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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2019/2020

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Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

Notes:
After enrolling on your courses, please be sure to meet with your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Social Policy Pre-Honours

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W


Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students who have passed 240 credits and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year degree courses are entitled to progress to honours.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Students considering a transfer to single Honours in Politics must take 'Introduction to Political Data Analysis'.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Social Policy Pre-Honours

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W


Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Students may substitute Health Policy Analysis and Globalisation and Public Health for one 20 credit Social Policy Honours course.

If considering taking the Politics dissertation, students are strongly recommended to take 'Research Design in Politics and International Relations'.

Students are not required and not allowed to take Doing Survey Research if they have already taken and passed Introduction to Statistics for Social Science or Introduction to Political Data Analysis.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Social Policy Honours Electives

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Politics Year 3 Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

4TH YEAR DISSERTATIONS SOCIAL POLICY OR POLITICS Social Policy and Politics (MA)-Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Politics Year 3 Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Social Policy Honours Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses

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