BSc in Politics and Philosophy
Programme Code: UBPOLPH
Department: Government
For all first, second and third year students in 2016-17
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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 |
Reason Knowledge and Values: 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 (n/a 16/17) | |
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Or PH220 Scientific Method and Policy (n/a 16/17) | |
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 | |
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 | |
GV303 |
From Empire to Globalisation (withdrawn 16/17) |
Global Public Policy (H (n/a 16/17) | |
Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H) (n/a 16/17) | |
Leadership in the Political World (H) | |
Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective | |
British Government | |
Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (n/a 16/17) | |
Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective | |
Empirical Research in Government (n/a 16/17) | |
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) | |
Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H) | |
African Political Economy (H) | |
Political Economy of the Developing World |
Philosophy List
Jurisprudence (third year only) | |
European Literature and Society | |
Philosophy of Science | |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences | |
Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (n/a 16/17) | |
Philosophy, Morals and Politics | |
Set Theory and Further Logic | |
Scientific Method and Policy (n/a 16/17) | |
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) | |
Global Justice (H) (n/a 16/17) | |
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) | |
Dissertation in Philosophy (third year only) |