BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB plus grade 6 in GCSE Mathematics IB: Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a combined-honours degree centred on the academic subject areas of Economics and Politics and International Relations and Philosophy. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Ethics & Professional Practice, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Compulsory modules provide a grounding in all three constituent disciplines, while optional modules cover topics such as climate change, international security, and Chinese politics. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules including Economics Skills and Employability 1, Engaging Political Ideas, Ethics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Principles of Mathematics for Economics, Principles of Statistics for Economics, and Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity, alongside optional modules like Foundations of Modern Politics and Philosophy of Race. The second year continues with core study in Economics Skills and Employability 2, Macroeconomic Policy, Microeconomics of Public Policy, and Rationality, Preference, Wellbeing, and Fairness: Concepts in the Philosophy of Politics and Economics, complemented by optional choices such as Applied Econometrics and Political Philosophy. The final year involves professional preparation through Economics Skills and Employability 3, alongside various optional advanced studies and independent dissertation routes.
Modules
- Economics Skills and Employability 1
- Engaging Political Ideas
- Ethics
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Principles of Mathematics for Economics
- Principles of Statistics for Economics
- Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity
- A (Dis) United Kingdom? An introduction to British Politics
- Foundations of Modern Politics
- Global Dilemmas: Reading Contemporary Politics
- Introduction to International Relations
- Philosophy of Race
- ECON Dissertation: Prelim Info
- Economics Skills and Employability 2
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Microeconomics of Public Policy
- Rationality, Preference, Wellbeing, and Fairness: Concepts in the Philosophy of Politics and Economics
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Animal Ethics, Animal Minds
- Applied Econometrics
- Applied Economics
- Children and Human Rights
- Chinese Politics
- Cognitive Psychology in Education
- Comparative Party Politics
- Contemporary Theories of Justice
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Democratic Theory
- Development Economics
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence
- Ethics of Global Poverty
- Ethics of War
- European Power and the Geopolitics of Europe and Asia
- Games
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Global Justice: Poverty, Inequality and the Environment
- Global Sustainability Challenges
- Globalisation and World Politics
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Industrial Economics
- Introduction to Econometrics
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Philosophy
- Migration, Borders, Refuge: Political Ethics in an Age of Mobility
- Mind and World in the History of Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Partisans, Public Opinion and Elections: Understanding the Political Mind
- Philosophy of Race
- Philosophy of Religion
- Political Philosophy
- Political Thinking
- Public Opinion in Action: What we know and how we know it
- Qualitative Research in Politics & International Relations
- Reason and Argument
- Reinventing Democracy: Innovation, Participation and Power
- Self and Agency in the History of Philosophy
- Self, society, nature, and normativity
- The Government Lab
- The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness
- The Struggle for Democracy
- Theorising International Politics
- Economics Skills and Employability 3
- Applied Economics
- Business, Morality, and Markets
- Children and Human Rights
- Chinese Politics
- Choice and Decision
- Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Classical Indian Philosophy: Self, Knowledge, and Liberation
- Comparative Party Politics
- Contemporary Theories of Justice
- Crime and Punishment
- Democratic Theory
- Dissertation in Politics & International Relations
- Dissertation: Literature Review
- Dissertation: Policy Project
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Empirical Finance
- Ethics of War
- European Power and the Geopolitics of Europe and Asia
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Global Justice: Poverty, Inequality and the Environment
- Globalisation and World Politics
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Happiness and Wellbeing
- International Macroeconomics
- International Trade
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Islamic Philosophy
- Labour Economics
- Migration, Borders, Refuge: Political Ethics in an Age of Mobility
- Partisans, Public Opinion and Elections: Understanding the Political Mind
- Philosophical Pessimism
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Philosophy and Ethics in Psychology and AI
- Philosophy of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
- Political Philosophy
- Public Economics
- Public Opinion in Action: What we know and how we know it
- Reinventing Democracy: Innovation, Participation and Power
- The Ethics of Belief: Evidence, Truth, and Ideology
- The Ethics of Climate Change
- The Government Lab
- Theories of Law and Justice
- Topics in Macroeconomics
- Topics in Political Economy