACHING

How we teach

How many students will At NCH, treating you as an We encourage all of our be in my degree classes? individual is central to our undergraduates to attend One-to-one tutorials: 1 ethos; we are committed to lectures in any subject, even if helping you achieve your the lecture is not in your chosen Small group tutorials: 2 – 4 academic, personal and degree specialism, so that you Lectures: 10 – 60 professional potential. can expand your knowledge without limitation and take full Here, you will benefit from advantage of NCH’s vibrant one of the best staff-to-student interdisciplinary culture. ratios in UK higher education. Teaching is delivered by highly experienced and enthusiastic academics through one-to-one tutorials, small group seminars and interactive lectures, and our smaller class sizes allow everyone the chance to participate and thrive.

7 Karishma Patel English with Philosophy BA

Dr Charlotte Grant BA (Cantab), MA (Lond), PhD (Cantab) Senior Lecturer in English

Emily Hill English BA with Philosophy ‘The small lecture sizes, large number of contact hours with staff, and one-to-ones with the academics are really beneficial to everyone who goes here. It sets NCH apart from other universities. Here, you really are a face, a name and a personality – you aren’t just a number.’

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One-to-one tutorials

Through one-to-one tutorials, our the deepest insights and academics will work with you sharpening your intellectual to clarify, challenge, defend and skills. It allows you to explore develop the arguments and ideas topics and lines of enquiry that you express in your essays. are beyond the syllabus, and adds even greater depth and At the heart of NCH’s academic richness to your studies. philosophy, the one-to-one tutorial method draws out your potential by providing

9 Our world-class Professoriate

Our Visiting Professors, who are leading academics students access to some of the world’s greatest thinkers in their respective fields, contribute to the College’s that is unparalleled at undergraduate level. academic life. Between them, they deliver approximately Our Visiting Professors work closely with the College’s 100 lectures in each academic year at NCH, giving our academic faculty members, who lead weekly one-to-one tutorials and other small group teaching.

Professor Professor Professor Simon Blackburn Sir Partha Dasgupta Richard Dawkins BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) BSc (Delhi), BA, MA, PhD BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Visiting Professor (Cantab), FBA, FAAAS FRS, FRSL of Philosophy Visiting Professor Visiting Professor of Economics of Science Literacy

Professor Professor Professor Sir Daniel C Dennett Niall Ferguson Christopher Frayling BA (Harvard), BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon) BA, PhD (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon) Visiting Professor DArts (Bath) Visiting Professor of Economic History Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Art History

Professor Professor Professor Rebecca Goldstein Bettany Hughes Howard Jacobson BA (Columbia), BA, MA (Oxon), BA (Cantab) PhD (Princeton) PhD (York) Visiting Professor of Visiting Professor of Visiting Professor Creative Writing Philosophy & Literature of History

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Professor Professor Professor Nicholas Humphrey Lawrence Krauss Barbara McDonald BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) BSc (Carleton), BA, LLB (Syd), Visiting Professor DPhil (MIT) LLM (Lond) of Philosophy Visiting Professor of Visiting Professor Science Literacy of Law

Professor Professor Professor Sir Simon May Stephen Neale Trevor Nunn BA (Lond), MA BA (UCL), MA (Cantab) (Oxon), PhD (Lond) PhD (Stanford) Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Professor of Drama of Philosophy of Philosophy

Professor Professor Professor Sir Christopher Peacocke Steven Pinker Christopher Ricks BA, BPhil, DPhil (Oxon), BA (McGill), BA, MA, BLitt FBA, FAAAS DPhil (Harvard) (Oxon), FBA Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Psychology of English

Professor Geoffrey Professor Professor Robertson QC Peter Singer Adrian Zuckerman BA, LLB (Syd), BA, MA, (Melbourne), LLM (Jerusalem), BCL (Oxon) BPhil (Oxon) MA (Oxon) Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Professor of Law of Philosophy of Law

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A location that is second to none

London is packed full of world- NCH has the great fortune of class museums, theatres and being based in one of the best restaurants, not to mention locations for a higher education outstanding music and comedy institution in the UK. Situated in venues. Whether you want to the centre of Bloomsbury, the visit a world-famous gallery, see main building is mere steps from your favourite band perform or Senate House Library and the photograph iconic landmarks, British Museum, and just a few there is always something to do minutes’ walk to Oxford Street, and somewhere to be. Covent Garden and Theatreland.

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Urbanest University College King’s Cross London Stadium London (UCL) /St Pancras Victoria Park Royal Institute of Philosophy London Zoo

Tottenham Court Road Gower St Student Central Regent’s Park Russell SOAS Square The British Library Royal Academy Russell of Dramatic Arts Square Southampton Row Senate House Library

Goodge The British Street Museum The British Museum New College of Southeby’s Bedford London the Humanities Square Review Bookshop Institute of Art Helen Graham Arcitectural Association House School of Architecture Helen Graham House Dominion St Paul’s Cathedral Theatre Royal Opera House

London School of Tottenham Economics & Political Oxford Street Court Road Sciences (LSE) River Thames Trafalgar Square Hyde Park Tower of London Southbank Centre Tower Bridge

London Eye The O2 Royal Albert Hall Urbanest Buckingham Palace Westminster Big Ben Victoria & Olympia London Albert Museum

Tate Britain

Cutty Sark

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Urbanest King’s Cross London Stadium /St Pancras Victoria Park London Zoo

Regent’s Park The British Library

The British Museum New College of the Humanities Helen Graham House

Royal Opera House St Paul’s Cathedral

River Thames Trafalgar Square Hyde Park Tower of London Southbank Centre Tower Bridge

London Eye The O2 Royal Albert Hall Urbanest Buckingham Palace Westminster Big Ben Victoria & Olympia London Albert Museum

Tate Britain London

Cultural institutions Universities Halls of residence Cutty Sark

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Where we teach

The NCH main building, known The two-storey Mews to the rear as The Registry, is a stunning of The Registry is the social hub Grade I-listed, five-storey for our students. The first floor townhouse built between of the Mews houses the Junior 1776 and 1781. It sits in the Common Room (JCR) where centre of one of the most you can hang out, watch TV, eat beautiful examples of a Georgian lunch or finish an assignment. terrace and is home to most It is also the venue for student of the College’s teaching and bar nights, film nights and administrative facilities. parties.

The majority of your lectures, The ground floor is home to The seminars, and one-to-one and Study, a quiet space specifically small group tutorials will take kitted out for students to work in place in The Registry, where as an alternative to the library. most subjects have their own dedicated room in which you will find key texts related to that discipline and its courses.

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The best of both worlds

For some students, the thought Aside from your fellow NCH of studying in such a vast city students, it is possible to as London may be daunting, but socialise with students from all at NCH you will enjoy the best over London: you may choose to of both worlds: a supportive, live in halls alongside students friendly community in a from many other London collegiate environment, from universities and colleges; you’ll which you can launch yourself be part of a community of confidently into London life. 120,000 students using Student Central, London’s student social Few institutions offer this hub; you will study at Senate combination of being an House Library, the central library intimate, nurturing college for the University of London and where everyone knows your the School of Advanced Study; name, which is nonetheless and don’t forget that NCH is positioned at the epicentre of located right next to SOAS, UCL, student life in London. Birkbeck and RADA, to name If it is social life you’re after, but a few. while we may be small, that doesn’t mean there is any shortage of students to get to know.

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The sharpest minds from across the globe, converging on the heart of London

We may be a small, collegiate institution, but our students, graduates and staff form a truly international community.

STUDENTS & GRADUATES STAFF

Albania Greece Poland Australia New Zealand Afghanistan Hong Kong Qatar Austria Poland Australia Hungary Republic of Bulgaria South Africa Austria India Ireland Canada UK Belgium Isle of Man Romania Denmark USA Brazil Italy Russia Finland Bulgaria Kenya Singapore Germany Canada Lithuania Slovakia Greece Colombia Malaysia Slovenia India Cyprus Malta Spain Israel Czech Republic Mexico Sweden Italy Democratic Moldova Switzerland Mexico Republic of Monaco UK Congo Netherlands USA France New Zealand Germany Norway

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Te Manu Boynton ‘Transitioning from a city of 50,000 to a city of eight Politics & International Relations BSc with Economics million seemed daunting at first but I didn’t really get & Philosophy (Lond/NCH, 2016) the opportunity to feel homesick. Being part of a small college, I don’t feel like I’m a small fish in a big pond, ‘Nothing can prepare you for beginning tertiary education and NCH has faces from all over the world. Most of us are 12,000 miles away from home. Nonetheless, I packed my from outside London, so we all take turns navigating the pounamu, All Blacks jersey and all other bare essentials, labyrinth that is the Tube!’ and trekked from New Zealand to London.

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Where to live

We recommend that you live As an NCH student in halls, in halls during your first year you will be living amongst at NCH, so you can experience students from other London the support and fun of living universities including LSE, with fellow students, and have King’s College London, SOAS, a ready-made group with whom NYU London, Imperial College, to get into the swing of enjoying Birkbeck, and others. Shared London life. halls are social hubs, with most offering communal social spaces London offers a vast range of for students, as well as putting accommodation options for an on events. even wider range of budgets. We’ve found some options that reflect this range, with all boasting excellent security features and good facilities, within a short distance of the College.

For more on accommodation options, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/accommodation

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Jamie Rumbelow ‘Most of my days are spent avoiding all the distractions Philosophy BA with Economics that London offers: bars, concerts, theatres, bookshops. & Politics With dozens of free lectures, pop-up markets, sport ‘Even though NCH is small, you’re right events and impromptu gigs every week, my weekends in the middle of Bloomsbury so there’s are just as varied as my degree. I can honestly say I am no risk of getting cabin fever. never bored of London.’

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SOCIAL LIFE

A buzzing social scene

At NCH, we believe that NCH societies include: an active social life is a vital n Art Society part of your higher education. From the College’s burgeoning n Drama Society list of clubs and societies and n Film Society the wide array of social events n Jazz & World Music hosted by our students, to the Appreciation Society electrifying social scene across London itself, there really is n Model United Nations (MUN) something for everyone. n NChess

The social scene at NCH is ably n Politics Society supported by the New College n SOBER (Society of beer of the Humanities Student Union Enthusiasts and Rascals) (NCHSU), the representative body for students of NCH. n The Only Way is Ethics Events organised by NCHSU n Writing Society range from spoken word slams to film screenings and plays, n And many more! and are complemented by regular bar nights.

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Student Central

As well as enjoying the clubs, For a £40 annual membership societies, parties and balls run fee, you can join this thriving at NCH, as an NCH student you network of over 120,000 London can also participate in the huge students, all from different selection of clubs and events universities and backgrounds, that are run by Student Central, and with a dizzying array of a social hub for all London interests and passions. students managed by the University of London.

27 Clubbing, bars & food

Student Central boasts its own dedicated events space, The Venue, which hosts must-attend gigs, club nights, parties and other events throughout the year.

There are three student bars to choose from on site, as well a diner offering lunch and evening meals (at highly affordable prices) if you’re looking for sustenance ahead of a big night, or if you just don’t fancy cooking.

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Fitness

Energybase is a health and fitness club operated by Student Central, which caters for all abilities and levels.

Its excellent facilities include a 53-station fitness suite, a 33-metre swimming pool, up to 50 classes per week, remedial treatments, a sports hall and pitch, and a multi- purpose fitness studio.

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n Archery n Gospel Choir

n Art n Gymnastics

n Athletics/ Cross n Harry Potter Country/ n Ice Hockey Triathlon n Jazz n Breakdance n Jiu Jitsu n Canoe n Judo n Chamber Choir n Karate n Cricket n Koinonia n Dancesport n Krishna West n Debate n Kung Fu n Fencing n Lacrosse

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Societies

You’ll be spoilt for choice when Laurels and Purples, to recognise it comes to clubs and societies those students who have had at Student Central and, if your an outstanding year with their dream club doesn’t exist, you Student Central club or society. can start your own! What’s n Legal Forum n Rowing more, Student Central hosts an n LGBT n Rugby annual awards ceremony, The n Lifesaving n Sailing n Martial Arts n Shaolin n Mountaineering n Skydiving n Musical n Snowsports n Orchestra n St John Ambulance n Overseas Christian n Sub-Aqua Fellowship n Swimming n Polo n ULBUDA n Revelation n Volleyball Rock n Water Polo n Rifle

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9.00 A taste of a week at New 9.30 College of the Humanities Studying in Senate 10.00 House Library 10.30 Catch the latest exhibition 11.00 at the British Museum Jess Lichtenstern 11.30 Philosophy with English BA 12.00 Modern Philosophy: 12.30 This week, Dr Daniel Swift, Ted, Karishma and I Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume are discussing feminist and queer critical theories 13.00 on literature, focusing on A Room of One’s Own by Lecture Virginia Woolf and Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: 13.30 Dr Christoph Schuringa Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. (Philosophy major) 14.00 For my one-to-one tutorial this week, I’ve prepared Modern Philosophy Catching up with friends in 14.30 an essay on Berkeley’s A Treatise Concerning the One-to-one tutorial Bedford Square Gardens Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, investigating whether 15.00 Dr Christoph Schuringa Berkeley’s philosophy is immaterialist or idealist. 15.30 (Philosophy major)

16.00 Writing & Presenting a The day of reckoning: the briefing for our 16.30 Business Plan summer project. Seminar ( ) 17.00 Mr Matthew Batstone 17.30

18.00 I cannot WAIT for this. One of the best things about From Neurons to 18.30 being at NCH is the access we have to academics Consciousness who are at the cutting-edge of their fields – in 19.00 Professorial lecture everything from the humanities to science. Professor Steven Pinker 19.30

20.00 Life Drawing tonight! Art Society History Film Night 20.30 In the Junior Common 21.00 Room 32 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY TIMETABLE

Criticism Yoga class in Small group tutorial Covent Garden

Dr Daniel Swift (English minor)

Criticism Lecture Ethics Dr Dan O’Hara Lecture We’re looking at Mill’s Independent study (English minor) Dr David Mitchell Utilitarianism at the moment (Philosophy major) and thinking about whether utilitarianism can give a satisfactory account of Lunch at Student Central justice and injustice.

Rhetoric & Persuasion Studying Critical Reasoning Lecture for the NCH Diploma is really helping me develop Dr Ioannis Votsis coherent arguments in my (Critical Reasoning) degree essays.

I’m really into politics and Studying in Senate have been gearing up for House Library this for weeks – a talk and Rest of afternoon free for Q&A with the Leader of the sports and societies Green Party.

Simon’s lectures are always Shift at work Talk with guest speaker Moral Luck & the totally inspiring. I’m looking The Old Vic theatre, Natalie Bennett MP Peculiarity of Blame forward to the end of Waterloo Organised by the Professorial lecture lecture season soirée he organises for NCH students. Politics Faculty Professor Simon Blackburn In the Drawing Room It’s fantastic to make time to indulge my passion for Drinks with fellow theatre alongside my studies. NCHers in Soho!

Please note that timings are approximate. 33 A curriculum as broad as your horizons Choose your degree programme from the list below:

Degrees with an Art History major UCAS code English major (continued)

Art History with Creative Writing BA V3W8 English with History BA V136 Art History with Economics BA V3L1 English with Law BA* – Art History with English BA V3Q3 English with Philosophy BA P461 Art History with Geography BA* – English with Politics & IR BA S346 Art History with History BA V3V1 Degrees with a Geography major Art History with Law BA* – Geography with Art History BA* – Art History with Philosophy BA V3V5 Geography with Creative Writing BA* – Art History with Politics & IR BA V3L2 Geography with Economics BA* – Degrees with an Economics major Geography with English BA* – Economics with Art History BSc L1V3 Geography with History BA* – Economics with Creative Writing BSc L1W8 Geography with Law BA* – Economics with English BSc 3D46 Geography with Philosophy BA* – Economics with Geography BSc* – Geography with Politics & IR BA* – Economics with History BSc F716 Degrees with a History major Economics with Law BSc* – History with Art History BA V1V3 Economics with Philosophy BSc Q364 History with Creative Writing BA V1W8 Economics with Politics & IR BSc Q316 History with Economics BA K479 Philosophy, Politics & Economics BA LL11 (PPE with an Economics major) History with English BA Q479 History with Geography BA* – Degrees with an English major UCAS code History with Law BA* – English with Art History BA Q3V3 History with Philosophy BA K423 English with Creative Writing BA Q3W8 History with Politics & IR BA A179 English with Economics BA V497 Philosophy, Politics & History BA VL11 English with Geography BA* – (PPH with a History major)

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Single honours Law LLB UCAS code Politics & International Relations major (continued)

Law LLB* G243 Politics & IR with English BSc F479 Politics & IR with Geography BSc* – Degrees with a Law major Politics & IR with History BSc 4A63 Law with Art History LLB* – Politics & IR with Law BA* – Law with Creative Writing LLB* – Politics & IR with Philosophy BSc 69D1 Law with Economics LLB* – Philosophy, Politics & Economics BA L211 Law with English LLB* – (PPE with a Politics major) Law with Geography LLB* – Philosophy, Politics & History BA LL21 Law with History LLB* – (PPH with a Politics major) Law with Philosophy LLB* – Law with Politics & IR LLB* – In addition, study eight Core Courses for the NCH Diploma: Degrees with a Philosophy major Applied Ethics Philosophy with Art History BA V5V3 ■ Ethics in Public & Professional Life Philosophy with Creative Writing BA V5W8 ■ The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Philosophy with Economics BA 3K47 Responsibility Philosophy with English BA 3Q17 Critical Reasoning Philosophy with Geography BA* – ■ Formal & Informal Reasoning ■ Scientific Reasoning Philosophy with History BA K179 Philosophy with Law BA* – Science Literacy ■  Philosophy with Politics & IR BA T100 Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Philosophy, Politics & Economics BA V110 ■ The History of Science (PPE with a Philosophy major) Philosophy, Politics & History BA VL50 LAUNCH (PPH with a Philosophy major) ■ Introductory Capabilities ■ Applied Capabilities Degrees with a Politics & International Relations major

Politics & IR with Art History BSc L2V3 * We hope to launch Law major and minor options and a Politics & IR with Creative Writing BSc L2W8 new single honours Law LLB in September 2017, as well as Geography major and minor options in September 2018, Politics & IR with Economics BSc L496 subject to completion of the validation process. 35 Carolyn Stocker-Seiler English BA with Art History ‘The Art History programme is an innovative, high quality and engaging course. We have explored everything from the Byzantium Empire in 330 AD to the modern architecture of Wright and Behrens. The programme is taught by experts in their fields, whose extensive experience is brought into the classroom. By taking the course, one gains critical analysis skills, as well as comprehensive knowledge and understanding of art and its context, all of which can be applied to further areas of study.’

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Our Art History major

The study of Art History gives you the opportunity to see and interpret moments What will I study for in history through their architecture and material culture. The parameters of my minor? the Art History major at NCH have been set as widely as possible, from Europe To find out about the courses you to China, with a timespan that extends from antiquity to the contemporary. will study for your minor, go to The courses include cultural surveys as well as more intense media-specific nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate subjects including architecture, landscape, painting and ceramics.

In your first year In your second year In your third year Introduction to Art History The Industry of Art: Renaissance Modern Architecture 1851 to (30 credits) & Baroque Patrons, Artists, Objects the Present (30 credits) & Consumers (30 credits) The Art of the Byzantine World One course from: (30 credits) One course from: Ceramics of Asia (30 credits) The Art of the Islamic World The Elegiac Landscape (30 credits) Masters of America (30 credits) (30 credits) The City in Contemporary Plus: Course 1 in your minor History (30 credits) Dissertation (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal Plus: Course 3 in your minor (30 credits) & Informal Reasoning European Painting: Chardin to Critical Reasoning: Scientific Matisse (30 credits) Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public Reasoning Course 2 in your minor & Professional Life : Introductory Capabilities Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Human Rights & Individual Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Responsibility Science Literacy: The History : Applied Capabilities of Science

: Applied Capabilities

For more information on Art History, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/our-art-history-major

37 Francesca Foliano BSc (Bocconi), MSc (Sussex), PhD (Kent - pending) Visiting Lecturer in Economics

Nick Robertson Economics BSc with Politics & International Relations

Nick Robertson Economics BSc with Politics & International Relations ‘Studying Economics at NCH is a unique and rewarding experience. The one-to-one tutorial system means that there is time to explore the subject beyond its concepts and models. You gain a depth of understanding that allows you to apply your economic tools to other academic disciplines.’

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Our Economics major

The central purpose of the Economics major at NCH is to help you to understand What will I study for the structures that influence wellbeing and wealth. Our Economics programme my minor? encourages students to think critically about the building blocks of the discipline To find out about the courses you of economics, and enables them to use their knowledge to understand economic will study for your minor, go to events and decisions in the real world. nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate The key aims of all Economics courses at the College are threefold. Firstly, they encourage you to think rigorously about economic theory. Secondly, they develop your quantitative skills in order to engage with the subject as it is commonly practised. Finally, they help you to understand economic conditions in different institutional, geographic and socioeconomic settings. Please note that to study Economics as your major, you must have studied mathematics within the last two years of your secondary education. In your third year Applied Economics I & II (15 credits In your first year In your second year each, must be taken together) Introduction to Economics Microeconomics (30 credits) Two courses from: (30 credits) Macroeconomics I & II (15 credits Political Economy (30 credits) Mathematics (15 credits) each, must be taken together) Finance I & II (15 credits each, Statistics (15 credits) Econometrics (30 credits) must be taken together)

International Development Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) Dissertation (30 credits) (30 credits) Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Plus: Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Course 3 in your minor (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal Science Literacy: The History & Informal Reasoning of Science Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life Critical Reasoning: Scientific : Applied Capabilities Reasoning Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human : Introductory Capabilities Rights & Individual Responsibility : Applied Capabilities

For more information on Economics, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/our-economics-major

39 Professor Sir Trevor Nunn CBE MA (Cantab) Visiting Professor of Drama

Swara Kadir English BA with Art History (Lond/NCH, 2015)

Professor Sir Trevor Nunn CBE the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of 28. MA (Cantab) Between 1997 and 2003, he was Artistic Director of the Visiting Professor of Drama Royal National Theatre, and he is currently Artistic Sir Trevor Nunn is one of the UK’s most respected Director of the Haymarket Theatre Royal in London. and influential theatre directors. At NCH, he lectures He has won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a and runs workshops for our English students in his Musical for Cats and Les Misérables, and the Laurence role as Visiting Professor of Drama. Olivier Award for Best Director for all of Summerfolk, After studying English under F R Leavis at Downing The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, and The College, Cambridge, Sir Trevor became Director of Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

40 ENGLISH

Our English major

The English major at NCH combines the broad historical coverage of traditional What will I study for English degrees with distinctive features including Shakespeare through the ages. my minor? In the period courses, it is up to you which authors you choose to write about. To find out about the courses you There is a strong emphasis on comparison: of Canadian, Native American will study for your minor, go to and Hispanic literatures for North American Literature; Cultures of London nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate covers multicultural London from Shakespeare’s time up to the present; and Comparative Literature asks you to compare different literatures, or art forms, or to produce your own creative writing project in response to another work of art.

In your first year In your second year In your third year Literature 1700–1830 (30 credits) Literature 1550–1700 (30 credits) North American Literature (30 credits) Literature 1830–1900 (30 credits) Literature 1900 to the Present (30 credits) Cultures of London (30 credits) Criticism (30 credits) Literary Kinds [Shakespeare] Comparative Literature (30 credits) Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) (30 credits)• Course 3 in your minor (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) & Informal Reasoning Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public Critical Reasoning: Scientific Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, & Professional Life Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Reasoning Applied Ethics: The Good Life, : Introductory Capabilities Science Literacy: The History Human Rights & Individual of Science Responsibility

: Applied Capabilities : Applied Capabilities

• Please note that whilst Shakespeare For more information on English, visit is the current focus of this course, the nchlondon.ac.uk/our-english-major featured writer is subject to rotation.

41 Urte Cibulskaite Philosophy BA with Politics & International Relations Ted Simonds (Lond/NCH, 2016) English with History BA

42 GEOGRAPHY

Our Geography major*

We plan to launch Geography as a major and a minor option in 2018. These What will I study for my options will focus on human geography, which is the study of the cultures and minor? economies of the world’s peoples, and their interactions with one another and To find out about the courses you the environment. will study for your minor, go to At the time of publication it is not possible to provide course titles. However, we nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate anticipate that the following topics are indicative of some of those that may be included in the new programmes.

Introduction to Geography & Climate, Resources & Sustainability Environmental Science Globalisation & its Impacts Peoples, Cultures & Environments Trade & International Arrangements Developed & Developing Societies Health, Development & Environment Prosperity & Poverty

To be the first to receive more information about our new Geography programmes, sign up for our email newsletters at nchlondon.ac.uk

For more information on Geography, visit *We hope to introduce Geography as a major and minor in nchlondon.ac.uk/our-geography-major September 2018, subject to completion of the validation process.

43 Robert Howell History with English BA

Robert Howell History with English BA ‘My time at NCH has allowed me to develop my capacity for cogent argument, to debate, challenge and engage with the giants of the field, and to explore the broad vista of human experience with academic rigour. Above all else, I’ve learned that the study of history is not for the faint of heart: you must learn to be bold, curious and daring – not an easy task – but you will be nurtured, encouraged and supported every step of the way by an intellectually reflective and personally generous Dr Suzannah Lipscomb faculty. Thus far, it has been a lifechanging journey, MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS and it is one I look forward to continuing.’ Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History

44 HISTORY

Our History major

The History major covers a broad sweep of history from the Roman Empire What will I study for through to present-day America. Six increasingly focused, period-specific my minor? courses, which encourage real intellectual depth, are accompanied by two To find out about the courses you survey courses and a course reflecting on the nature of the historical discipline, will study for your minor, go to its practice, and its real-world application. nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate In your third year, you will also write a 7,000-word dissertation on a topic of your own choosing. In your first year In your second year In your third year 16th Century England (30 credits) History, Heritage & Memory Two courses from: (30 credits) Britain & the Wider World (30 credits) Heap of Shot or Pot of Treacle? One course from: Social History in Britain One course from: 1870–1914 (30 credits) How to Live Well: The History of From Roman Empire to Ideas from Plato to Marx (30 credits) The Crusades & the Expansion of Medieval Kingdoms 300-900: The Europe, c.1000 – c.1200 (30 credits)* Transformation of Power (30 credits) How to Govern Well: The History of Ideas from Aristotle to Bakunin The City in American Politics Medieval Europe 1000–1300: (30 credits)* (30 credits)* Faith and Power (30 credits) One course from: Plus: Plus: The City in American Political Life: Power & Politics (30 credits) Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) 1776 to the Present Day (30 credits) Course 3 in your minor (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal & A Long Civil Rights Movement? Informal Reasoning Black Political Protest 1918–1968 Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life Critical Reasoning: Scientific (30 credits) Reasoning Plus: Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual : Introductory Capabilities Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) Responsibility Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, : Applied Capabilities Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Science Literacy: The History of Science *We hope to introduce this course in For more information on History, visit September 2018, subject to completion : Applied Capabilities nchlondon.ac.uk/our-history-major of the validation process.

45 Susan Trepekli Law LLB with History (Lond/NCH, 2015)

46 LAW

Law at NCH

At NCH, we are pleased to offer Law as a single honours LLB, or a combined honours LLB. The LLB is a Qualifying Law Degree, covering all of the areas of study required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board to permit progression onto professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister. Whether you study Law as a single or combined honours degree with us, you will take the eight courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, which are shown overleaf.

Susan Trepekli Law LLB with History (Lond/NCH, 2015) Clifford Chance Graduate Training Programme 2016 ‘Studying Law at NCH has been an incredible experience: the academic support coupled with the bespoke careers guidance were instrumental in helping me prepare for interviews and secure my graduate placement. ‘ , the College’s professional development programme, inspired me to develop the commercial awareness necessary for the case studies I encountered in interviews, while the one-to-one tutorials helped to develop my confidence in building and defending arguments.’

For more information on Law, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/our-law-llb

47 Our single honours Law LLB*

If you choose the single honours LLB at NCH, you will study In your second year, you will study criminal law, the law of the eight courses required for the Qualifying Law Degree. tort (civil wrongs), and the law of equity and trusts. You You will take an additional four courses in Law to ensure a will also take a legal research and advocacy course, which more in-depth legal education. will give you the opportunity to discover how a legal case In your first year, you will learn how laws are formed and is constructed and argued in court, and to develop the how the legal and justice systems are structured and skills to do this yourself. administered, together with studying areas such as the law In your third year, you will study the laws of the European that regulates government, the relationship between the Union and property law, in particular land law. You will also individual and the state, and contracts. The employment choose two courses from commercial law, company law, or law course will cover the nature and regulation of a dissertation. Alternatively, you may choose a dissertation employment, including discrimination law and workers’ whilst studying commercial and company law as half- and employees’ rights. courses.

In your first year In your second year In your third year English Legal System (30 credits)• Criminal Law (30 credits)• Law of the European Union (30 credits)• Public Law (30 credits)• Law of Tort (30 credits)• Law of Property (30 credits)• Contract Law (30 credits)• Law of Equity & Trusts (30 credits)• Plus, either two courses from: Employment Law (30 credits) Legal Research & Advocacy (30 credits) Commercial Law (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal & Company Law (30 credits) Informal Reasoning Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Critical Reasoning: Scientific Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Dissertation (30 credits) Reasoning Science Literacy: The History Or the following three courses: of Science : Introductory Capabilities Elements of Commercial Law : Applied Capabilities (15 credits)

Elements of Company Law (15 credits)

Dissertation (30 credits)

Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life * We hope to introduce this programme in September 2017, subject to completion of the validation process. Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility • Course required for Qualifying Law Degree. 48 : Applied Capabilities LAW

Our combined honours Law LLB*

If you choose our combined honours LLB, you will study In your second year, you will study criminal law, the law of Law as your major, and a second subject of your choice as tort (civil wrongs), and the law of equity and trusts, and in your minor. To find out more about the courses you will your final year, you will look at the laws of the European study for your minor, go to nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate Union and property law, in particular land law. In your first year, you will learn how laws are formed and The above references the eight courses required for the how the legal and justice systems are structured and Qualifying Law Degree. In addition, you will take two administered, together with studying areas such as the law half-courses in company and commercial law, giving a that regulates government, the relationship between the rounded appreciation of corporate matters and trade or, individual and the state, and contracts. alternatively, you may wish to choose a dissertation.

In your first year In your second year In your third year English Legal System (30 credits)• Criminal Law (30 credits)• Law of the European Union (30 credits)• Public Law (30 credits)• Law of Tort (30 credits)• Law of Property (30 credits)• Contract Law (30 credits)• Law of Equity & Trusts (30 credits)• Plus, either: Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) Elements of Commercial Law Critical Reasoning: Formal Science Literacy: Physics, (15 credits) & Informal Reasoning Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology Elements of Company Law (15 credits) & Neuroscience Critical Reasoning: Scientific Or: Reasoning Science Literacy: The History of Science Dissertation (30 credits) : Introductory Capabilities : Applied Capabilities Plus: Course 3 in your minor (30 credits)

Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life

Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility * We hope to introduce this programme in September 2017, subject to completion of the validation process. : Applied Capabilities • Course required for Qualifying Law Degree.

49 Dr David Mitchell BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE) Pawel Trzciakowski Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Philosophy with Politics & International Relations BA

Dr David Mitchell Besides philosophy, David has pursued research in BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE) classics and in international development, and has Senior Lecturer in Philosophy engaged in consultancy work with UN agencies. Dr David Mitchell obtained a double first in Literae His research interests are in social and political Humaniores at the University of Oxford and went on thought, particularly those aspects of their history in to complete a DPhil there on problems of rationality the West that are relevant to philosophical questions in epistemology and ethics. He has taught philosophy about international development today. His published at Cambridge, Leicester and London universities, philosophical work is in the fields of the history of in the European programmes of several American ethics, applied ethics and practical reasoning, and he universities, and at the Aga Khan University’s Institute is currently working on a book-length treatment of for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. ideas of corruption and the corrupt.

50 PHILOSOPHY

Our Philosophy major

In your first year, you will investigate questions of ethics and political philosophy What will I study for through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill, as well as questions my minor? about mind and world and the limits of human knowledge through the works of To find out about the courses you Descartes and the Empiricists. You will also take a course in logic, starting with will study for your minor, go to rules of good reasoning and truth-preserving patterns of argument. nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate In later years, you will engage with ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science, and select among options covering advanced ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of mind and language, political philosophy, and Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. You will also write a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

In your first year In your second year In your third year Ethics (30 credits) Ancient Philosophy (30 credits) Two courses from:

Logic: Formal & Philosophical Epistemology & Philosophy Advanced Ethics (30 credits) (30 credits) of Science (30 credits) Aesthetics (30 credits)

Modern Philosophy (30 credits) Metaphysics (30 credits) Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits)

Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) Philosophy of Mind & Language Critical Reasoning: Formal Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, (30 credits) & Informal Reasoning Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Political Philosophy (30 credits)

Critical Reasoning: Scientific Science Literacy: The History Plus: Reasoning of Science Dissertation (30 credits) : Introductory Capabilities : Applied Capabilities Course 3 in your minor (30 credits)

Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life

Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility For more information on Philosophy, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/our-philosophy-major : Applied Capabilities

51 Hannah Averill George Linfield Delphine Legat History with Politics & English BA with History Politics & International International Relations BA Relations BSc with Philosophy (Lond/NCH, 2016)

Delphine Legat Politics & International Relations BSc with Philosophy ‘Politics & International Relations is a really flexible programme; the material we learn is constantly changing and it’s fascinating to apply the theories we study to our everyday lives. There is an overlap with all the modules that makes cross-learning really useful. The lecturers are friendly and understanding, and they make a massive effort to make sure you understand the subject matter in tutorials and seminars. I would recommend this course to anyone who is interested in the wider world and its political systems.’

52 POLITICS & IR

Our Politics & International Relations major

The study of politics comprises political theory looking at normative questions, What will I study for and political science looking at the organisation of government. International my minor? relations examines governance, institution-building and decision making through To find out about the courses you an analysis of historical phenomena, economic conditions, diplomatic relations, will study for your minor, go to security and sociocultural linkages among state and non-state sectors. nchlondon.ac.uk/undergraduate In your third year of the Politics & International Relations major, you may designate one of your two 15-credit courses to be assessed by a 5000-word dissertation. In your third year In your first year In your second year International Organisations: Global & Local (30 credits) Introduction to Concepts & Methods Old Powers, New Powers: International Political Economy of Political Science (30 credits) Imperialism, Colonialism & the (30 credits) Modern State (30 credits) Modern Political Thought British Constitutional & Political (30 credits)* The European Union in the History Since 1895 (15 credits) World (30 credits) One course from:** Plus, either: One course from: Britain & the Wider World (30 credits) Modern British Government & Development of India: From • International Development Politics (15 credits)• Ancient to Modern (15 credits) (30 credits) Contemporary Politics of the AND Societies in Transition Middle East (15 credits)• Plus: (15 credits)• Dissertation (15 credits) Course 1 in your minor (30 credits) Or one of: Plus: Critical Reasoning: Formal The City in American Political Life: Course 3 in your minor (30 credits) & Informal Reasoning 1776 to the Present Day (30 credits) A Long Civil Rights Movement? Critical Reasoning: Scientific Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public Black Political Protest, 1918 –1968 Reasoning & Professional Life (30 credits) Applied Ethics: The Good Life, : Introductory Capabilities Plus: Human Rights & Individual *   This course has been validated but is Course 2 in your minor (30 credits) Responsibility currently under review to be validated as a core course. Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, : Applied Capabilities ** If Economics is your minor, you will study Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Britain & the Wider World. If History is your minor, you will study International Science Literacy: The History For more information on Politics & Development. All other students have a of Science IR, visit nchlondon.ac.uk/our-politics- choice between these courses. : Applied Capabilities international-relations-major •  Due to its specialist nature and faculty availability, this course may not be offered. 53 Nick Gorham Economics BA with Politics & International Relations

Nick Robertson Economics BA with Philosophy

Valquirya Borba Philosophy, Politics & Economics BA (PPE) ‘Studying PPE at NCH forces me to look at the big picture. It’s easy to get lost in the problems of philosophical logic on a Monday evening, but on Tuesday afternoon, in my Economics lecture, I have to think about the effectiveness of fiscal policy, and then on Friday morning I get to discuss J S Mill’s On Liberty in a one-to-one tutorial. I really feel like I get the best of all worlds!’

54 PPE

PPE with a Philosophy major

The Philosophy, Politics & Economics programme, questions of ethics and political philosophy, mind and with Philosophy as your major, consists of two courses world, the limits of human knowledge, and logic. in Philosophy and one course in each of Politics and In later years, you will choose from a range of options Economics in each year of study. including ancient philosophy, metaphysics and a course Studying Philosophy as your major, you will investigate on Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

In your first year In your second year In your third year Study two courses in Philosophy: Study two courses in Philosophy: Study two courses in Philosophy: Ethics (30 credits) Modern Philosophy (30 credits) Dissertation (30 credits) Logic: Formal & Philosophical And one of: And one of: (30 credits) Ancient Philosophy (30 credits) Advanced Ethics (30 credits) Study one course in each of Metaphysics (30 credits) Aesthetics (30 credits) Politics and Economics: Study one course in each of Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) Modern Political Thought (30 credits) Politics and Economics: Philosophy of Mind & Language Economics for Non-Specialists Old Powers, New Powers: (30 credits) (30 credits) Imperialism, Colonialism & the Political Philosophy (30 credits) Plus: Modern State (30 credits) Study one course in each of Critical Reasoning: Formal & Economic Development (30 credits) Politics and Economics: Informal Reasoning Plus: International Organisations: Critical Reasoning: Scientific Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Global & Local (30 credits) Reasoning Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Political Economy (30 credits) : Introductory Capabilities Science Literacy: The History Plus: of Science Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public : Applied Capabilities & Professional Life Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility : Applied Capabilities

55 PPE with a Politics major

The Philosophy, Politics & Economics programme, with The study of Politics as your major comprises political Politics as your major, consists of two courses in Politics theory looking at normative questions, and political and one course in each of Philosophy and Economics science looking at the organisation of government. in each year of study.

In your first year In your second year In your third year Study two courses in Politics: Study two courses in Politics: Study two courses in Politics: Introduction to Political Science Old Powers, New Powers: International Organisations: (30 credits) Imperialism, Colonisation & the Global & Local (30 credits) Modern Political Thought Modern State (30 credits) Dissertation (30 credits) (30 credits) The European Union in the Study one of the following Study one course in each of World (30 credits) Philosophy courses: Philosophy and Economics: Study one course in each of Advanced Ethics (30 credits) Philosophy and Economics: Ethics (30 credits) Aesthetics (30 credits) Modern Philosophy (Advanced) Economics for Non-Specialists Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) (30 credits) (30 credits) Philosophy of Mind & Language Plus: Economic Development (30 credits) (30 credits) Plus: Critical Reasoning: Formal & Political Philosophy (30 credits) Informal Reasoning Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Study one course in Economics: Critical Reasoning: Scientific Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Reasoning Science Literacy: The History Political Economy (30 credits) of Science : Introductory Capabilities Plus: : Applied Capabilities Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility : Applied Capabilities

56 PPE

PPE with an Economics major

The Philosophy, Politics & Economics programme, with building blocks of the discipline of economics, as well as Economics as your major, consists of two courses in to enable you to use your knowledge to understand Economics and one course in each of Philosophy and economic events and decisions in the real world. Politics in each year of study. Please note that to study Economics as your major, you The central purpose of the Economics major is to help must have studied mathematics within the last two years students understand the structures that influence wellbeing of your secondary education. and wealth, encouraging you to think critically about the

In your first year In your second year In your third year Study one full course and two Study two courses in Economics: Study two courses in Economics: half courses in Economics: Economic Development (30 credits) Political Economy (30 credits) Introduction to Economics And one of: Dissertation (30 credits) (30 credits) Microeconomics (30 credits) Study one of the following Mathematics (15 credits) Philosophy courses: Macroeconomics I & II (15 credits Statistics (15 credits) each, must be taken together) Advanced Ethics (30 credits) Study one course in each of Study one course in each of Aesthetics (30 credits) Philosophy and Politics: Philosophy and Politics: Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) Ethics (30 credits) Modern Philosophy (Advanced) Philosophy of Mind & Language Modern Political Thought (30 credits) (30 credits) (30 credits) Plus: Old Powers, New Powers: Political Philosophy (30 credits) Imperialism, Colonialism & the Critical Reasoning: Formal & Study one course in Politics: Informal Reasoning Modern State (30 credits) Plus: International Organisations: Critical Reasoning: Scientific Global & Local (30 credits) Reasoning Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Plus: : Introductory Capabilities Science Literacy: The History Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public of Science & Professional Life : Applied Capabilities Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility : Applied Capabilities

57 Professor Simon Blackburn BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) Visiting Professor of Philosophy

Professor Simon Blackburn Association and a former editor of the journal BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) Mind, Simon is an Honorary Foreign Member of the Visiting Professor of Philosophy American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Professor Simon Blackburn is one of the country’s Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics, Lust, Truth: A leading philosophers, highly regarded as a proponent Guide and Plato’s Republic: A Biography. of a distinctive approach to ethics and a defender of neo-Humean views on a variety of topics. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge until 2011. While teaching at NCH, he Previously Vice President of the British Humanist continues as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

58 PPH

PPH with a Philosophy major

The Philosophy, Politics & History programme, with Philosophy as your major, In your third year consists of two courses in Philosophy and one course in each of Politics and Study two courses in Philosophy: History in each year of study. Studying Philosophy as your major, you will investigate questions of ethics and political philosophy, mind and world, the Dissertation (30 credits) limits of human knowledge, and logic. In later years, you will choose from a range And one of: of options including ancient philosophy, metaphysics and a course on Kant, Advanced Ethics (30 credits) Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Aesthetics (30 credits) Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) In your first year In your second year Philosophy of Mind & Language Study two courses in Philosophy: Study two courses in Philosophy: (30 credits) Ethics (30 credits) Modern Philosophy (Advanced) Political Philosophy Logic: Formal & Philosophical (30 credits) Study one course in Politics: (30 credits) And one of: International Organisations: Study one course in each of Ancient Philosophy (30 credits) Global & Local (30 credits) Politics and History: Metaphysics (30 credits) Study one of the following History courses: Modern Political Thought (30 credits) Study one course in each of Britain & the Wider World Politics and History: Power & Politics (30 credits), to be assessed by dissertation (30 credits) Old Powers, New Powers: Plus: Imperialism, Colonialism & the Heap of Shot or Pot of Treacle? Social History in Britain 1870–1914 (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Formal & Modern State (30 credits) Informal Reasoning History, Heritage & Memory The Crusades & the Expansion of Europe, c.1000 – c.1200 (30 credits)* Critical Reasoning: Scientific (30 credits) Reasoning Plus: The City in American Politics (30 credits)* : Introductory Capabilities Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience Plus: Science Literacy: The History Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & of Science Professional Life : Applied Capabilities Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility *We hope to introduce this course in September 2018, subject to completion : Applied Capabilities of the validation process.

59 PPH with a Politics major

Our Philosophy, Politics & History programme, with Politics as your major, In your third year consists of two courses in Politics and one course in each of Philosophy and Study two courses in Politics: History in each year of study. The study of Politics as your major comprises International Organisations: political theory looking at normative questions, and political science looking Global & Local (30 credits) at the organisation of government. Dissertation (30 credits) Study one of the following In your first year In your second year Philosophy courses: Study two courses in Politics: Study two courses in Politics: Advanced Ethics (30 credits) Aesthetics (30 credits) Introduction to Political Science Old Powers, New Powers: (30 credits) Imperialism, Colonialism & the Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) Modern Political Thought (30 credits) Modern State (30 credits) Philosophy of Mind & Language (30 credits) Study one course in each of The European Union in the World Philosophy and History: (30 credits) Political Philosophy (30 credits) Study one course in each of Ethics (30 credits) Study one of the following Philosophy and History: History courses: Britain & the Wider World Power & Politics (30 credits), (30 credits) Modern Philosophy (Advanced) (30 credits) to be assessed by dissertation Plus: History, Heritage & Memory Heap of Shot or Pot of Treacle? Critical Reasoning: Formal & (30 credits) Social History in Britain 1870–1914 Informal Reasoning (30 credits) Plus: Critical Reasoning: Scientific The Crusades & the Expansion of Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, Reasoning Europe, c.1000 – c.1200 (30 credits)* Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience : Introductory Capabilities The City in American Politics Science Literacy: The History (30 credits)* of Science Plus: : Applied Capabilities Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public & Professional Life Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Human Rights & Individual Responsibility *We hope to introduce this course in : Applied Capabilities September 2018, subject to completion of the validation process. 60 PPH

PPH with a History major

The Philosophy, Politics & History programme, with History as your major, In your third year consists of two courses in History and one course in each of Philosophy and Study two courses in History: Politics in each year of study. Our History curriculum explores economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual history, and demands analytical rigour, precision Power & Politics (30 credits), to be of thought, the capacity for empathy and the ability to communicate clearly. assessed by dissertation And one of: In your first year In your second year Heap of Shot or Pot of Treacle? Study two courses in History: Study two courses in History: Social History in Britain 1870–1914 (30 credits) Britain & the Wider World (30 credits) History, Heritage & Memory The Crusades & the Expansion of (30 credits) And one of: Europe, c.1000 – c.1200 (30 credits)* And one of: Medieval Europe 1000–1300: The City in American Politics Faith & Power (30 credits) The City in American Life: 1776 to (30 credits)* the Present Day (30 credits) From Roman Empire to Medieval Study one of the following Kingdoms (30 credits) A Long Civil Rights Movement? Philosophy courses: 16th Century England (30 credits) Black Political Protest 1918 to 1968 Advanced Ethics (30 credits) (30 credits) Study one course in each of Aesthetics (30 credits) How to Live Well: A History of Ideas Philosophy and Politics: Kant to Nietzsche (30 credits) from Plato to Marx (30 credits) Ethics (30 credits) Philosophy of Mind & Language How to Govern Well: The History (30 credits) Modern Political Thought (30 credits) of Ideas from Aristotle to Bakunin Plus: (30 credits) Political Philosophy (30 credits) Study one course in Politics: Critical Reasoning: Formal & Study one course in each of Informal Reasoning Philosophy and Politics: International Organisations: Global & Local (30 credits) Critical Reasoning: Scientific Modern Philosophy (Advanced) Reasoning (30 credits) Plus: : Introductory Capabilities Old Powers, New Powers: Imperialism, Applied Ethics: Ethics in Public Colonisation & the Modern State & Professional Life (30 credits) Applied Ethics: The Good Life, Plus: Human Rights & Individual Responsibility Science Literacy: Physics, Cosmology, *We hope to introduce this course in Evolutionary Biology & Neuroscience : Applied Capabilities September 2018, subject to completion of the validation process. Science Literacy: The History of Science 61 : Applied Capabilities Jaya Savige BA, MPhil (UQ), PhD (Cantab – pending) Lecturer in Creative Writing & English

Kinga Jurkiewicz Philosophy, Politics & Economics BA

Jaya Savige BA, MPhil (UQ), PhD (Cantab – pending) Lecturer in Creative Writing & English ‘Words, story and character are no mere ornaments to intellectual life, but are its very essence. Seeing the world as a creative writer develops your capacity to distil complex thought and feeling with articulacy, acuity and sensitivity.’

62 CREATIVE WRITING

Our Creative Writing minor

Studying Creative Writing helps you to harness the full What will I study? expressive potential and persuasive power of language. The Creative Writing minor covers the craft of writing It provides you with the tools and the confidence to creatively in four literary forms: poetry, prose fiction, approach a wide range of literary forms – from poetry scriptwriting and creative non-fiction. Across the and short fiction, to creative nonfiction and scriptwriting three years of your degree, a suite of innovative, for stage, radio and screen – with aesthetic judgement practice-based courses is designed to unlock your and practical command. creativity and progressively enhance your understanding This programme cultivates your sensitivity to the written of the writer’s craft in rigorous and stimulating ways. word from a practitioner’s perspective, while honing your The programme culminates in a self-devised, guided understanding and appreciation of the creative process final year project, accompanied by an applied course and the path from a project’s commencement to its on editing and publishing during which you will gain publication or performance. first-hand experience of the publishing process by Graduates of this programme will be equipped with overseeing the publication of the annual NCH Creative the sophisticated written communication skills, creative Writing Anthology. problem-solving abilities and discernment necessary for a wide variety of careers in the creative and cultural industries, including journalism, politics, public relations, In your first year advertising and media (television, film, radio, web media). The Writer’s Craft: Lexicon & Style (30 credits)

In your second year

The Writer’s Voice: Influence & Innovation (30 credits)

In your third year

Final Year Project & Publishing Horizons (30 credits)

63 Professor A C Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon), FRSL, FRSA Master of the College & Professor of Philosophy

Nils Zimmerman Economics BSc with Politics & International Relations ‘NCH provides opportunities to meet great thinkers. I could be introduced to revolutionary theories by Lawrence Krauss, or listen to the Vice President of the European Central Bank. This place makes you live your interests.’

64 NCH DIPLOMA

The NCH Diploma

Studied by all undergraduates What courses will I study for my diploma? at the College, the NCH Diploma complements, enriches and further contextualises your degree. It equips of of you with an intelligent understanding 50% diploma 50% diploma of the core concepts, arguments and theories that underpin the study of Applied Ethics (2 courses): the humanities, and enables you to Ethics in Public & Professional Life approach your degree studies in a The Good Life, Human Rights more rounded and enlightened way. & Individual Responsibility Its eight Core Courses are a rich (2 courses): mix of Applied Ethics, Critical Critical Reasoning (2 courses): Introductory Capabilities, including: Reasoning and Science Literacy, as Marketing well as , our professional Formal & Informal Reasoning development programme that teaches Scientific Reasoning Market Research you the core skills and behaviours Working in Teams you will need to succeed after Science Literacy (2 courses): Writing & Presenting university. Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Situated at the heart of the College’s Biology & Neuroscience Applied Capabilities, including: enriching liberal arts curriculum, The History of Science Entrepreneurship & Innovation the NCH Diploma offers a unique combination of subjects and Financial Literacy disciplines. Selling It is awarded to NCH graduates in Decision Making, Judgement addition to their degree, and sets & Advocacy them apart from their peers by Strategy & Problem Solving marking the greater depth of their education at university level. Working in Digital

65 Applied Ethics Critical Reasoning

The study of ethics explores what constitutes a good life The programme will introduce you to the fundamental and a just society, and encourages us to consider how we methods and principles of good reasoning. You will learn balance our own needs and desires with those of other how to identify patterns of argument, evaluate evidence, individuals, our environment and the ‘greater good’. and articulate your ideas clearly and persuasively. This Our Applied Ethics programme engages with a variety will not only inform the close reading, essay writing and of ethical challenges and debates, ranging from human debating you do as part of your degree, but will also allow rights and civil liberties to corporate responsibility and you to express yourself intelligently and authoritatively the freedom of the press. You will learn to broaden your after you graduate, no matter what you decide to do next. recognition of alternative arguments and perspectives, as The programme comprises two courses: well as hone your skills in argument in order to justify and develop your own views. Formal & Informal Scientific Reasoning Reasoning The programme comprises two courses: Indicative topics include: Indicative topics include: Ethics in Public & The Good Life, Human Concepts & Techniques Confirmation Theory Professional Life Rights & Individual of Formal Logic Responsibility Experiment, Observation Indicative topics include: Deduction & Induction & Theory Indicative topics include: Access to Justice Rhetoric and Persuasion Scientific Explanation Civil Liberties Authority The Tropes of Informal The Value of Computer Effective Altruism Corporate Responsibility Logic Simulations Ethics & Animals Freedom of the Press The Value of Truth Thought Experiments Happiness Medical Ethics War Poetry & Witnessing

For more information on our unique diploma, go to nchlondon.ac.uk/diploma

66 NCH DIPLOMA

Science Literacy Preparation for the world of work

Providing an insight into fundamental scientific principles develops winning attitudes, behaviours and and approaches, the programme both complements and capabilities that are widely applicable for a range of enriches the study of the humanities. It is designed for professions, but that are particularly well-suited for non-scientists and requires minimal mathematical skills. roles after graduation in the creative industries and You will learn about the rise of modern science, scientific professional services. revolutions and the innovations made by pioneers The programme is delivered through project work, such as Galileo, Newton and Darwin. You will explore interactive seminars and small group discussions with the beginnings of the universe, fundamental physics, leading professionals from a variety of industries. Each year, students work in teams to explore and address evolutionary biology, social evolution, neurobiology current issues faced by a range of enterprises and, to and human psychology. date, have developed projects for organisations including The programme comprises two courses: On Our Radar, Find A Cure, Give Me Tap, Angelus and 21st Century Tiger. Physics, Cosmology, The History of Science The programme comprises two courses: Evolutionary Biology Indicative topics include: & Neuroscience Introductory Capabilities Applied Capabilities Darwin & his Predecessors (Year 1) (Years 2 and 3) Indicative topics include: Geocentric & Component parts include: Component parts include: Ecology & Biodiversity Heliocentric Models Marketing Entrepreneurship & Fundamental Physics Motion: From Aristotle Innovation Market Research to Newton Natural Selection Financial Literacy Working in Teams Scientific Revolutions Neurons & Behaviour Selling Writing & Presenting The Rise of Cognitive The Expanding Universe Decision Making, Science Judgement & Advocacy

Strategy & Problem Solving

Working in Digital

Working in Teams reprise

Year Two Project

Year Three Project 67 Our exceptional graduates

The outstanding achievements of our graduates, year-on-year, prove that our unique curriculum produces young people who not only have an excellent degree, but who are also highly desirable in the graduate recruitment market and well-prepared to make the transition from university to the world of work. Equally, many of our graduates have used their NCH degree as a springboard to progress to postgraduate study at some of the world’s top universities.

68 GRADUATES

Raphael Tulkens Charlie Evans Philosophy BA with Art History (Lond/NCH, 2015) Economics BSc with Philosophy & Politics Law, University of Oxford (Lond/NCH 2015) ‘Studying at NCH has significantly Consultant, Deutsche Bank changed the way I think about and ‘The buzzing atmosphere at NCH is interact with the world. After three years unrivalled. The College has such a sense spent in such a challenging academic of excitement and brilliance about it that environment, I feel more able to engage with my it is difficult to imagine being a student surroundings more critically and meaningfully. at a university where you are simply passing through In particular, the one-to-one tutorial system has instead of being a part of the action. One of NCH’s benefitted me enormously for my further studies lesser mentioned attributes, aside from the world-class in law at the University of Oxford.’ academics and lectures the size of book clubs, are the opportunities that are at the foundation of the amazing Mariella Hudson experience here.’ English BA with History (Lond/NCH 2015) HAUS Publishing Tess Darbyshire ‘My time at NCH allowed me to Philosophy BA with understand the full extent of my Politics & Economics (Lond/NCH, 2015) intellectual worth, which is different to Creative Strategist, Corke Wallis just having a piece of paper that says ‘NCH is like nothing else, absolutely you did well; although I got one of those too! After an spectacular, and provides an entirely extraordinary period of doing everything intensely - unique education. The atmosphere working intensely, feeling intensely, creating intensely is familial and supportive, and - I have a sense of freedom, now, as I approach the every individual is given all encouragement they life I’d like to carve out for myself. I’m not worried might need.’ about what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it, because I know that I can do it.’

69 Miranda di Carcaci English BA with Art History (Lond/NCH 2016) Co-founder & Communications Director at Vagaband

70 Graduate employment & student internship offers

Arts & Heritage FMCG & Retail Public Sector & NGO

Belarus Free Theatre Debenhams Civil Service Fast Stream Imperial War Museum Diageo Institute of Economic AffaIrs Kensington Palace Mulberry The British Council Warner Music Travelex The European Commission UN – International Maritime Banking & Finance Journalism & Broadcasting Organisation Barclays BBC Marketing, Advertising & PR Blackrock The Daily Mail Corke Wallis Cannaccord Genuity The Daily Telegraph Diageo Deutsche Bank The Sunday Times Enders Analysis JP Morgan The Week Grey Advertising Kleinwort Benson Law Hanover National Bank of Greece Allen & Overy Institute of Practitioners The Fine Art Fund Group in Advertising Baker & MacKenzie Maher Bird Associates LLP Charity & Social Enterprise Clifford Chance Porsche Fondazione Nuove Fiore DLA Piper PS Live Give Me Tap Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer INTO University Hogan Lovells Tech

Shelter Norton Rose Fulbright Byte Step Up Slater & Gordon Crowdmix The Ginko Library Slaughter & May Ocado

Consulting & Management Media & Publishing Postgraduate study

Deloitte Haus Publishing City, University of London Econovision Orion Publishing King’s College London Eden McCallum The Good Schools Guide LSE Lambert Smith Hampton The Courtauld Institute of Art MSB Consultancy NCH Student Enterprises The New School, NY

PWC End of Moving Walkway Theatre University College London The Grange Group Eruditio Capital University of Cambridge 71 Webber Fox Vagaband University of Oxford Henrik Polzer Philosophy, Politics & Mollie Charge Economics BA History with Philosophy BA

6.16 hrs NCH students benefit from an average of 6.16 hours per week in teaching groups of fewer than five students, versus approximately 0.86 hours per week at Russell Group universities.

72 QUALIFICATIONS

Your qualifications

New College of the Humanities’ degrees Cambridge, and Professor of Poetry at the Government at the University of Oxford, have been designed and created by the University of Oxford. Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary College’s world-class professors and In the case of the History major and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal faculty. The courses reflect their areas of minor, the curriculum has been overseen Studies, Fellow of the Academy of the Social expertise and research interests, meaning and developed by Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Sciences and a former adviser to a number that they are strongly engaged with the MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, Senior of governments, including those of Albania, material that they will teach you, and Lecturer in Early Modern History, author the Czech Republic and Hungary. there may be opportunities for students and broadcaster. In the case of the Creative Writing minor, to participate in active research. In the case of the single honours Law the curriculum has been overseen and In the case of the Art History major and LLB and the Law major and minor, the developed by Jaya Savige BA, MPhil (UQ), minor, the curriculum has been overseen curriculum has been overseen and PhD (Cantab - pending), Gates Cambridge and developed by Dr Melanie Gibson BA advocated by Professor Adrian Zuckerman Scholar, poet and Poetry Editor of The (Oxon), MA, PhD (Lond), Head of Faculty LLM (Jerusalem), MA (Oxon), Visiting Australian. & Senior Lecturer in Art History, Senior Professor of Law at NCH, Professor of Civil New College of the Humanities has Editor for the Gingko Library Art Series, Procedure at the University of Oxford, and undergone a review for educational Outreach Director for the British Institute tutor at University College London and oversight by the Quality Assurance of Persian Studies (BIPS), and Fellow of King’s College London. A leading figure Agency for Higher Education (QAA). NCH the Royal Asiatic Society. in civil litigation and the administration is subject to educational oversight by In the case of the Economics major and of justice, his book, Zuckerman on Civil the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher minor, the curriculum has been overseen Procedure, is the foremost scholarly work Education (QAA) under the UK Visas and advocated by Professor Sir Partha on the subject. He contributed to Lord and Immigration’s Tier 4 sponsorship Dasgupta, BSc (Delhi), BA, MA, PhD Woolf’s inquiry into access to justice in requirements. See qaa.ac.uk/educational- (Cantab), FBA, FAAAS, who has the rare 1995, and to Lord Justice Jackson’s Review oversight for more information. distinction of being a Fellow of both the of Civil Litigation Costs 2010. The New College of the Humanities British Academy and the Royal Society In the case of the Philosophy major undergraduate degree programmes have and a Foreign Associate of the US National and minor, the curriculum has been been validated by Southampton Solent Academy of Sciences. Sir Partha has overseen and advocated by Professor A University as being of an appropriate taught at the London School of Economics C Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA, standard and quality and will lead to the and Political Science (LSE), the University Master of New College of the Humanities, Southampton Solent University awards of of Cambridge and the University of Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s the BA (Hons) and the BSc (Hons). Manchester. College, Oxford, and previously Professor To reflect the greater richness of your In the case of the English major and minor, of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, studies and the additional Core Courses the curriculum has been overseen and University of London. and professional development programme advocated by Professor Sir Christopher In the case of the Politics & International that you study at the College, you will be Ricks BA, MA, BLitt (Oxon), FBA, Warren Relations major and minor, the curriculum awarded the NCH Diploma in addition to Professor of the Humanities and co- has been overseen and advocated by your degree. The diploma sets you apart director of the Editorial Institute at Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, BA, MA from other graduates by marking the Boston University, formerly Professor of (Oxon), FBA, Research Professor at the greater breadth of your education at the English at the universities of Bristol and Institute of Contemporary History, King’s College. The NCH Diploma is a non-credit College London, formerly Professor of bearing award. 73 74 APPLYING

How to apply

Applications to NCH should be made through UCAS. Alternatively, if you are only applying to NCH, then you can apply directly to the College. We accept direct applications on a rolling basis, so you can apply after the UCAS deadline. We assess your candidacy individually, and carefully consider all the elements of your application to determine whether you have the potential to flourish at the College before we make a decision. When you start your application, one of our Admissions Advisers will be appointed as your personal contact to answer any questions you may have. Just follow our simple four-step application process:

01 02 03 04

Choose your Complete your Your interview Your offer degree application Choose your major and Apply to NCH as one Interviews take the form We will let you know minor options for your of your five university of a ‘taster’ tutorial, which informally, within two combined honours degree, choices through UCAS (our enables us to assess if weeks of your interview, if or choose the single institution code is N53). you will flourish in the we are going to make you honours Law LLB. Alternatively, if NCH is your tutorial system, and you an offer. A formal offer pack only university choice, you to ascertain whether you will then be sent to you. can apply to us directly via will enjoy this method of The Admissions team is nchlondon.ac.uk teaching. here to help you through We will ask you for a An interview at NCH is the application process, referee’s name in support your opportunity to shine. so if you would like any of your application. Your It is not intended to be assistance or to discuss referee should be someone intimidating and it is not a your options, please get in who has taught you or can test of your knowledge. touch. liaise with your teachers on your behalf.

For more information on how to apply, go to nchlondon.ac.uk/admissions

75 Dr Naomi Goulder BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

more contact time with 30% academics NCH students benefit from an average of 13.19 high quality contact hours per week with their tutors, versus approximately 10.15 hours per week at Russell Group universities.

76 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Entry requirements

What are we looking for? English language requirements Admissions tutors at NCH understand that a one-off If English is not your native language, you will need to performance in an exam is not always an accurate indicator demonstrate proficiency in English in order to study at of a candidate’s true potential. That is why we don’t just the College. We ask for a score of 7.0 in the IELTS test, with look at exam grades. Instead, we prefer to look at you as a minimum of 6.5 in each of the four components (Listening, an individual and at your potential to thrive at the College. Speaking, Reading and Writing). English language We place utmost importance on interviewing all promising qualifications must have been obtained within two candidates, which offers an opportunity for us to find out years prior to application to NCH. more about you, as well as for you to find out more about EU students who have taken higher level English as part us. The interview is not designed to be a test of what you of their secondary school examinations, or who have know but, rather, how you think – and most candidates been educated entirely in English for a minimum of three thoroughly enjoy the experience. years prior to application, may be exempt from these References are also critical for assessing your potential requirements. to flourish studying our unique liberal arts undergraduate Please note that if you require a Tier 4 visa, you will curriculum. need to complete the UKVI approved IELTS test. As a general guide, most applicants have the potential to achieve AAB and above at A-level, and 36 points and International student visas above in the IB Diploma, or the international equivalents. NCH attracts students from all over the world, and we However, we do not make strict rules about this, and welcome the different perspectives that students from the individual merits and potential of applicants are diverse countries and backgrounds can bring. as important to us as grades. Please note that to study Economics as your major, you must have studied NCH is licensed by the UK government to sponsor and mathematics within the last two years of your secondary assist with your visa application for all of our licensed education. Mathematical Studies within the IB Diploma is programmes. not sufficient. We know that visa applications can be complicated and If you are inspired by the idea of studying our award- daunting, so we have a dedicated team of advisers at the winning undergraduate programmes, and you have a College who are on-hand to help you through the visa passion for your subject and for learning, we strongly process. encourage you to apply to us. Nationals of the EU and EEA, as well as Switzerland, do not require a visa to study in the UK. Watch Professor A C Grayling talking about the NCH interview process at nchlondon.ac.uk/videos

77 Fees

Tuition fees for ‘home’ students The tuition fees for the 2018/19 academic year are £9,250 for students from the UK, EU and EEA, including Switzerland. This fee-level will apply to all students holding a UK, EU, EEA or Swiss passport, regardless of their country of residence. Tuition fee loans Students who have resided in the UK, EU, EEA or Switzerland for the three years before starting their first undergraduate degree may be eligible to apply for a tuition fee loan of £6,150 from Student Finance. To determine if you are entitled to a tuition fee loan, please consult the following government agencies, according to your place of residence. Paying your fees ■ Student Finance England (for students from England, the EU, the EEA and Switzerland) Should you receive a tuition fee loan, you will pay the difference between your loan of £6,165 and your total ■ Student Finance NI (for students from tuition fees directly to the College. We recommend that you Northern Ireland) pay this monthly, by direct debit to help you spread the ■ Student Awards Agency Scotland (for students cost of your fees. from Scotland) For most students receiving a tuition fee loan, the monthly Tuition fees for international students payment is £280.45. However, students will receive a The tuition fees for the 2018/19 academic year are £14,000 personal payment plan alongside their offer, which will take for students who require a visa to study in into consideration any scholarship or bursary which would the UK. reduce this amount.

This document is prepared ahead of the academic period to which it relates Fees are reviewed regularly, at least annually, and are subject to increase from time to provide potential applicants with an overview of the programme for which to time but no more than annually. A review of the fees charged will take account of they are applying. As a result, there may be infrequent occasions when the RPI, wage rises and other costs that the College bears to deliver the degree. Only College is unable to offer individual courses within degrees as advertised; on in cases of force majeure will the increase in fees be above RPI +5%. If less than a such occasions, another individual course will be offered which will have equal term’s notice is given of a fee increase greater than RPI +5%, notice of withdrawal academic benefit to the course originally advertised. given within 21 days after notice of the increase was received will not incur a term’s From time to time, individual faculty members may stop teaching at the College; fees in lieu of notice. in such instances, the College will undertake reasonable endeavours to ensure NCH reserves the right to make such alterations and amendments as necessitated that students are taught by another academic with an equal level of qualification, by circumstances. The information this document contains is correct at the date of research interests, and experience. publication. 78 FINANCE

of NCH students believe that their course offers good value for money, Scholarships compared to only 31% NCH offers a select number of highly prestigious 87% of their peers at Russell scholarships to recognise exceptional academic potential Group institutions. and achievements. These awards are worth up to £2,000 per year towards the College’s tuition fees. Our Admissions team automatically consider all applicants for a scholarship award. Maintenance loans Permanent residents of England, and EU nationals who Bursaries have been resident in the UK for five years or more before Applicants from the UK, EU and EEA, who receive an offer their programme starts, can also apply for a maintenance to study at the College, and who would be unable to take loan from Student Loans Company. The amount of loan you up their place without further financial support, can apply receive will vary according to your household income. You to the NCH Trust for a means-tested bursary worth up to can use your loan to pay for accommodation and living £3,085 towards their annual tuition fees. costs such as transportation and food.

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