| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students must select 20 credit points from the following list: | ||||
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| and select 40 credit points from the following list: | ||||
| Health Policy in a Global Context (SPS) | SPOL20061 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| International Political Economy and Social Policy | SPOL20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Social Care in Crisis | SPOL20047 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL20052 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Youth Policy and Social Welfare | SPOL22022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Work and Work Placements: Social Policy | SPOL20042 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL20050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Youth, Sexualities and Gendered Violence | SPOL22023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Harms of the Powerful | SPOL20034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Criminalising Welfare | SPOL20043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| 60 credit points from: | ||||
| Rational Choice | POLI21203 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Development Studies | POLI21213 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Co-operation and Integration In Europe | POLI21214 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Modern British Government and Politics | POLI20014 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Democracy and US Government | POLI21226 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa | POLI21231 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Principles of Quantitative Social Science | SOCI20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data | POLI20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Contemporary Political Theory | POLI22202 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Contemporary International Relations | POLI20002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia | POLI29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| NGO Development & Practice | POLI20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Understanding Genocide | POLI20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Russian Politics | POLI20006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| The History of Western Political Thought | POLI20007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia | POLI20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Global Justice | POLI20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Governing Through Insecurity: Institutions and Issues in Contemporary Security Governance | POLI20013 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Investigating Society (Politics) | POLI20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| New Developments in International Relations Theory | POLI20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| State and Non-State Violence in Latin America | POLI20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Politics of the Environment | POLI20018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Diploma of Higher Education | 120 | |||
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
Students who wish to take the Social Policy Dissertation unit in the final year must select SOAD20004 or or POLI20019 in Year 2.
Students who spend part of this year abroad, and so miss one of the mandatory Social Policy units will be expected either to select an appropriate replacement unit as part of their study abroad, or to take the corresponding third year unit in the following year.
Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
For further information and a definition of must pass units and conditional progression please see the Glossary of Terms.
