Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of 2.5 units and a skills course and dissertation as shown. Part-time students may take courses up to the value of two full course units in their first year. Candidates may, subject to the approval of their supervisor, substitute for up to two of the written papers listed under 3 below, any paper which is offered in the MSc, LLM or MA which involves at least 20 weeks of an integrated teaching programme and which counts as one quarter (or one full unit) of the complete MSc programme in which it is offered.
By choosing particular combinations of core courses, students can choose to have the title of a specialised stream added to the title of their degree:
MSc Public Policy and Administration (Comparative); or
MSc Public Policy and Administration (Public Management).
Paper |
Course number and title |
1
|
GV4E9 |
Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration |
2 |
Either
GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change (H)
or
GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H)
or
GV4F4 The Politics of Policy Advice (H) |
3 |
Courses to the value of one unit from the following:
Public Management:
|
|
AC412
|
Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H) |
DV413
|
Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H) |
DV415
|
Global Environmental Governance (H) |
DV427
|
Public Management of Development (H) (n/a 11/12) |
GV483
|
Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H) |
GV4A2
|
Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (H) |
|
GV4E4
|
Public Budgeting and Financial Management (n/a 11/12) |
LL406
|
Introduction to Regulation (H) |
MG402
|
Public Management: A Strategic Approach (H) |
MN419
|
Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling (H) |
PH415
|
Philosophy and Public Policy (H) |
|
Comparative Public Policy and Administration:
|
|
EU421
|
Policy-Making in the European Union (H) |
EU443
|
European Models of Capitalism (H) |
GV403
|
Network Regulation (H) |
GV441
|
States and Markets (H) |
GV477
|
Comparative Public Policy Change (H) |
GV4A5
|
Public Policy Responses to International Migration (H) |
GV4C4
|
Legislative Politics: US (H) (L) * |
GV4C5
|
Politics of Economic Policy (H) (M) |
GV4C6
|
Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H) * |
GV4D4
|
Comparative Politics of Redistribution in Advanced Democracies (H) |
GV4F8
|
Institutions in the Global Economy (H) |
LL407
|
Media and Communication Regulation (H) |
SA405
|
European Social Policy |
SA4F8
|
Behavioural Public Policy (H) |
SA4M1
|
Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) |
|
Another course with the permission of the programme convenor. |
4 |
Either |
|
|
MY451
MY452 |
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (H) or
Applied Regression Analysis (H) |
5 |
GV499
|
Dissertation |
Notes |
|
* Students must not take both GV4C4 and GV4C6. |
