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Degree Programme Table: Politics, Philosophy and Economics MA (Hons) (UTMAHPOPPE1F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Politics and International Relations 1A: Concepts and Debates

Must be passed

PLIT08017 20 credits
Political Thinkers

Must be passed

PLIT08011 20 credits
Economics 1

Must be passed

ECNM08013 40 credits
Morality and Value

Must be passed

PHIL08015 20 credits

Course options

PPE - Philosophy Year 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Logic 1
PHIL08004 20 credits
Introduction to the History of Philosophy
PHIL08018 20 credits

Year 2 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students must obtain an average of 50% at first sitting across their required courses in Philosophy (Mind, Matter and Language and Knowledge and Reality)

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed

PHIL08014 20 credits
Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed

PHIL08017 20 credits
Economics 2

Must be passed

ECNM08006 40 credits
International Political Economy

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

PLIT08020 20 credits
Statistical Methods for Economics

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ECNM08016 20 credits

Year 3 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Notes:

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

Course options

Politics Year 3 Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering taking the Politics Dissertation in Year 4 are strongly recommended to take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations (20 credits) in Year 3.
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
Children's Rights: Policy and Practice
EDUA10204 20 credits
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision
IMES10072 20 credits
Gender and Media in the Arab World
IMES10085 20 credits
Law and Power in the Muslim World
IMES10105 20 credits
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia
IMES10106 20 credits
Regional Perspectives in a Globalised Muslim World
IMES10107 20 credits
International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World
IMES10108 20 credits
Muslim Africa in Global Perspective
IMES10109 20 credits
Africa in World Politics
PLIT10003 20 credits
International Political Economy
PLIT10018 20 credits
War and Justice
PLIT10021 20 credits
Politics of the Middle East
PLIT10036 20 credits
Global Justice and Citizenship
PLIT10054 20 credits
Europe and International Migration
PLIT10068 20 credits
Comparing Scottish Devolution
PLIT10080 20 credits
Understanding Indian Politics
PLIT10088 20 credits
Parliamentary Studies
PLIT10091 20 credits
Political Work
PLIT10093 20 credits
International Politics of Money
PLIT10095 20 credits
Democracy and its Discontents
PLIT10096 20 credits
Public participation in democracy and governance
PLIT10098 20 credits
Public Policy: Agenda-Setting
PLIT10100 20 credits
Neuropolitics
PLIT10101 20 credits
British Government
PLIT10103 20 credits
Research Design in Politics and International Relations
PLIT10106 20 credits
Critical Theory and Cinema
PLIT10108 20 credits
International Relations of the Asia Pacific
PLIT10109 20 credits
Gender, Power and Representation
PLIT10113 20 credits
The Politics of the UK Constitution
PLIT10119 20 credits
Strategic Studies and its Critics
PLIT10120 20 credits
Political Economy of Latin America
PLIT10121 20 credits
The Middle Eastern State: Histories and Theories
PLIT10124 20 credits
Law, Violence, and Humanity
PLIT10125 20 credits
Social Movements and Collective Action in the Middle East
PLIT10128 20 credits
Gender, Peace and Security
PLIT10130 20 credits
Political Behaviour: Opinions, Choices and Movements
PLIT10132 20 credits
Technology, Politics and Government
PLIT10133 20 credits
Comparative Politics of Secession
PLIT10134 20 credits
Environmental Politics
PLIT10136 20 credits
Perspectives on Digital Capitalism
PLIT10138 20 credits
Democracy and contemporary capitalism
PLIT10139 20 credits
Chinese Politics
PLIT10140 20 credits
The Persian Gulf in International Relations
PLIT10142 20 credits
Media and Protest
PLIT10143 20 credits
Europe in the World
PLIT10146 20 credits
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
PLIT10147 20 credits
Politics and Public Policy
PLIT10150 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Global Security
PLIT10151 20 credits
Bargaining and Negotiation in International Relations
PLIT10153 20 credits
Foundations in Global Security
PLIT10154 20 credits
Model United Nations
PLIT10155 20 credits
Chinese Foreign Policy
PLIT10156 20 credits
Eastminster: Decolonisation and State-Building in Asia
PLIT10157 20 credits
Designing and Doing Social Research
SCIL10062 20 credits
Doing Survey Research
SCIL10063 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
Globalization
SCIL10067 20 credits
Gender, Marginality and Social Change
SCIL10073 20 credits
Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy
SCPL10024 20 credits
Screening Social Policy
SCPL10042 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 3 (Joint)

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering taking the Philosophy Dissertation in Year 4 are required to take the PHIL10151 Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course (0 credits) in Year 3.
Philosophy of Language
PHIL10005 20 credits
Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10007 20 credits
Applied Ethics
PHIL10017 20 credits
Themes in Epistemology
PHIL10072 20 credits
Normative theory
PHIL10078 20 credits
The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz
PHIL10086 20 credits
Political Philosophy
PHIL10093 20 credits
Aesthetics
PHIL10117 20 credits
Social Cognition
PHIL10131 20 credits
Philosophy of Well-Being
PHIL10152 20 credits
Metaphysics
PHIL10155 20 credits
Logic 2: Modal Logics
PHIL10162 20 credits
Science, Nature, and Social Values
PHIL10171 20 credits
Topics in Mind and Cognition
PHIL10174 20 credits
Late Modern Philosophy
PHIL10175 20 credits
Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10181 20 credits
Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10182 20 credits
Philosophy, Science and Policy
PHIL10208 20 credits
Moral Philosophy
PHIL10213 20 credits
Feminist Philosophy
PHIL10214 20 credits
Japanese Philosophy
PHIL10222 20 credits
Continental Philosophy
PHIL10223 20 credits
Philosophy of Time
PHIL10225 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 1

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Topics in Macroeconomics
ECNM10069 20 credits
Topics in Microeconomics
ECNM10070 20 credits
OR

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 2

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Essentials of Econometrics
ECNM10052 20 credits
Topics in Microeconomics
ECNM10070 20 credits
OR

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 3

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Essentials of Econometrics
ECNM10052 20 credits
Applications of Econometrics
ECNM10056 20 credits
OR

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 4

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Essentials of Econometrics
ECNM10052 20 credits
Topics in Macroeconomics
ECNM10069 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Notes:
Dissertation in Politics or Philosophy or Economics (40 credits)

80 credits of level 10 options in the chosen pair of subjects (Politics and Economics, Politics and Philosophy, or Philosophy and Economics), but with a maximum of 60 credits from one subject area.

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

Course options

PPE Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students wishing to take the Philosophy Dissertation are required to have taken the PHIL10151 Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course (0 credits) in Year 3.

Students wishing to take the Politics Dissertation are strongly recommended to take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations (20 credits) if they did not already do so in Year 3.
Economics Honours Dissertation
ECNM10030 40 credits
Dissertation in Philosophy
PHIL10026 40 credits
Dissertation (MA Politics)
PLIT10030 40 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Politics Year 4 Electives

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
Children's Rights: Policy and Practice
EDUA10204 20 credits
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision
IMES10072 20 credits
Gender and Media in the Arab World
IMES10085 20 credits
Law and Power in the Muslim World
IMES10105 20 credits
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia
IMES10106 20 credits
Regional Perspectives in a Globalised Muslim World
IMES10107 20 credits
International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World
IMES10108 20 credits
Muslim Africa in Global Perspective
IMES10109 20 credits
Africa in World Politics
PLIT10003 20 credits
International Political Economy
PLIT10018 20 credits
War and Justice
PLIT10021 20 credits
Politics of the Middle East
PLIT10036 20 credits
Global Justice and Citizenship
PLIT10054 20 credits
Europe and International Migration
PLIT10068 20 credits
Comparing Scottish Devolution
PLIT10080 20 credits
Understanding Indian Politics
PLIT10088 20 credits
Parliamentary Studies
PLIT10091 20 credits
Political Work
PLIT10093 20 credits
International Politics of Money
PLIT10095 20 credits
Democracy and its Discontents
PLIT10096 20 credits
Public participation in democracy and governance
PLIT10098 20 credits
Public Policy: Agenda-Setting
PLIT10100 20 credits
Neuropolitics
PLIT10101 20 credits
British Government
PLIT10103 20 credits
Research Design in Politics and International Relations
PLIT10106 20 credits
Critical Theory and Cinema
PLIT10108 20 credits
International Relations of the Asia Pacific
PLIT10109 20 credits
Gender, Power and Representation
PLIT10113 20 credits
The Politics of the UK Constitution
PLIT10119 20 credits
Strategic Studies and its Critics
PLIT10120 20 credits
Political Economy of Latin America
PLIT10121 20 credits
The Middle Eastern State: Histories and Theories
PLIT10124 20 credits
Law, Violence, and Humanity
PLIT10125 20 credits
Social Movements and Collective Action in the Middle East
PLIT10128 20 credits
Gender, Peace and Security
PLIT10130 20 credits
Political Behaviour: Opinions, Choices and Movements
PLIT10132 20 credits
Technology, Politics and Government
PLIT10133 20 credits
Comparative Politics of Secession
PLIT10134 20 credits
Environmental Politics
PLIT10136 20 credits
Perspectives on Digital Capitalism
PLIT10138 20 credits
Democracy and contemporary capitalism
PLIT10139 20 credits
Chinese Politics
PLIT10140 20 credits
The Persian Gulf in International Relations
PLIT10142 20 credits
Media and Protest
PLIT10143 20 credits
Europe in the World
PLIT10146 20 credits
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
PLIT10147 20 credits
Politics and Public Policy
PLIT10150 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Global Security
PLIT10151 20 credits
Bargaining and Negotiation in International Relations
PLIT10153 20 credits
Foundations in Global Security
PLIT10154 20 credits
Model United Nations
PLIT10155 20 credits
Chinese Foreign Policy
PLIT10156 20 credits
Eastminster: Decolonisation and State-Building in Asia
PLIT10157 20 credits
Designing and Doing Social Research
SCIL10062 20 credits
Doing Survey Research
SCIL10063 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
Globalization
SCIL10067 20 credits
Gender, Marginality and Social Change
SCIL10073 20 credits
Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy
SCPL10024 20 credits
Screening Social Policy
SCPL10042 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
PHIL10014 20 credits
Meta-Ethics
PHIL10019 20 credits
Theories of Mind (Philosophy Hons)
PHIL10024 20 credits
Philosophy and the Environment
PHIL10064 20 credits
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHIL10090 20 credits
Ancient Theories of Mind
PHIL10103 20 credits
Philosophy of Time Travel
PHIL10125 20 credits
Aristotle
PHIL10130 20 credits
Realism, relativism, and reality
PHIL10138 20 credits
Belief, Desire and Rational Choice
PHIL10159 20 credits
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
PHIL10161 20 credits
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL10167 20 credits
Chinese Philosophy
PHIL10179 20 credits
Philosophy of Information
PHIL10186 20 credits
John Locke
PHIL10189 20 credits
Ethics of Work and Labour
PHIL10190 20 credits
Philosophy of Death and Dying
PHIL10192 20 credits
Philosophy of Friendship
PHIL10195 20 credits
Islamic Philosophy
PHIL10197 20 credits
Philosophy of Social Science
PHIL10201 20 credits
Philosophy of Action
PHIL10209 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy
PHIL10210 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Philosophy
PHIL10211 20 credits
Studies in Africana Philosophy: Debates within Black Intellectual History from the 1800-1920
PHIL10215 20 credits
Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism
PHIL10216 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10217 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy
PHIL10218 20 credits
Philosophy of Risk
PHIL10219 20 credits
Philosophical Naturalism
PHIL10220 20 credits
Philosophy of Virtual Worlds
PHIL10221 20 credits
Phenomenology
PHIL10224 20 credits
AND

Economics Course Options Year 4 (single and with programmes)

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
ECNM10022 20 credits
Development Economics
ECNM10061 20 credits
Behavioural Economics
ECNM10066 20 credits
Economics of Sport
ECNM10068 20 credits
Economics of Inequality
ECNM10081 20 credits
Economics of Asymmetric Information
ECNM10083 20 credits
Advanced Mathematical Economics
ECNM10085 20 credits
The Economics of Cities and Regions
ECNM10086 20 credits
International Economics
ECNM10087 20 credits
Experimental Economics
ECNM10090 20 credits
Key Developments in Modern Economic Analysis
ECNM10096 20 credits
History of Monetary, Capital and Interest Theories
ECNM10098 20 credits
Unemployment and Labour Market Dynamics
ECNM10100 20 credits
Economics of Organisations
ECNM10101 20 credits
Structural Transformation in the Labour Market
ECNM10102 20 credits
The Economics of Sorting
ECNM10103 20 credits
Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Inequality
ECNM10104 20 credits
Programming for Economics
ECNM10106 20 credits
Firms, Markets, and Competition
ECNM10107 20 credits
Applied Financial Econometrics
ECNM10108 20 credits
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