Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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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-1 |
US Foreign Policy | POLI30017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Secrecy, Power, Politics | POLI30033 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
How to Win a Political Argument | POLI30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Politics of Gender | POLI31351 | 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-2 |
Critical Security Studies | POLI31384 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Dissertation | POLI31555 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
States and Markets | POLI31559 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy | POLI30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of the Contemporary Labour Party | POLI30024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Human Rights | POLI30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Power, Politics and Food | POLI30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Gender and Security | POLI30032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America | POLI30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Apocalypse or Ecotopia? | POLI30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Politics of Rebellion | POLI30038 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Populism | POLI30039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Philosopher Queens | POLI30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Students select either three Social Policy units (60 credits), or the Dissertation unit SPOL30017 (40 credits) and one unit (20 credits) from the list below: | ||||
Students who wish to take the Dissertation unit in the final year must have selected SOAD20004 Social Research Methods or POLI20019 Investigating the Political in Year 2. | ||||
Dissertation (Social Policy) | SPOL30017 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Migration: UK, EU and Global Policy Perspectives | SPOL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Housing and home: political economy, inequality and rights | SPOL30081 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Cities and communities in the urban age | SPOL30062 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Climate Emergency | SPOL30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Disability in Society | SPOL30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Inequalities in Health, Poverty and Development | SPOL31021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Sex Power and Consumption | SPOL30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Gender based Violence | SPOL30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Quantitative Data Analysis for Policy Research | SPOL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
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 |
Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Social Policy and Politics (BSc) | 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).
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.
Students who wish to take the Social Policy Dissertation unit in the final year must select SOAD20004 or or POLI20019 in Year 2.