BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics
About this course
BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, an economics and politics and international relations and philosophy degree exploring how government is constituted, how being and truth are deliberated and how goods, services and peoples are organised. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Financial Analysis, Policy Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The first year covers core foundations through compulsory modules such as Mathematics for Economists, Economic Principles, Basic Quantitative Methods, and Power and Democracy. The second year builds upon this with modules including Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, The Economics of Politics, and Political Philosophy. Optional modules across the programme allow specialisation in areas such as finance, behavioural economics, artificial intelligence, and international politics.
Modules
- Mathematics for Economists
- Economic Principles
- Basic Quantitative Methods
- Power and Democracy
- Knowledge and Reality 1
- Knowledge and Reality 2
- Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
- Philosophy of Morality
- Introduction to Finance
- Introduction to Statistics
- Statistics for Business and Management
- History of Economic Thought
- Introduction to Data Science in Economics
- Introduction to Behavioural Economics
- Personal Finance
- Philosophical Problems 1
- Evidence and Argument 1
- Introduction to Asian Philosophy
- Philosophy of Film
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Politics and Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
- Globalisation of World Politics
- The Challenges of World Politics in the Twenty-First Century
- Classical Political Thought
- Early Modern Political Thought
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- International Politics of the Global South
- The State of the UK: Identifying Marginalised Identities and Addressing Inequalities
- Global Sustainability Policy and Governance
- Population and Society
- Introduction to Social Data
- Data Analysis in Social Science 1
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- The Economics of Politics
- Political Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind 1
- Body and Mind
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophical Research
- Moral Agency in Social Context
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Symbolic Logic
- Philosophy of Science
- Aesthetics
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Philosophy of Law
- The Deep Past, History and Humanity
- Ethics of Emerging Technologies
- Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy
- Plato's Dialogues
- Philosophy of Music
- Philosophy of Games
- Digital Worlds and Social AI
- The Holocaust: Explanation, Understanding and Responsibility
- Cyborg Studies
- Philosophy of Economics
- Policy Issues in the Global Economy
- Economics and Ethics
- Public Finance
- Environmental Economics
- Family Economics and Policy
- Behavioural Insights for Business and Management
- Economics of Diversity and Inclusion
- Islamist Movements: From the Muslim Brothers to the Islamic State
- Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East
- Islamic Law and Society
- Ethnography of the Middle East
- Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel
- Muslims in Britain
- A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014
- Employment Experience
- Contemporary Theories of World Politics
- The Politics of the World Economy
- American Politics
- Security Studies
- Political Thought of Modernity
- Explaining Public Policies
- Introduction to Research Design in Politics and International Relations
- Comparative Electoral Systems
- Environmental Governance
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Research Design in the Social Sciences
- Data Analysis in Social Science 2
- Data Analysis in Social Science 3