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BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Programme Code: UBPHPOLEC

Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Four-year Classification Scheme for BA/BSc degrees for all students from the 2018/19 academic year

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Course code, title (unit value)

Year 1

LSE100

LSE100 is a half unit taken by all students, running across Autumn and Winter Terms in the first year. The course provides one of the marks that is eligible to be included in the calculation of the First Year Average for purposes of classification.

Students will choose ONE of the three half-unit options below:

LSE100A The LSE Course: How can we transform our climate futures? (0.5)

LSE100B The LSE Course: How can we control AI? (0.5)

LSE100C The LSE Course: How can we create a fair society? (0.5)

Paper 1

EITHER

ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) #

and one from:

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) #

MA108 Methods in Calculus and Linear Algebra (0.5)

(OR)

MA100 Mathematical Methods (1.0) #

Paper 2

GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0)

Paper 3

A

PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0)

Paper 4

EC1A3 Microeconomics I (0.5) # and EC1B3 Macroeconomics I (0.5) #

Year 2

Paper 5

If ST107 was taken under Paper 1 then students may select the following:

GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0)

or

EC2C3 Econometrics I (0.5) # and EC2C4 Econometrics II (0.5) #

(OR) If MA100 was taken under Paper 1, then students must select the following:

ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory (1.0) #

Paper 6

GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

Paper 7

EC241 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (0.5) and PH111 Introduction to Logic (0.5)

Paper 8

EC2A3 Microeconomics II (0.5) # and EC2B3 Macroeconomics II (0.5) #

Year 3

Paper 9

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

Government List A

Government List B

Paper 10

PH344 PPE Research Seminar (0.5)

And Courses to the value of 0.5 unit(s) from the following:

PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5)

PH112 Intermediate Logic and Probability (0.5)

PH223 Mind and Metaphysics (0.5)

PH224 Epistemology (0.5)

PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5)

PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5)

PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5)

PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5)

PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5)

PH241 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (0.5)

PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5)

Paper 11

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

Economics Options List

Paper 12

If ST107 was taken under Paper 1, then courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Philosophy Options List

Economics Options List

Government List A

Government List B

(OR) If MA100 and ST102 were taken under Papers 1 and 5, then students must select the following:

EC2C3 Econometrics I (0.5) #

EC2C4 Econometrics II (0.5) #

Year 4

Paper 13

PH341 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications (1.0) #

Paper 14

GV343 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone (0.5) and GV344 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Research Project (0.5)

Paper 15

B

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Philosophy Options List

Economics Options List

Government List B

Paper 16

C D

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Philosophy Options List

Economics Options List

Government List B

(OR) Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Government List A

GV225 Analytical Politics (1.0) #

GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) #

GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0)

GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0)

GV262 Contemporary Political Theory (1.0) #

GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0)

GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0)

Government List B

GV302 Key Themes in Political Thought (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV311 British Government (1.0)

GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV314 Empirical Research in Government (1.0)

GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (0.5) #

GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) #

GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5) # A (suspended 2026/27)

GV320 Populism (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) #

GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) #

GV325 Topics in Political Economy: Applications (0.5) #

GV326 Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory (1.0)

GV327 Governance and Corruption (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV329 Making Democracy Work (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

GV330 Data Science Applications to Politics Research (0.5) #

GV333 Politics of Public Lands (0.5)

GV335 Government and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)

GV336 Latin America: Democracy and Development (0.5)

GV337 Politics, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV338 Politics and Political Economy of India (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV339 Global Change, Regional Responses: The Political Economy of National Development in the Global South (0.5)

GV340 The Art of Power and Political Resistance (0.5) #

GV341 Politics, Gender, and Development (0.5) #

GV345 Resistance and Revolution in the Contemporary World (0.5)

GV346 Global Political Thought (1.0) # C

GV347 Advanced Topics in Political Science A (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV348 Advanced Topics in Political Science B: Political Violence (0.5)

GV349 Central and Eastern Europe: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Nationalism (0.5)

GV362 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

GV390 Government Dissertation Option (1.0) B

GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

GV3L2 The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability (0.5) #

GV3L6 The Political Economy of Inequality (0.5) #

Footnote for Government List B

A: GV319: Can be taken in Year 3 only.

B: GV390: Only Available to students on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics as an option on Government List B. Students on other programmes may only select this course under Paper 12 of their programme regulations.

C: GV346: GV346 cannot be taken if students have already completed GV267

Economics Options List

EC302 Political Economy (1.0) #

EC307 Development Economics (1.0) #

EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0)

EC313 Industrial Economics (1.0) #

EC317 Labour Economics (1.0)

EC321 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) #

EC325 Public Economics (1.0) #

EC328 Economics of Diversity and Discrimination (0.5) #

EC330 Environmental Economics (1.0) #

EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics (1.0) #

EC334 Advanced Macroeconomics (0.5) #

EC335 Economic Policy in the Global Economy (0.5)

EC338 International Trade (0.5)

EC339 International Macroeconomics (0.5) #

Philosophy Options List

LL306 Theories of Law (0.5)

LL307 Justifying Political Authority (0.5)

LN253 European Literature and Philosophy (1.0) #

LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics (1.0) #

PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5)

PH112 Intermediate Logic and Probability (0.5)

PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0)

PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0)

PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0)

PH223 Mind and Metaphysics (0.5)

PH224 Epistemology (0.5)

PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5)

PH226 Philosophy of Society (0.5) #

PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5)

PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5)

PH236 Set Theory (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PH237 Logic, Machines, and Incompleteness (0.5) #

PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5)

PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5)

PH240 The Ethics of Data and AI (0.5)

PH241 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (0.5)

PH311 Philosophy of Economics (1.0) #

PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5)

PH399 Dissertation in Philosophy (1.0)

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code.

Please note that some course combinations are not allowed. Please see the Mutually Exclusive Options list.

An outside paper may be selected from the Undergraduate Course Guides, subject to the approval of the candidate's tutor and to the successful completion of prerequisites where necessary, with the following exceptions:

- certain first-year courses are not available to students in the second or third year of their degree;
- some courses are not available as an outside option; and
- some papers are mutually exclusive and may therefore not be combined.


The courses available as outside options where regulations permit are:

AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5)

AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5)

AC205 Intermediate Financial Accounting (0.5)

AC206 Intermediate Management Accounting (0.5) #

AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5) #

AC312 Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5) #

AC331 Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting (0.5) #

AC332 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (0.5) #

AC341 Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5)

AC342 Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (0.5)

AN253 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)

AN256 Economic Anthropology (0.5)

AN279 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5)

AN285 Mind and Society (0.5) #

AN287 Environmental Anthropology (0.5)

AN288 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5)

AN290 Anthropology and Religion (0.5)

AN319 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

AN320 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN324 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN336 The Anthropology of Development (0.5)

AN350 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) #

AN358 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

AN363 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN369 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) #

AN376 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5)

AN377 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) #

AN379 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN380 Public Anthropology (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

AN383 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN384 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN389 Body and Senses (0.5)

AN390 Anthropology and Religion (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN392 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

AN395 Digital Anthropology (0.5)

AN3A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5) #

EC1A3 Microeconomics I (0.5) #

EC1A5 Microeconomics I (0.5)

EC1B3 Macroeconomics I (0.5) #

EC1B5 Macroeconomics I (0.5)

EC2A3 Microeconomics II (0.5) #

EC2A5 Microeconomics II (0.5)

EC2B3 Macroeconomics II (0.5) #

EC2B5 Macroeconomics II (0.5)

EC2C3 Econometrics I (0.5) #

EC2C4 Econometrics II (0.5) #

EC302 Political Economy (1.0) #

EC307 Development Economics (1.0) #

EC310 Behavioural Economics (1.0) #

EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0)

EC313 Industrial Economics (1.0) #

EC317 Labour Economics (1.0)

EC319 Games and Economic Behaviour (1.0) #

EC321 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) #

EC325 Public Economics (1.0) #

EC328 Economics of Diversity and Discrimination (0.5) #

EC330 Environmental Economics (1.0) #

EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics (1.0) #

EC334 Advanced Macroeconomics (0.5) #

EC335 Economic Policy in the Global Economy (0.5)

EC336 Econometric Theory A (0.5) #

EC337 Econometric Theory B (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

EC338 International Trade (0.5)

EC339 International Macroeconomics (0.5) #

EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0)

EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0)

EH111 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth (0.5)

EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0)

EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth (1.0) #

EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (1.0) #

EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 (1.0)

EH214 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century (0.5)

EH215 Money and Finance: From the Eighteenth Century to Modernity (0.5)

EH217 Chinese Economic History since 1800: A Chronology (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

EH218 Chinese Economic History since 1800: Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

EH221 Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World (1.0)

EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0)

EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0)

EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

FM101 Finance (0.5)

FM210 Principles of Finance I (0.5) #

FM211 Principles of Finance II (0.5)

FM310 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets I (0.5)

FM311 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets II (0.5)

FM321 Risk Management and Modelling (0.5) #

FM322 Derivatives (0.5) #

GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

GV225 Analytical Politics (1.0) #

GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) #

GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0)

GV262 Contemporary Political Theory (1.0) #

GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0)

GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0)

GV311 British Government (1.0)

GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) #

GV325 Topics in Political Economy: Applications (0.5) #

GV330 Data Science Applications to Politics Research (0.5) #

GV333 Politics of Public Lands (0.5)

GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0)

GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0)

GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0)

GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0)

GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0)

GY204 Political Geography (0.5) #

GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5) #

GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5)

GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) #

GY210 The Economics of Cities (0.5) #

GY211 Introduction to Global Development (0.5)

GY212 Pathways in Human Geography (0.5) #

GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0)

GY224 Science, Technology and Environmental Governance (0.5)

GY307 Regional Economic Development (0.5)

GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GY311 The Political Economy of Urbanisation (0.5)

GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) #

GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) #

GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5)

GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5)

GY317 Geographies of Urban Violence (0.5)

GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5)

GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)

GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5)

GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5)

GY360 Sustainability in Practice (0.5)

HY113 Empires and Resistance in Global History (1.0)

HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0)

HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0)

HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0)

HY221 The History of the Russian Empire, 1676-1825 (1.0)

HY226 The Greater War c. 1912-1923 (1.0)

HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0)

HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0)

HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0)

HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0)

HY245 The United States and the World since 1776 (1.0)

HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0)

HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY248 Britain in the World: British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY249 War, Social Conflict and Nation Building: The History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY250 Britain, Brussels, Bruges & Brexit: Reassessing Four Decades of UK EC/EU Membership (1.0)

HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0)

HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0)

HY319 Napoleon and Europe (1.0)

HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0)

HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0)

HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0)

HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0)

HY331 Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s (1.0)

HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0)

HY333 People and Power in West African History, c. 1450 - 1850 (1.0)

HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c.1539 to the Present (1.0)

HY335 History of Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China, 1949-2008 (1.0)

HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War (1.0)

HY337 Sources for the Subcontinent: The Culture and Politics of South Asia (1.0)

HY344 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

IR200 International Political Ideas: From Theory to Practice (1.0)

IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0)

IR203 International Organisations (1.0) #

IR205 International Security (1.0)

IR206 International Political Economy (1.0)

IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

IR323 Race, Resistance and Decolonisation in International Relations (0.5)

LL106 Public Law (1.0)

LL108 Criminal Law (1.0)

LL143 Tort Law (1.0)

LL203 Company Law (1.0) #

LL204 Advanced Torts (1.0)

LL205 Medical Law (1.0)

LL212 Conflict of Laws (1.0)

LL216 Freedom and the Law in Britain (0.5)

LL217 European Human Rights Law (0.5)

LL220 Technology Law and Regulation (0.5) #

LL221 Family Law (1.0)

LL224 Regulation of Social Media and Online Platforms (0.5)

LL225 Critical Theory and Law (0.5)

LL228 European Union Law (0.5)

LL229 The European Market (0.5)

LL233 Law of Evidence (1.0)

LL241 European Legal History (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

LL243 Constitutionalism Beyond Courts (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

LL244 Sports: Law and Governance (0.5)

LL245 Feminist Legal Theory (0.5)

LL246 Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0)

LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0)

LL257 Employment Law (1.0)

LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

LL276 Property (1.0)

LL279 Public International Law (0.5)

LL280 Advanced Issues in Public International Law (0.5) #

LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice (0.5)

LL285 Theories on Adjudication: Forms, Values, Aspirations (0.5)

LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0)

LL295 Media Law (1.0)

LL300 Competition Law (1.0)

LL303 Cultural Heritage and Art Law (0.5)

LL304 Global Commodities: The Rise of International Law (0.5)

LL306 Theories of Law (0.5)

LL307 Justifying Political Authority (0.5)

LL310 Competition Law (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

LL332 Advanced EU Law (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

LL342 International Protection of Human Rights (1.0) #

LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) #

LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN131 French Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) (1.0) #

LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) (1.0) #

LN250 English Literature and Society (1.0) #

LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) #

LN252 Contemporary Literature and Global Society (1.0) #

LN253 European Literature and Philosophy (1.0) #

LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics (1.0) #

LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0)

LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (suspended 2026/27)

LN341 Mandarin in the Global Workplace (1.0) #

LN342 Academic Chinese for International Relations (1.0) #

LN370 Discourse and Communication (1.0)

MA100 Mathematical Methods (1.0) #

MA102 Mathematical Proof and Analysis (0.5) #

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) #

MA203 Real Analysis (0.5)

MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) #

MA208 Optimisation Theory (0.5) #

MA209 Differential Equations (0.5) #

MA210 Discrete Mathematics (0.5) #

MA211 Algebra and Number Theory (0.5)

MA213 Operations Research Techniques (0.5) #

MA214 Algorithms and Data Structures (0.5) #

MA221 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (0.5) #

MA222 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) (0.5) #

MA301 Mathematical Game Theory (0.5) #

MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5)

MA316 Graph Theory (0.5) #

MA317 Complex Analysis (0.5) #

MA318 History and Culture of Mathematics (0.5) #

MA319 Partial Differential Equations (0.5)

MA320 Mathematics of Networks (0.5)

MA321 Measure Theoretic Probability (0.5)

MA322 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5)

MA324 Mathematical Modelling and Simulation (0.5) #

MA330 Game Theory for Collective Decisions (0.5) #

MA333 Optimisation for Machine Learning (0.5) #

MA336 Mathematics of Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain (0.5) #

MC300 Media, Communication and Power (0.5)

MG205 Econometrics: Theory and Applications (1.0)

MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (0.5)

MG207 Managerial Economics (1.0)

MG209 E-business (0.5)

MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) #

MG212 Marketing (0.5)

MG213 Information Systems (0.5)

MG214 Human Resource Management (0.5)

MG301 Strategy (1.0)

MG302 Topics in Management Research (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MG303 International Business Strategy in the World Economy (0.5)

MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5)

MG307 International Context of Management (0.5)

MG308 Simulations for Managerial Decisions (0.5) #

MG311 Behavioural Science and Group Processes (0.5) #

MG312 Science of People in Workplaces (0.5)

MG316 Brand Strategy (0.5)

MG317 Leading Organisational Change (0.5)

MY101A Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

MY101W Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

MY105A Data for Data Science (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MY105W Data for Data Science (0.5) #

MY202A Machine Learning for Social Scientists (0.5) #

MY202W Machine Learning for Social Scientists (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MY205 Advanced Data Manipulation (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MY360 Quantitative Text Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MY361 Social Network Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0)

PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5)

PH111 Introduction to Logic (0.5)

PH112 Intermediate Logic and Probability (0.5)

PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0)

PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0)

PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0)

PH223 Mind and Metaphysics (0.5)

PH224 Epistemology (0.5)

PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5)

PH226 Philosophy of Society (0.5) #

PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5)

PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5)

PH236 Set Theory (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PH237 Logic, Machines, and Incompleteness (0.5) #

PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5)

PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5)

PH240 The Ethics of Data and AI (0.5)

PH241 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (0.5)

PH311 Philosophy of Economics (1.0) #

PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5)

SO203 Political Sociology (1.0)

SP111 Social Economics and Policy (1.0) #

SP112 Politics of Social Policy Making (1.0)

SP210 Development and Social Change (1.0)

SP230 Education Policy (1.0)

SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0)

SP232 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0)

SP314 Racial Inequalities and Social Policies (0.5)

SP315 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5)

SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5)

SP332 Social Security Policies (0.5)

SP333 NGOs, Social Policy and Development (0.5)

SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5)

SP336 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)

SP343 Social Policy of Climate Change (0.5)

SP372 Punishment and Penal Policy (0.5)

SP373 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5)

SP374 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST101 Programming for Data Science (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST101A Programming for Data Science (0.5)

ST101W Programming for Data Science (0.5)

ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory (1.0) #

ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) #

ST109 Elementary Statistical Theory I (0.5) #

ST110 Elementary Statistical Theory II (0.5) #

ST115 Managing and Visualising Data (0.5) #

ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (0.5) #

ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (0.5) #

ST206 Probability and Distribution Theory (0.5) #

ST207 Databases (0.5) #

ST211 Applied Regression (0.5) #

ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5)

ST216 Statistical Inference (0.5) #

ST226 Mathematics for Finance and Investment (0.5) #

ST227 Survival Models (0.5) #

ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models (0.5) #

ST301 Actuarial Mathematics (Life) (0.5)

ST302 Stochastic Processes (0.5)

ST303 Stochastic Simulation (0.5) #

ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (0.5) #

ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General) (0.5)

ST307 Aspects of Market Research (0.5) #

ST308 Bayesian Inference (0.5) #

ST310 Machine Learning (0.5) #

ST311 Artificial Intelligence (0.5) #

ST313 Ethics for Data Science (0.5) #

ST314 Multilevel and Longitudinal Models (0.5) #

ST326 Financial Statistics (0.5) #

ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach (1.0)

ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance (1.0)

Footnote for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

A: The following courses can be taken in Year 3 only:

B:

  • AC311, AC312, AC331, AC332, AC341, AC342

C:

  • EC311, EC328, EC330

D:

  • GV311, GV313, GV324, GV325, GV330, GV333

E:

  • MA321, MA322, MA336

F:

  • MG301, MG302, MG303

G:

  • SP314, SP315, SP331, SP332, SP333, SP335, SP336, SP343, SP372, SP373, SP374

H:

  • ST303, ST311, ST313, ST314, ST326 

I: The following courses are not available to third year students:

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Paper 3, PH103: PH103 includes a supplementary five week Philosophy and Argumentative Writing Seminar.

B: Paper 15: Selection from the Government, Philosophy or Economics Options Lists is subject to timetabling constraints.

C: Paper 16: Courses selected from the Undergraduate Outside Options List require permission. Selection from the Undergraduate Outside Options List is subject to timetabling constraints.

D: Paper 16: Selection from the Government, Philosophy or Economics Options Lists is subject to timetabling constraints.

E: Philosophy Options List, PH105: PH105 can be taken in Year 2 only.

F: Philosophy Options List, PH399: PH399 cannot be taken in Year 1 or Year 2.

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.