BSc in Politics and Philosophy
Programme Code: UBPOLPH
Department: Government
For all first, second and third year students in 2017/18.
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the BA/BSc degrees (other than four-year BA/BSc degrees)
Paper |
Course number and title | |
See note |
LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things | |
Year 1 | ||
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1 |
Either PH101 Logic | |
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Or PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation | |
2 |
The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy | |
3 |
Introduction to Political Theory | |
4 |
Introduction to Political Science | |
Year 2 | ||
5 |
Any course from the Government list A | |
6 |
Either PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics | |
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Or GV262 Contemporary Political Theory | |
7 |
Either An approved course from the Government list A | |
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Or An approved course taught outside the Departments of Government and Philosophy | |
8 |
Either PH201 Philosophy of Science | |
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Or PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences | |
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Or PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (not available 2017/18) | |
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Or PH220 Scientific Method and Policy (not available 2017/18) | |
Year 3 | ||
9 |
Either Any course from the Government List B | |
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Or GV390 Government Dissertation Option | |
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Or PH399 Dissertation in Philosophy | |
10 |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy | |
11 |
Either Any course from Government List A | |
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Or An approved course taught outside of the Departments of Government and Philosophy if an outside option was not taken as Paper 7. | |
12 |
Either Any course from Government List A | |
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Or Any course from the Philosophy List | |
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Or An approved course taught outside of the Departments of Government and Philosophy | |
Notes |
LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification. | |
Government List A
Public Choice and Politics | |
Politics of Economic Policy | |
Democracy and Democratisation | |
Theories and Problems of Nationalism (not available 2017/18) | |
Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives | |
Research Design in Political Science | |
Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union | |
Contemporary Political Theory | |
Public Policy Analysis | |
Politics and Institutions in Europe |
Government List B
Key Themes in the History of Political Thought | |
Global Public Policy (H) | |
Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Leadership in the Political World (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective | |
British Government | |
Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (not available 2017/18) | |
Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective | |
Empirical Research in Government | |
Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (H) | |
Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (H) | |
The Modern State - Theory and Practice (H) | |
Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (H) | |
Experimental Politics (H) | |
Populism (H) | |
Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
African Political Economy (H) | |
Political Economy of the Developing World | |
Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology |
Philosophy List
Philosophy of Science | |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences | |
Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (not available 2017/18) | |
Philosophy, Morals and Politics | |
Set Theory and Further Logic | |
Scientific Method and Policy (not available 2017/18) | |
Problems in Analytic Philosophy | |
Philosophy and Public Policy | |
Business and Organisational Ethics (H) | |
Genes, Brains and Society (H) | |
Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H) | |
PH229 |
Global Justice (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe (H) | |
Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H) | |
Philosophy of Economics | |
Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H) | |
Jurisprudence (third year only) | |
European Literature and Society | |
Literature and Aspects of Ethics |
Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the undergraduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the undergraduate summary page for future students.
