Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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Normally 60 credit points from: | ||||
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues | POLI30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Empire | POLI30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Justice between generations | POLI30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Political Violence | POLI30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Political Economy of China | POLI30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
New Labour and After | POLI30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
European Foreign Policy | POLI30014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Europe in Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives | POLI30015 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
US Foreign Policy | POLI30017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Secrecy, The State and Me | POLI30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Ethnic Politics | POLI30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
How to Win a Political Argument | POLI30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Feminisms, Gender and International Relations | POLI30021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Contemporary British Parliament | POLI31336 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Politics of Gender | POLI31351 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Popular Culture and World Politics | POLI31378 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa | POLI31381 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Military in Everyday Life | POLI31382 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Democracy, Dictatorship and Post-Communism | POLI31383 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Critical Security Studies | POLI31384 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Dissertation | POLI31555 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Politics of the Environment | POLI31556 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Peacebuilding: Theory and Practice | POLI31557 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
States and Markets | POLI31559 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Politics of Contemporary India | POLI31563 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Britain and the European Union | POLI31565 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Public Opinion and Democracy | SOCI30072 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Religion and Politics in the West | SOCI30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Inside Science | SOCI30096 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Risk, Danger and Disaster | SOCI30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Students select either three Social Policy units, or the Dissertation unit and one Social Policy unit, from the list below. Not all units are offered in each session. | ||||
Dissertation (Social Policy) | SPOL30017 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Personal Welfare Services | SPOL30053 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Education and Society | SPOL30028 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Gender based Violence | SPOL30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The State of Welfare | SPOL30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Urban Governance and Democracy | SPOL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Students who were abroad in the second year and so did not take all mandatory second year units, must include appropriately from: | ||||
Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Social Policy and Politics (BSc) | 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).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Students doing a dissertation must have taken a research methods unit in the second year. Students cannot undertake two dissertations.