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Admissions

UCAS Course Code: L0V0

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 260
Applications shortlisted for interview: 45.9%
Successful applications: 15.6%

Open days

26 and 27 June, and 20 September 2013
Prospective applicants are welcome to visit the Manor Road Building during open days. 

Contact details

For general information about applying to study PPE, please
visit the PPE website,
email ppeadmissions@socsci.ox.ac.uk
or call +44 (0) 1865 288564. However, if you have specific questions about the course
content for each of the three subjects, please contact the relevant department below.

 

Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy,
10 Merton Street,
Oxford OX1 4JJ
+44 (0) 1865 276926
Please email us at enquiries@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
View Philosophy website


Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations,
Manor Road Building,
Oxford OX1 3UQ
+44 (0) 1865 278705
Please email us at ug.studies@politics.ox.ac.uk
View Politics website


Economics
Department of Economics,
Manor Road Building,
Oxford OX1 3UQ
+44 (0) 1865 271098
Please email us at econundergrad@economics.ox.ac.uk
View Economics website

 

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

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A typical weekly timetable

Your work is divided between lectures (six to eight a week), tutorials and classes (typically two tutorials or one tutorial and one class a week), and private study mainly spent preparing essays for tutorials and classes.

1st year

Courses

All three branches of PPE are studied equally

Philosophy:

  • General philosophy

  • Moral philosophy

  • Elementary logic

Politics:

  • Theorising the democratic state

  • Analysis of democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States

Economics:

  • Microeconomics: the functioning of the market economy

  • Macroeconomics: dealing with national output and employment, exchange rates and policy issues

  • Mathematical techniques used in economics

Assessment

First University examinations: Three written papers
2nd and 3rd years

Compulsory core subjects:

Students choose to continue with all three branches or concentrate on any two, taking compulsory courses in the chosen branches along with optional courses:

Compulsory core courses:

  • Philosophy: Ethics, and either Early modern philosophy; or Knowledge and reality; or Plato’s Republic; or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

  • Politics (any two of these): Comparative government; British politics and government since 1900; Theory of politics; International relations; Political sociology

  • Economics: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Quantitative Economics

Optional courses:

  • More than 50 choices, including: Post-Kantian philosophy; Later Wittgenstein; Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; Political thought: Plato to Rousseau; International economics; Economics of developing countries (see www.ppe.ox.ac.uk for the full list of optional PPE papers); Philosophy and economics of the environment

Assessment

Final University examinations: Eight written papers, one of which can be replaced by a thesis

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