DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory courses, totaling 100 credits.

You must pass Politics and International Relations 1A and 1B to progress to Year 2 of the programme.

For your optional 20 credits you can choose between Philosophy of Science 1, an 'outside' course from across the University, or a 'Challenge' course.

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory courses, totaling 80 credits.

Progression to Honours (Year 3) requires:
- An average of 50% across both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt
- A pass of 40% or above in both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt.
- A pass of 40% or above in Comparative Politics in a Globalized World and Political Thinkers.

Students intending to transfer to single honours Politics MUST take Introduction to Political Data Analysis (PLIT08009) and achieve a pass of 40% or above.

For your optional 40 credits you may take either:
- 40 credits in any combination from Philosophy of Science 1, Introduction to the History of Philosophy B, 'outside' courses, and 1 'Challenge' course (Group A)
- 40 credits of Year 2 optional Politics courses (Group B)

You will automatically be enroled in:
- Philosophy Dissertation Information Course (0 credits). This is required to take a dissertation in Philosophy in Year 4, but does not preclude taking a Maths project.

If you are considering a Politics Dissertation you must take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations (20 credits) in Year 3 or Year 4. This is a pre/co-requisite to the Politics Dissertation course.

You will then need to take the following:

- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 3/4 Politics and International Relations courses
- 40-80 credits (2-4 courses) of Year 3 Philosophy courses from any group

You can either split your credits evenly - 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 in Politics, or opt for an 80-40 split, with 80 credits in one subject and 40 in the other. In both cases, you must take 120 credits in total.

You will need to take:

- a 40-credit Politics Dissertation, an independent Philosophy dissertation, or two Philosophy coursework dissertations (2x 20 credit courses) (Group A)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 4 Philosophy courses (Group B)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 3/4 Politics and International Relations courses (Group B)