DPT: Social Policy and Economics (MA Hons) (UTSOPEC)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Social Policy and Society

Must be passed

Politics of the Welfare State

Must be passed

Economics 1

Must be passed

Course options

Understanding Public Policy

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

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

Compulsory courses

Economics 2

Must be passed

Statistical Methods for Economics

Must be passed

Comparative Social Policy: Global Perspectives

Must be passed

Research Skills for Social Policy

Must be passed

Evidence, Economy, and Social Policy

Must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

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

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy (SCPL10040) must be taken in Year 3 or Year 4 by students planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy.

Year 3 students on a Junior Year Abroad planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy must find an approved equivalent to SCPL10040 (Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy), confirmed on their Learning Agreement by the Social Policy International Exchange Coordinator. Where no equivalent is available, they will be required to take the course in Year 4 upon their return.

Compulsory courses

Essentials of Econometrics

Topics in Microeconomics

Analysing and communicating Social Policy

Course options

Doing Survey Research

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy

AND

Applications of Econometrics

Topics in Macroeconomics

AND

Children's Rights: Policy and Practice

Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy

Global Politics of Public Health

Europe and International Migration

Gender, Power and Representation

The Politics of the UK Constitution

Democracy and contemporary capitalism

Politics and communication of environmental risks

The Politics of Economic Expertise

Doing Survey Research

Social Demography

Population Health and Health Policy

Health Systems: Strengthening and Reform

Health Systems Analysis

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy

Screening Social Policy

Race, Power, and Social Policy

Understanding sustainable welfare and eco-social policy

Domestic Violence: Concepts, Research and Policy

Advocacy, Lobbying and the Politics of Planetary Health

Drug Policy and the Public Good

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy (SCPL10040) must be taken in Year 3 or Year 4 by students planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy.

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