Policy, Politics and Economics BA with Year Abroad

Modules in the first year

The compulsory modules in the first year are designed to provide students with a grounding in all three disciplines of Social Policy, Politics and Economics.

• Introduction to Social Policy
• Understanding Politics
• Principles of Economics
• Social Research I Part I (PPE)
• Social Research I Part 2 (PPE)

Choose one of the following

• Introduction to Mathematics for Economics
• Advanced Mathematics for Economics (for students with A-Level Maths at A/A*)

Optional modules:

• Introduction to International Relations
• Introduction to Political Economy

Core modules

• Global Issues: Perspectives from Policy, Politics and Economics
• Social Research II
• Analysing Political Worlds

OR

• Comparative Politics

You must also choose one these modules:

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics

Optional modules

You must choose a further 40 credits from any of the three disciplines:

• Policy Analysis
• Managing Health and Social Care
• Housing and Communities
• Comparative Social Policy
• Comparative European Politics
• Poverty, Class and Inequality
• Terror, Threat and Security
• Macroeconomics A (if not already taken as compulsory subject)
• Microeconomics A (if not already taken as compulsory subject)
• Development Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Soviet Politics: Rise and Fall of a Superpower
• British Politics
• Contemporary Issues in the UK Economy
• International Political Economy
• War and Peace in Theory and Practice
• Behavioural and Experimental Economics
• International Security
• Financial Markets and Institutions

Your third year will be spent abroad at a university in the EU or elsewhere in the world. After completing your year abroad, you will return for your fourth and final year to the same BA degree programme. There are a wide range of countries and universities from which you can choose. As well as a range of European universities, you may also choose from a range of current institutional partners worldwide. These include countries in which a variety of languages are spoken, including universities at which courses are taught in English.

The following 120 credit module must be taken

• Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Year Abroad

• Dissertation

Optional modules

Select 20 credits from each discipline and a further 20 credits from across the range of modules:

Social Policy

• Doing or Not Doing God? Religion, Policy and Politics
• New Migration and Super-Diversity
• Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
• Prospects for Social Policy
• From Beveridge to May: The Political History of the Welfare State From the Second World War to the Present Day
• Political Sociology
• Quantitative Data Analysis I
• Quantitative Data Analysis II
• Technology and Society

Economics

• International and European Monetary Issues
• Economic Policy and Political Economy
• History of Economic Thought
• Economics of Financial Markets
• Health Economics
• Monetary Policy
• Open Economy Macroeconomics
• Behavioural and Experimental Economics
• International Trade Theory
• International Trade Policy
• Economics of the European Union

Politics

• Gender in World Politics
• Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Models
• Parliamentary Studies
• Law, Politics and the International System: Mediating Power beyond the State
• New Media, Social Media, and International Politics
• Contemporary International Political Economy
• Contemporary Political Theory
• The Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Professional Development
• Power in Britain
• Contemporary US Foreign and Security Policy
• Topics in British Politics

Please note: The modules listed on the website for this programme are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this programme are for students starting in 2020. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to compulsory modules; in this event we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.