Programme structure: Social Policy and Politics (BSc) - what's running in 2019/20

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Students must choose 60 credit points from the following units:
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues	POLI30001	20	Optional	TB-2
Justice between generations	POLI30005	20	Optional	TB-2
The Political Economy of China	POLI30009	20	Optional	TB-1
European Foreign Policy	POLI30014	20	Optional	TB-2
The Holocaust - History and Legacy	POLI30016	20	Optional	TB-2
US Foreign Policy	POLI30017	20	Optional	TB-2
Secrecy, Power, Politics	POLI30033	20	Optional	TB-2
Ethnic Politics	POLI30019	20	Optional	TB-2
How to Win a Political Argument	POLI30020	20	Optional	TB-1
The Contemporary British Parliament	POLI31336	20	Optional	TB-1
The Politics of Gender	POLI31351	20	Optional	TB-2
Post-Modern Political Theories	POLI31367	20	Optional	TB-2
Popular Culture and World Politics	POLI31378	20	Optional	TB-1
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa	POLI31381	20	Optional	TB-1
Critical Security Studies	POLI31384	20	Optional	TB-1
Dissertation	POLI31555	40	Optional	TB-4
Politics of the Environment	POLI31556	20	Optional	TB-1
Peacebuilding: Theory and Practice	POLI31557	20	Optional	TB-1
States and Markets	POLI31559	20	Optional	TB-1
Public Opinion and Democracy	SOCI30072	20	Optional	TB-2
Religion and Politics in the West	SOCI30074	20	Optional	TB-2
Risk, Danger and Disaster	SOCI30098	20	Optional	TB-1
Political Corruption	POLI30022	20	Optional	TB-1
Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy	POLI30023	20	Optional	TB-1
The Politics of the Contemporary Labour Party	POLI30024	20	Optional	TB-2
The Politics of Human Rights	POLI30026	20	Optional	TB-1
The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa	POLI30030	20	Optional	TB-2
Populism and Politics in India	POLI30035	20	Optional	TB-1
Gender and Security	POLI30032	20	Optional	TB-1
Students select 60 credit points by choosing either three 20 credit units, or the 40 credit point Dissertation unit SPOL30017 plus one 20 credit point unit, from the list below. Not all units are offered in each session.
Dissertation (Social Policy)	SPOL30017	40	Optional	TB-4
Migration: UK, EU and Global Policy Perspectives	SPOL30069	20	Optional	TB-2
Comparative Political Economy and Social Policy	SPOL30067	20	Optional	TB-1
Social Policy and Development	SPOL30050	20	Optional	TB-2
Drugs and Society	SPOL30011	20	Optional	TB-1
Punishment in Society	SPOL30052	20	Optional	TB-2
Social Care in Crisis	SPOL30070	20	Optional	TB-1
Societal Change and the Transformation of Work	SPOL32025	20	Optional	TB-2
Changing Families and the State	SPOL31008	20	Optional	TB-1
Cities and communities in the urban age	SPOL30062	20	Optional	TB-2
Students who were abroad in the second year and so did not take all mandatory second year units must include appropriately from:
Understanding Public Policy	SPOL20026	20	Optional	TB-1
Social Policy and Politics (BSc)		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

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.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

• To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
• To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

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).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.

The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

Additional progress information

Students who wish to take the Social Policy Dissertation unit in the final year must select SOAD20004 in Year 2.

Most Social Policy optional units are approved at, and available at, both level I/5 and level H/6. The title of each unit is the same. Optional units are usually a run in alternate years so that each student will have the opportunity to choose to study that title at one or other level. In the event that a title is run in two successive years, a student may not select it in both years. So, for example, a student who has taken SPOL21008 Changing Families and the State, may not select SPOL31008 Changing Families and the State, even if it is available in their third year.