THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

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


Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

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


Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, 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 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.

Courses from School(s) J-F - Government, Policy and Society MA(Hons) - Level(s) 10

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Courses from School(s) J - Government, Policy and Society MA(Hons) - Level(s) 10

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) J-F - Government, Policy and Society MA(Hons) - Level(s) 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Courses from School(s) J - Government, Policy and Society MA(Hons) - Level(s) 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses

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