Core Courses All students must complete the following core courses:

Introductory course

PP409 Introductory Teaching for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) (0.0)

Paper 1

PP401 Political Science for Public Policy (0.5)

Paper 2

PP402 Quantitative Methods for Public Policy (0.5)

Paper 3

PP403 Public Management (0.5)

Paper 4

PP404 Economics for Public Policy (0.5)

(OR)

Upon satisfactorily demonstrating prior knowledge of Economics, students may be exempted from PP404 and will be free to take an additional half unit option course subject to the approval of the Programme Director.

Paper 5

PP405 Public Policy Applications (0.5)

Paper 6

PP406 Philosophy for Public Policy (0.5)

Option Courses

Papers 7 & 8

A

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) #

FM473A Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM473W Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM474A Managerial Finance (0.5)

FM474W Managerial Finance (0.5)

GV4F8 Institutions and Global Trade (0.5)

GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)

MG455 Decisions, Biases and Nudges (0.5) #

PP410 Public Economics for Public Policy (0.5) #

PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP411W Political Economy Applications for Public Policy (0.5) #

PP412 Cold War II? Public Policy Implications of US-China Relations in the 2020s (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP413 Growth Diagnostics in Development: Theory and Practice (0.5) #

PP414 Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5)

PP415 Technology, Data Science and Policy (0.5) #

PP416 Beyond the policy cycle: how theory explains practice (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP417A The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5)

PP417W The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5)

PP418 Globalisation and Economic Policy (0.5) #

PP419 Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis (0.5) #

PP423 Anticipatory Policymaking (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP424 Happiness and Public Policy (0.5)

PP425 Strategic Policymaking: Economic Analysis, Narrative Development, Political Feasibility, and Implementation (0.5)

PP426 Public Policy for Blockchains and Digital Assets (0.5) #

PP448 International Political Economy and Development (0.5)

PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

PP454 Development Economics (1.0) #

PP4B4 Dissertation (1.0)

PP4E5 Innovations in the governance of public services delivery (0.5)

PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP4J2 New Institutions of Public Policy: Strategic Philanthropy, Impact Investment and Social Enterprise (0.5)

PP4J4 Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Policies and Programmes (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)

PP4V8 Policy Paper (0.5)

PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)