Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Introductory course

PP407 Pre-Sessional Coding and Mathematics Bootcamp (0.0)

Paper 1

PP440 Micro and Macro Economics (for Public Policy) (1.0)

Or

Upon satisfactorily demonstrating prior knowledge of Micro and Macro Economics, students may be exempted from PP440 and will be free to take an additional unit of option course subject to the approval of the Programme Director.

Paper 2

PP478 Political Science for Public Policy (1.0)

Paper 3

PP455 Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis (1.0)

Paper 4

PP422 Data Science for Public Policy (1.0) ^#

Paper 5

PP4B5 Capstone Project: MPA - Data Science for Public Policy (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

Paper 6

PP415 Technology, Data Science and Policy (0.5) ^#

Paper 7

1.0 or 1.5 unit(s) from Public Policy:

HP434 Methods and Data for Health Systems Performance Assessment (0.5)

MA402 Mathematical Game Theory (0.5) ^{# *}

PP406 Philosophy for Public Policy (0.5)

PP410 Public Economics for Public Policy (0.5) ^#

PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5)

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)

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

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

PP414W Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

PP416 Beyond the policy cycle: how theory explains practice (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

PP417A The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

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)

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)

PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) ^#

PP452 Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy (0.5) ^#

PP454 Development Economics (1.0) ^#

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

PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5)

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)  (not available 2023/24)

PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)

PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0)

Paper 8

1.0 or 1.5 unit(s) from Data Sciences: ^A

MA407 Algorithms and Computation (0.5) ^{# *}

MA423 Fundamentals of Operations Research (0.5) ^{# *}

MY459 Quantitative Text Analysis (0.5) ^{# B}

MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5)

MY474 Applied Machine Learning for Social Science (0.5) ^#

ST416 Multilevel Modelling (0.5) ^{# *}

ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) ^{# *}

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (0.5) ^{# *}

ST446 Distributed Computing for Big Data (0.5) ^{# *}

ST449 Artificial Intelligence (0.5) ^*

ST454 Bayesian Data Analysis (0.5) ^{# *}

ST455 Reinforcement Learning (0.5) ^{# *}

ST456 Deep Learning (0.5) ^{# *}

MY472 Data for Data Scientists (0.5) ¹ or

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data (0.5) ^{# 2 *}