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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

PPE - Philosophy Year 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

Year 2 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Year 3 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: August

Notes:

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

Course options

Politics and International Relations 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.
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 3 (Joint)

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Progression to Honours requires (1) an *average* of 50% across both the mandatory Philosophy courses standardly taken in the second year, Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R) achieved at the first attempt and (2) a minimum of 40% in each course (MML and K&R) achieved at the first attempt.

Students considering taking the Philosophy Dissertation in Year 4 are required to take the PHIL10228 Philosophy Dissertation Information Course (0 credits) in Year 3.
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 1

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering completing an empirical (data-focussed) Economics Dissertation in Year 4 are advised to take ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics (any combination)
OR

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 2

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering completing an empirical (data-focussed) Economics Dissertation in Year 4 are advised to take ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics (any combination)
OR

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 3

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering completing an empirical (data-focussed) Economics Dissertation in Year 4 are advised to take ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics (any combination)
OR

PPE - Year 3 Economics Combination 4

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students considering completing an empirical (data-focussed) Economics Dissertation in Year 4 are advised to take ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics (any combination)

Year 4 Academic year: 2023/24, 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:
Please take note of the following considerations when selecting a dissertation in each PPE subject area:

Dissertation in Politics

Students wishing to take the Politics Dissertation are strongly recommended to take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations (20 credits) in year 3. If this course was not passed in year 3 (e.g., if a student was on an overseas exchange), this course can also be taken in semester 1 of year 4.

Dissertation in Philosophy

Students taking a Philosophy Dissertation are required to take the PHIL10228 Philosophy Dissertation Information Course (0 credits) in year 3. This course involves developing a research proposal for your final year dissertation it is a zero-credit course but must be passed to write a long-form Philosophy dissertation.

In Philosophy, students can choose to submit two 5000-word essays (a coursework dissertation) in place of a long-form 8,000 word dissertation. If the coursework dissertation option is selected, students must choose two additional 20-credit courses from the Philosophy Year 4 Honours options, and submit a 5,000-word dissertation assignment for each of these. NOTE: these courses replace the 40 credits for the Philosophy Dissertation and do not impact your other year 4 PPE elective course choices.

Dissertation in Economics

Students wishing to complete an empirical (data-focussed) Economics Dissertation are strongly advised to take ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics (20 credits), if they did not already do so in their Year 3 economics pairing, as many dissertation topics in Economics require a grounding in econometric analysis.


AND

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Politics and International Relations Year 4 Electives

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
AND

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Where the dissertation is taken in Philosophy, students can either do a single long 8000-word dissertation, or two 5000-word essays (coursework dissertations). If the two 5000-word essays are selected students should choose two courses from Philosophy Honours programme Collection (Philosophy Honours Year 4), as available.
AND

Economics Course Options Year 4 (single and with programmes)

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses

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