| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
| Theories of International Relations | POLI10003 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
| 40 credit points from: | ||||
| Rational Choice | POLI21203 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Development Studies | POLI21213 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Co-operation and Integration In Europe | POLI21214 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Politics and Policy-Making in the UK | POLI21222 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Democracy and US Government | POLI21226 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa | POLI21231 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Politics of South Asia | POLI29003 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| International Organisations and Global Governance | POLI20003 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Principles of Quantitative Social Science | SOCI20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data | POLI20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Contemporary Political Theory | POLI22202 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Contemporary International Relations | POLI20002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia | POLI29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| NGO Development & Practice | POLI20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Understanding Genocide | POLI20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| The History of Western Political Thought | POLI20007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Apocalypse or Ecotopia? Green Political Thought | POLI20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Students select 40 credit points from the following list: | ||||
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL20030 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL20051 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL20053 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL20052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Drugs and Society | SPOL21011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Introduction to Disability Studies | SPOL20018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Urban Governance and Democracy | SPOL20028 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Youth Policy and Social Welfare | SPOL22022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Education and Society | SPOL20020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Gender Based Violence | SPOL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Public Management | EFIM20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The State of Welfare | SPOL20027 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Diploma of Higher Education | 120 | |||
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
Please note that the one politics unit that you didn't choose from the optional list in year 1 must be taken in year 2.
Students who wish to take the Social Policy Dissertation unit in the final year must select SOAD20004.
Most Social Policy optional units are approved at, and available at, both level I/5 and level H/6. The title of each unit is the same. Optional units are usually a run in alternate years so that each student will have the opportunity to choose to study that title at one or other level. In the event that a title is run in two successive years, a student may not select it in both years. So, for example, a student who has taken SPOL21008 Changing Families and the State, may not select SPOL31008 Changing Families and the State, even if it is available in their third year.
Students who spend part of this year abroad, and so miss one of the mandatory Social Policy units will be expected either to select an appropriate replacement unit as part of their study abroad, or to take the corresponding third year unit in the following year.
Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
For further information and a definition of must pass units and conditional progression please see the Glossary of Terms.
