History students are encouraged to select from a wide range of modules, in geographical as well as chronological terms, with modules on the history of Continental Europe, Asia and North America, and on European expansion overseas, as well as on Ireland and Great Britain; within these areas, there are modules dealing with diplomacy and high politics, with economic change, and with social and cultural history, including modules in women�s history; philosophy is particularly concerned with the following issues: our evidence and reasoning for our beliefs about the world, the relationship between mind and body, the status of such things as God, numbers and matter, the nature of and justification for right and wrong, and how we should argue about the problems which arise in social and political life; students can specialise in a range of areas including analytical philosophy and the historical development of philosophy.