It’s 9 pm. Earlier this evening, I tapau-ed a macchiato in my trusty SPF hot water flask (it was an ORD gift!) from Pret St Martin’s Lane — my favourite late-night (i.e., open till 11 pm every day) Pret in London. I’ve now settled into a cosy chair in the Round Reading Room of the Maughan Library. Love the wooden tables here; compared to the plastic and metal ones elsewhere in the library, they feel storied and amiable.
What a Sunday on which to write this short piece! I just submitted my 4SSPP103 Comparing Political Systems essay (40% of overall grade) on Thursday afternoon. The essay question was on the relationship between globalisation and voting behaviour. After analysing longitudinal data from 18 Asia-Pacific countries, I concluded that globalisation causes voters to swing rightwards because vulnerability is the flip side of connectivity. I spent Friday and Saturday tying up as many stressful loose ends (STRAND magazine and Photovoice SG) as I could. 😩 Thankfully, today has been restful. Still, I’m gearing up for my Economics final exam on Thursday.
Year 1 went quite well. I travelled to Málaga, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Venice, Milan and Paris. I was unsuccessful in two competitions — the 8th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and the KCL Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize — but c’est la vie.
I’m really excited about my Year 2 module choices. As planned since JC, I will be focusing on value theory. (Yes, I will be ditching Economics and taking the BA, not BSc, route.) This is because interpersonal, international and intercultural misjudgment and conflict have played out on the axiological arena since time immemorial. King’s College London allows us to take up to two modules from other departments per year, so why not further liberal-artsify my already quite liberal-artsy Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) degree? I hope I get all my choices! ∎
Module
Code |
Name |
Convenor |
Type |
Period |
Discipline |
5SSPP219 |
Key Concepts
in Philosophy, Politics and Economics |
Dr Roberto
Fumagalli & Dr Marta Wojciechowska |
Compulsory |
Semester 1 |
PPE Interdisciplinary
Module |
5SSPP202 |
History of
Western Political Thought |
Dr Paul Sagar |
Optional |
Semester 1 |
Political Science |
5AANA005 |
Ethics IIA |
Prof David
Owens |
Optional |
Semester 1 |
Philosophy |
5AANA014 |
Philosophical
Logic |
Dr Julien
Dutant |
Optional |
Semester 1 |
Philosophy |
5AANB016 |
Intermediate
Logic |
Dr Carlo
Nicolai |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Philosophy |
5SSPP227 |
Game Theory
and Strategic Decision-Making |
Prof Paul
Lewis |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Economics |
5SSPP238 |
Contemporary
Issues in Political Theory |
Dr Paul Sagar |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Political
Science |
5SSG2056 |
Urban and
Cultural Geography |
Dr Johan
Andersson |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Geography (External) |
5AANB006 |
Ethics IIB |
to be confirmed |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Philosophy
(Backup) |
5AANA009 |
Epistemology
II |
Dr Julien
Dutant |
Optional |
Semester 2 |
Philosophy
(Backup) |
5AANB053 |
Philosophy of
Physics 1 |
Dr Alexander
Franklin |
Optional |
Semester 1 |
Philosophy
(Backup) |
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